Opera Review – Werther (Canadian Opera Company)
A pristine production musically and visually, but one that is missing the necissary sweeping romantic emotional core.
Johannes Debus
Canadian Opera Company Spring Season 2026/Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung
A stunning evening, both musically and visually, of two early 20th century opera masterpieces, originally staged by Robert Lepage. Not to be missed.
Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company Winter Season – A Tale of Two Visions (Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Verdi’s A Masked Ball)
This is the age of the auteur opera director. With the endlessly repeating standard repertoire a fact of opera life, companies are now searching for productions that give a fresh take on the classics. New opera, of course, is always going to be fresh. Thus, directors and their visions are what drive opera productions these days. The […]
Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company’s The Tales of Hoffmann
The first act of the COC’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann is worth the price of admission. English director Lee Blakeley has done such a brilliant job with Olympia (Andriana Chuchman), that we can forgive the messy Guilietta (Keri Alkema) act, and puzzling Prologue and Epilogue. His Antonia (Erin Wall) act falls somewhere in between […]