Reviewer's Rating Ariodante Aparna Halpé 24/10/2016here really is only one word that can describe the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Handel’s Ariodante: Wow. We’re...
Reviewer's Rating Armide Aparna Halpé 26/10/2015ow apt that Opera Atelier has chosen to open its 30th anniversary season with its faultless Armide. Brought first to...
Reviewer's Rating The Dybbuk Aparna Halpé 24/05/2015t the end of Soulpepper’s world premier of The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds, the audience leapt to its feet,...
Reviewer's Rating Mahmoud Alia Somani 19/05/2015f there is a play in Toronto that must be seen right now, I would say without any hesitation that...
Reviewer's Rating Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung Aparna Halpé 09/05/2015ierce, obsessive, passionate, and confounding, Robert Lepage’s famed production of Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung comes home...
Reviewer's Rating Orpheus Aparna Halpé 15/04/2015pera Atelier’s production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice is a delight precisely because it brings back a pristine, classical approach...
Reviewer's Rating The Unplugging Alia Somani 21/03/2015he Unplugging, written by Algonquin playwright Yvette Nolan, is not a play driven by action. It’s about dialogue. Most importantly,...
Die Walküre Aparna Halpé 03/02/2015he Canadian Opera Company’s magnificent remounting of their 2006 production of Wagner’s Die Walküreis a striking example of Toronto’s steady...
Reviewer's Rating Arcadia Aparna Halpé 16/11/2014om Stoppard’s Arcadia is arguably about the nature of genius (among other things), but sadly the genius in tonight’s production,...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Aparna Halpé 27/10/2014pera Atelier’s Canadian Premiere of Handel’s Alcina meets every expectation that we have of the company – it is sexy,...