by Máiri Demings | Sep 18, 2025
From RCM’s website: Extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra present an Italian comedic double bill in Koerner Hall: Rossini’s La cambiale di matrimonio and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi....
by Angie Bell | Jul 21, 2025
From Opera McGill’s Website: Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” & Ching’s “Buoso’s Ghost”, November 7, 8, and 9 at the Segal Centre studio space in Montreal, Quebec; Stephen Hargreaves, music director & Patrick Hansen, stage...
by Kenneth DeLong | Apr 7, 2025 | Featured, Reviews
Calgary Opera’s final offering of its 2024/25 season consisted of a double bill of two one-act operas, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. While these two operas occupy different sound worlds, both received their first performances in the same...
by Angie Bell | Aug 5, 2024
Text from the Calgary Opera website: In Bluebeard’s Castle, the newly-married Judith discovers seven locked doors in the castle of her husband, Duke Bluebeard, prompting her quest to uncover his dark and mysterious past, one door at a time. In Gianni Schicchi, the...
by Joseph So | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured, Reviews
It has been the longest silence in COC history. To opera-starved audience members like yours truly, it felt interminable. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last time the COC put opera on their mainstage was with Barber of Seville and Hansel & Gretel, way back in...
