Review: Edmonton’s Mercury Opera La Bohème offers “emotional penetration”
Edmonton’s Mercury Opera prides itself on being a maverick enterprise, taking grand opera into...
Review: Robert Gleadow in “thrilling voice” in Paris Opera’s Il primo omicidio
Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio (1707), recounts the first murder in the history of...
Review: Vancouver Opera creates a “visually and vocally memorable” La Bohème
Every opera I have ever seen staged by the director/designer team of Renaud Doucet and André Barbe...
Review: Pacific Opera Victoria’s roaring 20s La traviata
It’s Valentine’s Day and what better thing to do than watch poor, consumptive Violetta Valéry take...
Review: Canadian Opera Company tackles ‘paradoxical’ Cosí fan tutte
The final Mozart-Da Ponte collaboration, 1790’s Cosí fan tutte, o sia La Scuola degli Amanti...
Review: Die Walküre times two at TSO and LPO
Experiencing two concert presentations of Wagner’s Die Walküre within a week on two different...
