Reviewer's Rating Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung Aparna Halpé 09/05/2015ierce, obsessive, passionate, and confounding, Robert Lepage’s famed production of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung comes home...
Reviewer's Rating Orpheus Aparna Halpé 15/04/2015pera Atelier’s production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice is a delight precisely because it brings back a pristine, classical approach...
Reviewer's Rating The Unplugging Alia Somani 21/03/2015he Unplugging, written by Algonquin playwright Yvette Nolan, is not a play driven by action. It’s about dialogue. Most importantly,...
Die Walküre Aparna Halpé 03/02/2015he Canadian Opera Company’s magnificent remounting of their 2006 production of Wagner’s Die Walküreis a striking example of Toronto’s steady...
Reviewer's Rating Arcadia Aparna Halpé 16/11/2014om Stoppard’s Arcadia is arguably about the nature of genius (among other things), but sadly the genius in tonight’s production,...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Aparna Halpé 27/10/2014pera Atelier’s Canadian Premiere of Handel’s Alcina meets every expectation that we have of the company – it is sexy,...
King Lear Aparna Halpé 24/06/2014s I sit down to write this review, I remember the gut wrenching howl rising from the depths of a...
Hercules Aparna Halpé 17/04/2014hen Peter Sellars was commissioned to reprise his 2011 production of Handel’s Hercules for the Canadian Opera Company, I expected...
A Masked Ball Aparna Halpé 09/02/2014“re you enjoying the performance?” “The singing!” This snippet of conversation, overheard in the foyer of the Four Seasons Centre...
