Otello Aparna Halpé 01/05/2019 I will readily admit that Otello is my personal favorite of all Verdi operas. The magnificent choruses, searing ensembles, and tender arias, all frame...
La Bohème Aparna Halpé 19/04/2019 La Bohème Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Canadian Opera Company Directed by John Caird Cast (in order of appearanc...
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...
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 ...
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...
Heidi Melton in conversation with Aparna Halpé Aparna Halpé 13/02/2015 American Dramatic Soprano, Heidi Melton, is in Toronto singing Sieglinde for the Canadian Opera Company's production of Die Walküre which runs until F...
