Canadian Opera Company
Should Canadian opera fix Mozart’s casual racism?
Critics are split on Wajdi Mouawad’s recasting of Mozart’s The Abduction. Can modern playwrights rewrite the classics for the 21st century?
The real challenges of reviving a Louis Riel opera
The Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?
What an opera review spiked by the National Post really tells us
A critic on the incident that has the international music world in a flap—and the troubling truth about art criticism in our times
Bramwell Tovey on how Canadian opera excludes Canadians
Alexander Neef’s eyes are trained on Europe, not his own country
A bit of a shock at the Canadian Opera Company
Peter Sellars takes a new direction to Tristan und Isolde
Richard Nixon, Opera Superstar
‘Nixon in China,’ once derided as ‘a novelty item,’ has turned out to be a modern classic
The controversial opera cities love
No one seems to admire Wagner, but nicer artists just don’t have the same cultural clout
Why the COC’s betting on the house
The Canadian Opera Company’s Alexander Neef talks about what he has to live up to