Breaking from past settings of Mozart, Joel Ivany and Against the Grain have reconfigured Kopernikus for a new operatic headspace.

Lyric Opera of Chicago's timely company premiere of Les Troyens an immense accomplishment.

Originally commissioned by the Vancouver City Opera in the 2010-12 season, "Fallujah" makes it's New York City premiere with an authentic, brutal realism exploring the emotional complexities of war.

A poem as a review for Opéra de Montréal, Elektra.

Opera de Montreal are ending their season with Kevin Puts’s Silent Night, a cinematically efficient opera about the Christmas truce of 1914.

Mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn and pianist Julius Drake perform a spring-like program of song at Pollack Hall.

The Ladies' Morning Musical Club is the most civilized thing you can do in Montreal on a Sunday afternoon. They’ve been in continuous operation since 1892 and I have no doubt they’ll find a way to keep putting on concerts through the coming ecological apocalypse. Perhaps they will sell distilled water...

Interview with Alexander Shelley, announced as NAC Orchestra Music Designate in October 2013.

Wear a down parka to the Met in winter for a Slavic double-bill like Iolanta and Bluebeard’s Castle and you feel like the only caveman too stupid to club a mink. A sweet Russian lady handed me her spare with maternal concern, but if I felt any embarrassment it vanished in the dead animal’s embrace, and people stopped staring...

How do you bring a 188-member orchestra and chorus, their equipment and a dozen soloists from Italy to North America? You buy a ship, crew it, and like the Ark, stock two of every musician. Half will be eaten on the journey. Though historical precedents suggest it may be unsustainable, such extravagance was worth it. To the families of the eaten: we salute you. William Tell was a triumph.