Posts tagged as:

Opera de Montreal

MUSIC

I’m A Queen! Queen! Queen!

Thumbnail image for I’m A Queen! Queen! Queen!

Cendrillon, Opera de Montréal

by Lev Bratishenko
01.06.2010

I asked for it, I understand. I spent two seasons nipping at Opera de Montreal for its turgid sets and now it seems somebody must have been listening. Somebody powerful, with deep pockets and an insatiable hunger for the colour pink.

More →

MUSIC

Poor Wet Cat Redux

Thumbnail image for Poor Wet Cat Redux

Nelligan, Monument National

by Lev Bratishenko
08.03.2010

André Gagnon’s opera Nelligan premiered in 1990 at the Grand Theatre de Québec with a pop cast. On Saturday, the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal reprised it, twenty years on, at the Monument National. A more ambitious production than anything the Opéra de Montréal has dared at Place des Arts, it is full of [...]

More →

MUSIC

Shoot Him Again!

Thumbnail image for Shoot Him Again!

Tosca, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

by Lev Bratishenko
02.02.2010

Tosca! The name has teeth for good reason. Puccini’s opera averages a death every 37 minutes. It includes 19th century Italian politics, the homicidal lusting of a Roman police chief, a jealous girlfriend, and a superfluity of hypocrites. This is distilled opera of few peers in the repertoire, and is often a final examination for [...]

More →

MUSIC

Boy Prince And Birdbrain Get Lost

Thumbnail image for Boy Prince And Birdbrain Get Lost

The Magic Flute, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

by Lev Bratishenko
11.11.2009

You can’t have opera without ridiculous plot devices, and the older the opera the worse they get. But modern audiences are used to comprehensible plots and characters that aren’t allegories, so we turn our attention to the singing or fall asleep (Mister Parterre W38). Opéra de Montréal presents The Magic Flute, and the singing is [...]

More →