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Sarah Dufresne dazzles as Ophélie in Opéra de Montréal's Hamlet along with mezzo Karine Deshayes and the Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Jacques Lacombe.

Soprano France Bellemare was impressive, both vocally and theatrically, in Poulenc's La Voix humaine.

Québec play of illicit love transformed into a memorable Opéra de Montréal world premiere.

An impressive trio of international singers carry Opéra de Montréal's traditional new production of this Verdi tragedy.

Opéra de Montréal's belated première of Strauss' take on the Greek tragedy is worth the wait, as soprano Lise Lindstrom and wunderkind conductor Yannick Nézét-Séguin lead an exciting, music-driven production.

Silent Night by Kevin Puts closes L'Opéra de Montréal's 2014-2015 season and is notable for revealing a formidable all-Canadian cast of principals.

Marie-Nicole Lemieux tackles Saint-Saëns' Dalila for the first time and exceeds all expectations. 

For the opening production in its 35th anniversary season, Opéra de Montréal pulled out all the stops in Verdi’s Nabucco, presented as a re-enactment of its première in 1842.

Opéra de Montréal’s sumptuous production of Turandot at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier is a grand spectacle in every sense, but misses on some of the finer details.

The Opéra de Montréal's production of Porgy and Bess is both an artistic success and a reaffirmation of the work's importance.

This November, the Opéra de Montréal celebrates Verdi’s bicentennial with a laugh, presenting his comic opera Falstaff. The revival of David Gately’s production, originally produced by Glimmerglass Opera and the recently deceased New York City Opera, received no shortage of snickers during Saturday’s première performance with Opéra de Montréal.

L’Opéra de Montréal opened its 2013/14 season with a revival of Léo Delibes’ major operatic success, Lakmé. Rarely performed today, the story revolves around a romance between a colonial British officer, Gérald, and a Brahma priestess, Lakmé, in 19th-century India.

Manon was not only central to Jules Massenet’s claim to international celebrity after its creation in 1884, it remains at the heart of the operatic repertoire and Massenet’s popularity today. Manon returned to the stage of L’Opéra de Montréal on 18 May after a lengthy absence to close the company’s 2012/13 season.

Étienne Dupuis et Nicole Car ont remporté tous les suffrages dans les deux rôles principaux de l'opéra Eugène Onéguine à l'Opéra de Montréal, dans une production à peu près sans faille.

L’Opéra de Montréal présentait samedi Dialogues des Carmélites, une production réunissant Serge Denoncourt et Jean-François Rivest. Pour rendre l’univers de Poulenc, ceux-ci ont respectivement fait le choix d’une mise en scène sobre et d’un orchestre expansif : un mélange qui, avec l’arsenal d’interprètes à leur disposition, a donné de brillants résultats.