Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018 2855The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Aparna Halpé 30/01/2018 3259Alexander Neef, General Director of the COC, describes Verdi’s Rigoletto as “incendiary”. He situates this production within a historical moment...
Reviewer's Rating Arabella Aparna Halpé 16/10/2017 3167The COC begins its 2017 season with a magnificent premier of Richard Strauss’s well beloved Arabella.
Reviewer's Rating For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf Aparna Halpé 15/05/2017 4011Somebody asked me today what to see in Toronto, and my answer was immediate: “ You have to see Djanet Sears new production of Colored Girls!”
Reviewer's Rating Louis Riel Aparna Halpé 30/04/2017 3532Canada is 150 years old, and we celebrate this nation’s many evolutions...
Reviewer's Rating Split Screen Stereophonic Aparna Halpé 24/02/2017 2909Peggy Baker Dance Projects’ Split Screen Stereophonic reprises four masterworks from the company’s recent repertoire. While each piece has its...
Reviewer's Rating Ariodante Aparna Halpé 24/10/2016 4193here really is only one word that can describe the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Handel’s Ariodante: Wow. We’re...
Reviewer's rating Macbeth Aparna Halpé 30/08/2016 3438s the lights went down in the Festival Theater, expectations were high. The venue was packed to capacity as this...
Reviewer's rating The Merry Wives of Windsor Rebecca Coates 27/07/2016 3035here is a reason why The Merry Wives of Windsor is not one of Shakespeare’s most-loved plays, nor one of...
Reviewer's Rating The Dybbuk Aparna Halpé 24/05/2015 5627t the end of Soulpepper’s world premier of The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, the audience leapt to its feet,...
