Armide Aparna Halpé 26/10/2015 How apt that Opera Atelier has chosen to open its 30th anniversary season with its faultless Armide. Brought first to Toronto's Elgin Theatre in 2012 ...
Anton Piatigorsky in conversation with Aparna Halpé Aparna Halpé 29/05/2015 Anton Piatigorsky is an award winning writer of plays, librettos and short fiction. Anton is the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore prizes for best new...
The Dybbuk Aparna Halpé 24/05/2015 At the end of Soulpepper's world premier of The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, the audience leapt to its feet, giving the entire cast a standing ovati...
Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung Aparna Halpé 09/05/2015 Fierce, obsessive, passionate, and confounding, Robert Lepage's famed production of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, and Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartun...
Orpheus Aparna Halpé 15/04/2015 Opera Atelier’s production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice is a delight precisely because it brings back a pristine, classical approach to opera in k...
Heidi Melton in conversation with Aparna Halpé Aparna Halpé 13/02/2015 American Dramatic Soprano, Heidi Melton, is in Toronto singing Sieglinde for the Canadian Opera Company's production of Die Walküre which runs until F...
Die Walküre Aparna Halpé 03/02/2015 The Canadian Opera Company's magnificent remounting of their 2006 production of Wagner's Die Walküreis a striking example of Toronto's steady coming-...
Arcadia Aparna Halpé 16/11/2014 Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is arguably about the nature of genius (among other things), but sadly the genius in tonight's production, with a few exception...
Alcina Aparna Halpé 27/10/2014 Opera Atelier's Canadian Premiere of Handel's Alcina meets every expectation that we have of the company – it is sexy, smart, visually delightful, and...
King Lear Aparna Halpé 24/06/2014 As I sit down to write this review, I remember the gut wrenching howl rising from the depths of a human soul as an old man staggers forward carrying h...