Operaramblings
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This is a blog focused on classical vocal music, opera, art song and choral.
Operaramblings
22h ago
Crow’s Theatre opened the season last night with a production of Ibsen’s Romersholm in an adaptation by Duncan Macmillan directed by Chris Abraham. It’s not perhaps Ibsen’s best known play but it’s powerful and somewhat topically relevant and the production ..read more
Operaramblings
22h ago
Infinite Life, by Annie Baker, in a production directed by Jackie Maxwell, opened at Coal Mine Theatre last night. It’s a play that has garnered acclaim in both London and New York. It’s not hard to see why. It’s the ..read more
Operaramblings
4d ago
Edmonton Opera today announced that Robin Whiffen, Executive Director of Against the Grain (though on mat leave for a while now) is joining as their new Executive Director; teaming up again wiith Joel Ivany, Artistic Director, in Edmonton. Now all ..read more
Operaramblings
1w ago
Martin Kušej’s production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Salzburg in 2023 came 20 years after he had last directed a Mozart opera at Salzburg. My reviews (and follow up pieces) of his productions of Don Giovanni (2002, revived ..read more
Operaramblings
1w ago
A couple of months ago I reviewed Jennifer Nicholls’ film of Sweat by Anna Chatterton and Juliet Palmer. It was the main feature in a double bill that also included an animated short from the Canadian Art Song Project of ..read more
Operaramblings
2w ago
Well late August has been a bit thin in terms of live performances but September. sees things back with a bang. Coal Mine Theatre is opening with Annie Baker’s Infinite Life which played to rave reviews in London and New ..read more
Operaramblings
3w ago
I guess I’ve learned never to expect the predictable from Emily D’Angelo (except for the black clothes and boots). Her new album; freezing, is as unexpected as enargeia was four years ago. This album is even less “classical”. The seventeen ..read more
Operaramblings
3w ago
Bohislav Martinů’s The Greek Passion is a 1961 opera based on the novel Christ Recrucified by Nicos Kazantzakis. The English language libretto is by the composer. It was staged in the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg in 2023 in a production directed ..read more
Operaramblings
3w ago
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Art Song Project and the sixth time a summer intensive for young singers has been held in Toronto. The final concert on Sunday afternoon in Temerty Theatre was run on similar ..read more
Operaramblings
3w ago
Picture a Day Like This is the latest operatic collaboration between George Benjamin and Martin Crimp (Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence). It’s basically an hour long chamber opera written for five singers and chamber orchestra and it’s ..read more