Aparna Halpé is Professor of English at Centennial College, Toronto, Canada. Aparna holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Toronto, and has a life long love of the performing arts fostered by her early training in music, dance and theater. In addition to her scholarly work, Aparna is a published poet and founding member of the tango ensemble Ruta 7.
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 is an award winning writer of plays, librettos and short fiction. Anton is the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore prizes for best new...
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...
Fierce, obsessive, passionate, and confounding, Robert Lepage's famed production of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, and Arnold Schoenberg's Erwartun...
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...
American Dramatic Soprano, Heidi Melton, is in Toronto singing Sieglinde for the Canadian Opera Company's production of Die Walküre which runs until F...
The Canadian Opera Company's magnificent remounting of their 2006 production of Wagner's Die Walküreis a striking example of Toronto's steady coming-...
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...
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...
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...
