Tag Archive for the term: opera

In case you haven’t been religiously following this blog or stalking me, here’s the deal with The Assembly that you may have heard whispered about somewhere lately.
Since February 10th, more than 60 artists around the city have been involved in a collaborative art-making relay called The Assembly. All month, art projects have passed from […]

I met this morning with Stephen Taylor, the local musician from Trike, who recently relocated from B.C. and is writing an 8-piece rock opera in his free time.
We had breakfast at a diner near Lionel-Groulx, which is an area I really need to visit more frequently. I lost my wallet last week during a […]

(this is the followup to: A Night at the Opera-Part One-Review of L’Enfant et les Sortileges)
Gianni Schicchi
Opera McGill

Review of the first opera, L’Enfant et les Sortileges, here.
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Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is fun little slapsticker. It reminds one of a drawer room comedy or of opera buffa. A greedy family has arrived at […]

l’Enfant et les Sortileges
Opera McGill
Even though I spend most of my Saturday afternoons with Howard Dyck not Sook-Yin; I will admit that my knowledge of opera is about equal to George Bush’s knowledge of the Middle East. Luckily I picked the perfect show to attend with Opera McGill’s staging of two one act pieces-Ravel’s […]

You got yer New Years plans all figured out? It’s that time of year again, and it sort of reminds me of end of term at school when all anyone can seem to talk about is how much work they have, only this time the default dazed chat is all about plans.
There are always […]