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Johannes Debus; Yvette Nolan; Canadian Opera Company; Gillian Gallow; Jeff Chief; Michelle Ramsay; Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
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Opera Atelier's long delayed La resurrezione

Meghan Lindsay (Mary Magdelen), Allyson McHardy (Mary Cleophas) and Alexis Basque (Trumpet) © Bruce Zinger
The young Handel's homage to Counter Reformation Rome, La resurrezione, is effectively brought to life by Opera Atelier with glittering sets and fine, stylish singing.

A Eugene Onegin that's less than the sum of its parts in Seattle

Tomer Zvulun's mostly traditional account of the Tchaikovsky masterpiece arrives at Seattle Opera in an attractively staged but underwhelming package.

A celebration of French Baroque opera-ballet at Versailles

Opera Atelier presents a double bill at the Royal Opera in Versailles filled with Baroque dancing, scenery and music.

An intensely riveting Flying Dutchman explodes the cliches

Christopher Alden's risk-taking, Expressionist-tinged production of the early Wagner breakthrough is provocative in all the right ways.

Lust, revenge and an interesting mingling of styles

Roman mythology bumps into Buddhism, not always comfortably, in Zhang Huan’s production of Handel’s Semele at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The Magic Flute as great musical comedy from Opera Atelier in Toronto

Opera Atelier espouses truth in advertising: The Magic Flute, they tell us, is a Singspiel in two acts. You can call it a play with songs, a musical comedy, even an operetta, but hardly an opera in the traditional sense. Call it what you will, this is Opera Atelier’s fourth production of the work in the last 22 years.