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...
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 ...
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...
Arabella Aparna Halpé 16/10/2017 The COC begins its 2017 season with a magnificent premier of Richard Strauss’s well beloved Arabella.
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf Aparna Halpé 15/05/2017 Somebody asked me today what to see in Toronto, and my answer was immediate: “ You have to see Djanet Sears new production of Colored Girls!”
Louis Riel Aparna Halpé 30/04/2017 Canada is 150 years old, and we celebrate this nation’s many evolutions...
Split Screen Stereophonic Aparna Halpé 24/02/2017 Peggy Baker Dance Projects’ Split Screen Stereophonic reprises four masterworks from the company’s recent repertoire. While each piece has its distinc...
