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Erin Shields' "To a Flame" is packed with striking images and action but doesn't entirely convince:

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/26/to-a-flame/

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/25/here-we-go-again-6/

Alice Childress' 1969 play explores what it meant to be African-American in 1964 Harlem

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/25/wine-in-the-wilderness/

Interesting "baroque" album from melbourne trio Hyperbaroq

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/22/tripudiis-sonis-variis/

My review is up at bachtrack

https://bachtrack.com/review-traviata-arbus-lewek-long-long-braun-canadian-opera-company-toronto-september-2026

#bachtrack

Rather nice sea themed CD from mezzo Beth Taylor and pianist Hamish Brown

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/20/the-deeps-have-music/

Paolo Santalucia's adaptation of Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening" at Soulpepper

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/18/spring-awakening/

Seven new pieces for cello duo:

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/17/the-way-appears/

Cyrille Dubois sings Britten's French rep

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/16/britten-en-francais/

Ameliorate climate change or colonize Mars... which side are you on?

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/14/walden/

An opera about probably the first person to transition surgically from male to female

https://myscena.org/john-gilks/cd-review-lili-elbe-tobias-picker/

Puzzling Eugene Onegin video from Madrid

https://myscena.org/john-gilks/dvd-review-eugene-onegin-teatro-real-gustavo-gimeno/

Jake heggie's "Intelligence" is part spy thriller, part mystery and part polemic against slavery. The Houston recording is excellent.

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/09/a-spy-in-the-confederate-white-house/

Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye at Lula Lounge

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/09/02/leonard-cohen-in-yiddish/ ;

Rusalka forsakes Brooklyn for Hollywood... https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/29/rusalka-gritty-and-glam/

Interesting, abstract Maria Stuarda from Salzburg

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/26/austere-maria-stuarda/

Confluence Concerts annual young artists' intensive

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/21/side-by-side-by-confluence/

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/18/date-of-performance/

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/17/coc-summer-intensive-showcase/

GPO Box No.211 is a highly abstract theatre/dance piece inspired b the imprisonment of a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong

https://operaramblings.blog/2026/08/15/gpo-box-no-211/

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Wine in the Wilderness

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Solid La traviata revival at the COC

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Britten en français

Walden

Lili Elbe

Frustrating Onegin

A spy in the Confederate White House

Leonard Cohen in Yiddish

Gritty and grim Rusalka

Austere Maria Stuarda

Side by Side

Making theatre in Iranian prisons

COC Summer Intensive Showcase

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