One fancifully sinister scene in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2021-22 performance of ‘La Traviata’ encapsulates why we return to the opera time and time again
The Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?
If we can have opera as funny and contemporary as ‘A Little Too Cozy’—’Cosi fan tutti,’ get it?—who needs Mozart at all?
Uncle John, an outdoorsy reinterpretation of ‘Don Giovanni’ in Banff, shows there’s hope yet for opera
The talented mezzo soprano received criticism for her body type, not her performance
A turn at the Met has made an opera superstar out of B.C.-born Simone Osborne
After a crackling European tour, Katie Stelmanis and her band—Austra—liven things up
His music is among classical’s best known, and best loved. Still, Verdi can’t seem to get our respect.
10 did it for Boléro, now Fifty Shades is giving a 16th-century composition a bounce
Critics have been harsh over the Quebec director’s crack at the fantasy opera.
Musicals are making an appearance on opera stages: be careful what you pick.
Hardly anyone has heard the whole opera—well, except for the ‘Lone Ranger’ bit.