For the love of Opera: Dialogues des Carmelites

  (l – r) Irina Mishura (back to camera) as Mother Marie and Judith Forst as Madame de Croissy in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Dialogues des Carmélites, 2013. The last opening nigh...

For the love of Opera: Salome

The visually stimulating Dance of the Seven Veils scene from the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Salome The house was full on a Tuesday night for the third of eight performances of Strauss’s Salome. ...

For the love of Opera: The Magic Flute

In my workplace, I always like to play to my strengths, because I produce better work when I know I’m passionate about it. And even if it’s the same task I’m executing, each version has its own interpretation a...
Sic Semper Tyrannis written in paint on wall in The Canadian Opera Company's production of La clemenza di Tito, Toronto, Ontario

For the love of opera: La clemenza di Tito

Author's Note: Full disclosure, due to taxi troubles and a snowstorm, I missed the beginning of La clemenza di Tito and watched the first act from the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre on screen. I learned three th...