Opera Review – Opera 5 Festival 2026/ Parélios and Puccini Double Bill
Opera 5’s annual Opera Featival was a triumphal pairing of Puccini’s Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi with the new Canadian opera Parélios.
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Opera Review – Werther (Canadian Opera Company)
A pristine production musically and visually, but one that is missing the necissary sweeping romantic emotional core.
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.
Canadian Opera Company/Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice
There is nothing more to be said than this. The Canadian Opera Company’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is simply perfect.
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 […]