Monthly Archives: October 2011

Hugh Russell as Figaro in Opera Hamilton’s production of The Barber of Seville.   In Opera Hamilton’s latest Il Barbiere di Siviglia, director Brent Krysa has created a freshly imaginative and hilariously detailed theatrical realization of Rossini’s comically exhilarating score. … Continue reading →

A good part of my musical lifetime flashed before my eyes recently at Roy Thompson Hall as I contemplated the cover of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s program. Of the ten conductors on display, I have experienced nine in live performance, … Continue reading →

In the Canadian Opera Company’s cerebrally insistent production of Rigoletto, now at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto, Quinn Kelsey in the title role asserts a commanding physical presence and a dynamic voice. Be he mean or gentle or haunted, … Continue reading →