Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TL is a journalist covering style, beauty, travel and culture. The Canadian Opera Company (COC) ushers in its 2025/2026 season ...

From the Stratford Festival to Edmonton’s International Fringe Festival, the summer months are an especially wonderful time for lovers of the stage By Ian Austen Alexander Neef, the general director ...

10 Days in a Madhouse is a Tapestry Opera and Opera Philadelphia production & commission, co-presented by the Luminato ...

The Canadian Opera Company will welcome Opera 5 as its newest Company-in-Residence. The two-year artistic residency will commence on July 1, 2025, with one of the major collaborations of the ...

Phillip Addis as Tancredi and Krisztina Szabó as Clorinda in the Canadian Opera Company’s world premiere production of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (with ‘Lamento d’Arianna’ and ‘Il combattimento di Tancredi ...

When I arrived home from the hospital with my hours-old baby nearly three decades ago, my next-door neighbour was making a ...

EXPRESSIVE MODERNISM- the kind in which lethal-looking angular shapes thrust and counterthrust in stark, perspective-whacked compositions -- has been dead and buried innumerable times by the art world ...

"Siegfried," the third opera in Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungs" cycle, can be sticky to stage. It's comparatively slow-paced, with a lot of repetition. You don't hear a woman's voice until the second ...

Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...

It’s taken years to get here. But “The Handmaid’s Tale” has finally arrived at San Francisco Opera. Based on the landmark 1985 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, this intensely dramatic work is ...