Friday, November 29, 2019
Operatic update on Mozart — with another gender tweak this time around — sets up at Enoch Turner Schoolhouse.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 06:00AMSaturday, October 12, 2019
Against the Grain Theatre’s new “La Bohème” resets the tragic boy-meets-terminally-ill-girl in modern-day Toronto, complete with references to shopping on Bloor St and friends texting…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:52PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Director takes female empowerment seriously in Canadian Opera Company season opener.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, June 7, 2019
Isaiah Bell’s Toronto show hits universal notes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:41AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Soprano Angel Blue excels as Mimi in traditional production that’s still impressive. Well, except the wigs.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:30AMSaturday, April 6, 2019
Against the Grain produces great staging of a strange opera.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 04:00PMFriday, April 5, 2019
Opera Atelier’s move does production no favours.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 11:55AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
The Tapestry Opera-Theatre Passe Muraille co-production has spiky-yet-musical score with clever ensemble singing, and there’s no place else you can hear singers handle lyrics like “those…
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 10:00PMSunday, October 14, 2018
Hadrian’s worst sin is in how seriously it takes itself and how slowly and ponderously everything moves, John Terauds writes.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:17PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Bass-baritone makes his case for kindness in the Russian aristocrat.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:00PMSaturday, June 23, 2018
The Icelandic musician is coming to Toronto with a string quartet and percussionist for Luminato at the Elgin Theatre on June 24.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 09:00AMMonday, June 11, 2018
Move adding 700 seats nightly to company’s potential audience will come in spring of 2019.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:34PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Strong singing is the backbone of compelling Canadian Opera Company production, bringing the doomed story of Anne Boleyn to dramatic life.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:49PMFriday, March 30, 2018
It’s a must-see for anyone who appreciates good writing, brilliant orchestration and great stagecraft but fails to make a human connection, writes John Terauds.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AMFriday, February 16, 2018
The show was first presented at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris. Now it was Toronto’s turn to see a show worthy of any royal palace in the world.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 03:34PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Tapestry Opera's offering is too abstract to really engage us with the characters, writes John Terauds, but the fresh ideas and Persian-flavoured music are both to be applauded.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:23PMThursday, February 8, 2018
Efforts to modernize Mozart’s tale overwhelm and wreck it instead.
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 01:01PMSaturday, January 20, 2018
In recent months, we've confronted the self-entitlement of so many men. Yet we continue to hum “La donna e mobile."
SOURCE: Toronto Star at 07:00AM 
