Review: Vancouver Opera’s La Cenerentola is “three hours of irresistible, effervescent fun”
Vancouver Opera’s production of Giacomo Rossini’s La Cenerentola (seen May 1st) hardly put a foot...
Review: COC’s Otello features “one of the best Iagos of the current generation”
Arrigo Boito, the redoubtable 19th-century Italian poet and Verdi’s best known librettist,...
Commentary: Opera Atelier’s Idomeneo: Mozart’s neo-classical grand opera
There has been little if no question over the years that Mozart's opera seria, Idomeneo (1781), is...
Review: Against the Grain Theatre & Vivier’s Kopernikus: technology takes on ritual
Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) opened Claude Vivier’s Kopernikus: A Ritual Opera for the Dead on...
Review: Joyce El-Khoury in Welsh National Opera’s Roberto Devereux
Of course it is a gross simplification to say that Donizetti is all about the singing; but the...
Review: Christopher Dunham embodies Don Giovanni for SOLO
On Mar. 2, Southern Ontario Lyric Opera produced a fully staged production of Don Giovanni. Under...