Hybrid Chinese chamber opera Feng Yi Ting a learning experience at Luminato in Toronto

Ambur Braid excels in the title role in the Canadian Opera Company’s starrily cast revival of Atom Egoyan's production.

Despite an abundance of incongruous symbols, this Toronto performance was remarkable for its outstanding singing.

Canadian Opera Company Toronto première of Così hit the trifecta, with strong performances from cast, conductor Johannes Debus, and director Atom Egoyan.

Atom Egoyan’s production of Richard Strauss’ Salome is styled for extreme contrasts. You could think of it as Springtime for Herod in Judea. While patrons spilling out of limos, taxis and Wheel-Trans were gathering on this magnolia blossom-filled May Day evening in the plaza outside the opera house’s glass façade, a parade hedged by bicycle cops was filing by.

Die Regisseurin Brigitte Fassbaender beweist einen grünen Daumen für Mozarts frühes Dramma giocosa und lässt neben mitreißend witzigem Szenenspiel einfühlsame Charakterporträts entstehen.

Max Emanuel Cencic ist mit seiner Inszenierung von Leonardo Vinics Stück über Alexander dem Großen ein echter Geniestreich gelungen. Selten war eine Opera seria so bunt, kurzweilig und trotzdem durchweg authentisch.