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Bohème against the grain
composer Giacomo Puccini It’s been attempted before: taking that well-known and perhaps overly-familiar opera, Puccini’s La bohème, and reinventing it. Baz Luhrmann tried it with some success. So did...
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Opera Eats
Opera Five Artistic Director Aria Umezawa There are more talented artists graduating from the programs training them than there are possible jobs. It’s one reason we have Fringe Festivals: because...
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Lost in the East
We always know our spatio-temporal co-ordinates with the help of satellite surveillance and assorted electronic devices. When was the last time you were lost? Those of us with regular jobs go back and...
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Figaro’s Honeymoon
It’s summertime, a season when young men’s minds turn to mush, in the presence of humidity and hotness of various kinds. Of course men have no monopoly on this, but I was just mis-quoting Tennyson....
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BOUND v. 2: power struggles
Against the Grain Theatre premiered version two of BOUND at The Great Hall on Queen St W or as Joel Ivany called it “an ongoing process”. I didn’t see version 1, and perhaps this summer or next year...
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Varieties of inclusivity in COC Boheme
Erika and I watched the Canadian Opera Company’s la bohème today at the Four Seasons Centre using our subscription tickets, a revival of John Caird’s production that we saw in 2013 and again in 2019....
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