Review: Calgary Opera’s “excellent” Roméo et Juliette plus announcement of new management
Calgary Opera opened its new season in daring fashion on Nov. 17th with a bold and expensive...
Review: Against the Grain Theatre’s Bound v. 2: “no less powerful or radical for its simplicity”
Against the Grain Theatre’s Bound v.2 (seen Nov. 19th) is opera for our times. Handel arias and...
Review: ICOT’s The Journey: Notes of Hope is a moving story about migration, re-discovery and self-acceptance
There have been many stories told in every art form of late about immigration, migration and...
Review: L’Opéra de Montréal’s Das Rheingold offers a Steampunk Gothic aesthetic and a “formidable” Alberich in Nathan Berg
As the most compact of the Ring operas —clocking in at a trifling two-and-a-half hours— Das...
Review: At Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovksy is the “most complete…Tosca of the past two or three decades”
There’s almost always a certain splashy excitement attendant on a new production’s opening night,...
Review: Wexford 2018 “yielded many an unexpected pleasure” while some elements “felt out of place”
I’m an unabashed admirer of verismo opera, but I freely admit having qualms when Wexford announced...
