Otello Aparna Halpé 01/05/2019I will readily admit that Otello is my personal favorite of all Verdi operas. The magnificent choruses, searing ensembles, and...
La Bohème Aparna Halpé 19/04/2019La Bohème Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Canadian Opera Company Directed by John Caird Cast (in...
Reviewer's Rating Hadrian Aparna Halpé 22/10/2018The Canadian Opera Company’s new commission, Hadrian, proves without doubt that Contemporary Canadian Opera is alive and very well indeed....
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 11/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Aparna Halpé 13/05/2018The COC wraps up Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy with a new production of Anna Bolena, the tragic bel canto opera based...
Reviewer's Rating The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Aparna Halpé 30/04/2018It was with something akin to despair that I realized I was coming down with the flu two days before...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Heidi Melton in conversation with Aparna Halpé Aparna Halpé 13/02/2015merican Dramatic Soprano, Heidi Melton, is in Toronto singing Sieglinde for the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Die Walküre which...