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...
Review: Edmonton Opera’s Hansel and Gretel “enchanting and appropriately ghoulish”
There was a time when ‘opera’ implied a notion of music that unabashedly included the expectation...
Review: Gerald Finley brings an “aching pathos” to Metropolitan Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle
To see or not to see: that’s the question posed by Metropolitan Opera’s intriguing pairing of...
Review: L’Opéra de Montréal’s Champion offers redemption…in black and blue
What makes a man? His wins? His losses? His mistakes and regrets? His memories? Is it in how he...
Review: Canadian Opera Company Elektra “a rare theatrical perfect storm”
Best productions of Elektra have a lead singer who can make the jagged vocal score sound...
