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...
The Unplugging Alia Somani 21/03/2015 The Unplugging, written by Algonquin playwright Yvette Nolan, is not a play driven by action. It’s about dialogue. Most importantly, it’s theatre that...
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...
Hercules Aparna Halpé 17/04/2014 When Peter Sellars was commissioned to reprise his 2011 production of Handel's Hercules for the Canadian Opera Company, I expected the effect to be po...
A Masked Ball Aparna Halpé 09/02/2014 “Are you enjoying the performance?” “The singing!” This snippet of conversation, overheard in the foyer of the Four Seasons Centre during the fi...
