The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Aparna Halpé 30/04/2018 It was with something akin to despair that I realized I was coming down with the flu two days before opening night for the COC’s revival of the famed ...
Contemporaneity 2.0 Aparna Halpé 21/02/2018 What would truth and reconciliation look like, sound like, feel like, if it arrived through the body-knowledge of Indigenous, Black and Of Colour arti...
Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018 The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first glance, seems replete...
Rigoletto Aparna Halpé 30/01/2018 Alexander Neef, General Director of the COC, describes Verdi’s Rigoletto as “incendiary”. He situates this production within a historical moment where...
Arabella Aparna Halpé 16/10/2017 The COC begins its 2017 season with a magnificent premier of Richard Strauss’s well beloved Arabella.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf Aparna Halpé 15/05/2017 Somebody asked me today what to see in Toronto, and my answer was immediate: “ You have to see Djanet Sears new production of Colored Girls!”
Louis Riel Aparna Halpé 30/04/2017 Canada is 150 years old, and we celebrate this nation’s many evolutions...
Split Screen Stereophonic Aparna Halpé 24/02/2017 Peggy Baker Dance Projects’ Split Screen Stereophonic reprises four masterworks from the company’s recent repertoire. While each piece has its distinc...
Ariodante Aparna Halpé 24/10/2016 There really is only one word that can describe the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Handel’s Ariodante: Wow. We’re not talking about hig...
Macbeth Aparna Halpé 30/08/2016 As the lights went down in the Festival Theater, expectations were high. The venue was packed to capacity as this Canadian summer ritual enfolded. The...
