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...
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...
