Written on Skin is not your mother’s opera! Though many of the themes remain the same, life, love, betrayal, death, most other aspects of this production will be jarring to your pre-conceived notions of the genre. Firstly, it is in English, and though not the first of...
Finally, an operatic heroine I can get behind! Though technically a Bel Canto, “Lucia di Lammermoor” has all the makings of all the best Opera de Montreal offerings. Lucia (Kathleen Kim, Soprano) and Edgardo (Frédéric Antoun, Tenor) are star-crossed lovers, torn apart...
Of the many films that have been made based on Stephen King novels, this is one of the few he adapted for the big screen himself. The story centers on a couple who move to the peaceful country side of Maine to provide their two young children with a safe upbringing....
Based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, audience members are invited to follow our protagonist from childhood into the last chapters of his life, as he battles the demons within. The role is played by three actors, at times gracing the stage simultaneously,...
The first in Wagner’s four-part oeuvre entitled “Der Ring des Nibelungen” or “The Ring of the Nibelung”, Das Rheingold tells the tale of the forging of an accursed ring that will corrupt all who possess it. The opera opens with the three Rhine maidens, charged by...