POV’s Flight: retro take on deeply human tales
POV's Flight, English composer Jonathan Dove’s 1998 collaboration with librettist April De...
Hansel & Gretel at the COC: Making magic of the mundane
Far too many recent adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairy tales adhere to the belief that the ideal...
COC’s Hansel and Gretel takes up tenancy
The COC's Hansel & Gretel (seen Feb. 6th) gives Englebert Humperdinck’s classic 1893 opera a...
Barber of Seville at the COC: Take Two!
Romeo and Juliet should have had Figaro the Barber helping them to escape and run away together...
Written on Skin at Opéra de Montréal: A Cold Fascination
With Written on Skin, composer George Benjamin and librettist Martin Crimp have fashioned a svelte...
The Barber of Seville at COC: money talks
There is one thing a Count and a hairdresser share, something that has the power to unite them...