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Back in December 2012 I reviewed the 500th performance of Dean Burry’s opera for children, The Brothers Grimm. On Wednesday I went to the 25th anniversary performance in the RBA.  It was packed; with loads of kids, some quite young.

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My review of OperaQ’s film, La Maupin, about a 17th century swashbuckling, gender fluid French mezzo is now available at Opera Canada.


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The Glenn Gould’s Spring Opera, which opened on Wednesday night, is an intriguing double bill.  It pairs Rossini’s first, and rarely performed, opera; La cambiale di matrimonio with Puccini’s much better known Gianni Schicchi.

La cambiale di matrimonio (The Wedding Contract) is a one act screwball comedy (technically a farsa).&n...


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Here’s my take on what’s coming up in the Met “Live in HD” cinema series in the 2026/27 series.  There are again eight operas in the series.  One is a work new to the Met, two are new productions and five are repertory shows.  There’s also ...


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I have a very ambiguous relationship with Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia.  Britten’s music I love and there’s a pretty dramatic story (albeit nonsense historically) trying to escape from Ronald Duncan’s weird Christo-prophetic and somewhat overripe libretto.  Centaurs casting their seed among the stars?  Anyone?  So I was most interested ...


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