Review: La Cenerentola, Opéra de Montréal, Nov. 11, 2017
Nowadays, it seems even stagings of comic operas are enamored with minimalism, skewing toward a...
Review: L’enfant et les sortilèges & Trouble in Tahiti, Opera North, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Nov. 2 & 3, 2017
It would be difficult to imagine a more hard-working company than Britain’s Opera North. To...
Review: Singing Stars: The Next Generation—IRCPA, Nov. 6, 2017
At Zoomer Hall (the performing space of 96.3 New Classical FM) on Nov. 6, I had the pleasure of...
Review: Calixa Lavallée’s The Widow, Toronto Operetta Theatre, Nov. 5, 2018
Is Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow really Canadian at all? Marketed as Canada’s own ‘Merry’ Widow,...
Review: Missing, City Opera Vancouver, Nov. 3, 2017
Missing, a co-commission by City Opera Vancouver and Pacific Opera Victoria, opened at Vancouver’s...
Review: New Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato) John Nelson, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux...
