Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Anna Bolena struggles to ignite dramatic sparks
There are operas whose musical and dramatic brilliance does not show signs of ever running out, hundreds of years into their production history. Then there are operas which make you wonder if the art form is deader than a museum piece.
Review: Toronto Operetta Theatre’s season-ending Beautiful Helen a rip-roaring Grecian romp
Toronto Operetta Theatre ends its 17/18 season with the popular French operetta, La belle Hélène...
Review: Pacific Opera Victoria’s Rinaldo the original operatic mashup!
The creators of recent mashups of history and science fiction or literature and fantasy, such as...
Review: Edmonton Opera’s “theatrically ambitious and uncompromising” Don Giovanni
It took a while to understand why the Edmonton Opera season-ending production of Mozart’s Don...
Review: Canadian Opera Company’s Nightingale “Parable on the supremacy of nature over artifice? Not so fast.”
Canadian Opera Company’s nine-year-old production of Stravinsky’s shorts, The Nightingale and...
Review: Canadian divas Jane Archibald & Adrianne Pieczonka conquer Carnegie Hall
It must have been a simple coincidence that the English Concert’s semi-staged Rinaldo happened on...
