Sunday, September 14, 2025 from Boulezian
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Saturday, September 13, 2025 from operaramblings
Tapestry Opera has announced its first full season since leaving the Distillery District and it looks like “back to the future”. Most of the usual (much missed) stuff is there. So here’s the line up: October 16th-19th...Friday, September 12, 2025 from operaramblings
Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin is a rarity. It’s a serious play with an overwhelmingly female ensemble cast that looks at issues of class, gender, power and authority almost entirely through a female lens. It’s hard...Tuesday, September 9, 2025 from operaramblings
My review of the Château de Versailles Spectacles recording of Rameau’s Pygmalion and Iso’s Zémide featuring, among others, Ema Nikolovska is now up at Opera Canada.Tuesday, September 9, 2025 from Boulezian
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Monday, September 8, 2025 from operaramblings
Songs of Passion is a new recording from mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre with the Jupiter Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble and their director and lutenist Thomas Dunford. It’s ninety minutes of music by John Dowland and Henry Purcell...Monday, September 8, 2025 from parterre box
Restrictions encourage creative staging, for which the Berkshire Opera Festival is renowned.Monday, September 8, 2025 from parterre box
One of the most exciting things in prospect next season is Lise Davidsen ‘s role debut as Isolde, to take place in Barcelona in January.Sunday, September 7, 2025 from operaramblings
On Friday evening Toronto’s Diapente Renaissance Quintet [1] combined with Montreal based medieval music ensemble Comtessa [2] to create an intriguing programme at St. Thomas’ Anglican. The concert was titled Across the...Saturday, September 6, 2025 from The Opera Tattler
Saturday, September 6, 2025 from operaramblings
My review of Andrew Staniland’s highly experimental The Laws of Nature is now available at La Scena Musicale.Saturday, September 6, 2025 from parterre box
The announcement that the increasingly Trump-annexed Kennedy Center would be presenting Robert Ward ‘s The Crucible seemed too on-the-nose to be true.Friday, September 5, 2025 from parterre box
Chris’s Cache celebrates Karita Mattila , one of its favorite singers, in a special double-bill featuring the soprano performing Janáček , one of her signature composers.Friday, September 5, 2025 from parterre box
The moral stench seeps through Peter Gelb ‘s decision to partner with the Saudi government, but what new sources of funding for the Met don’t have red flags?Friday, September 5, 2025 from operaramblings
My review of Il Pomo d’Oro’s CD of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Joyce DiDonato as the Queen of Carthage is now available at La Scena Musicale.