Escaped Alone Aparna Halpé 06/11/2018 The set for the Canadian premiere of Caryl Churchill’s 2016 one-act play Escaped Alone—a spare, well-lit rectangle of floor space flanked on both side...
Hadrian Aparna Halpé 22/10/2018 The Canadian Opera Company’s new commission, Hadrian, proves without doubt that Contemporary Canadian Opera is alive and very well indeed. Hadrian ...
Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 11/10/2018 It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight. The minimalist productio...
Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 04/10/2018 It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight. The minimalist productio...
Coriolanus Aparna Halpé 11/07/2018 One might dub 2018 the year of Robert Lepage. March saw the reprisal of his spectacular production for the Canadian Opera Company, The Nightingale and...
The Tempest Aparna Halpé 15/06/2018 Whether you are a child, a casual visitor to the theatre, or a Shakespeare buff, Antoni Cimolino’s new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest will de...
Anna Bolena Aparna Halpé 13/05/2018 The COC wraps up Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy with a new production of Anna Bolena, the tragic bel canto opera based loosely on the life of Anne Boleyn. ...
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...
