Professional Work

The Globe and Mail:

• Eyeing reinvention, live classical performances embrace the unexpected (January 2023) – featuring interviews with Alisa Weilerstein (cellist) and Alex Pauk (conductor)
• In Fall on Your Knees stage adaptation, music captures the spirit of life in Cape Breton (January 2023)
• Displaced Ukrainian pianist holding concerts in Canada to build back Kharkiv Arts University (January 2023)
• REVIEW: Toronto Symphony Orchestra 100th anniversary concert featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Jeremy Dutcher (November 2022)
• Interview with Toronto Symphony Orchestra CEO Mark Williams + Four International Orchestras To Draw Inspiration From (November 2022)
• Rethinking the Classical Canon (October 2022)
• Seven Canadian opera stars to watch (October 2022)
• REVIEW: The Flying Dutchman, Canadian Opera Company (October 2022)
• REVIEW: Mozart Requiem, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (January 2020)
• REVIEW: Beethoven’s 250th birthday, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (January 2020)
• REVIEW: Barbara Hannigan, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (September 2019)
• Jan Lisiecki / Beethoven Concertos album review (September 2019)
• “At the Wexford opera festival on the Irish seaside, unpretentious and eccentric are part of the charm” (November 2018)
• “Insta-divas: How social media has become the next stage for opera stars” (October 2018)
• “Why Quebec composer Claude Vivier was ahead of his time” — Interview with Conductor Vladimir Jurowski (April 2018)
• “How Jordan De Souza went from suburban Toronto to the Komische Oper Berlin” (April 2018)

Opera News:

• INTERVIEW: Alexander Neef (2018)
• REVIEW: Arabella (Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• REVIEW: L’elisir d’amore (Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• REVIEW: Le nozze di Figaro (Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
• REVIEW: Carmen (Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
• REVIEW: La traviata (Canadian Opera Company, 2015)
• REVIEW: Falstaff (Canadian Opera Company, 2014)

Opera Canada – Features:

• Emily D’Angelo (2021)
• Barbara Hannigan (2020)
• Opera’s Digital Shift (Cover Story; Autumn 2020 print edition)
• Orchestre Métropolitain performs Mahler Amidst COVID19 Restrictions (2020)
• Favorites Of The Decade (2019)
• Alexander Neef – interview about Opéra nationale de Paris appointment (2019)
• Carlo Rizzi (2019)
• The 2019 Vancouver Bach Festival: Vocal Richness (2019)
• A new vision for Festival de Lanaudière: Renaud Loranger (2019)
• The Magic Flute in Glyndebourne: Barbe & Doucet (2019)
• Joseph Rouleau tribute (2019)
• Russell Thomas on Otello (2019)
• A Tribute to Opera Philanthropist Roger D. Moore (2019)
• Claude Vivier: Cosmic Seeker (2019)
• Alexander Neef  / Canadian Opera Company 2019-2020 season announcement (2019)
• Wilhelm Schwinghammer on Elektra (2019)
• Indigenous Opera in Canada (Cover Story; Spring 2018 print edition)
• Gerald Finley / King Lear interview (Cover Story; Winter 2017 print edition; online preview)
• Musikfest Berlin (2017)
• In the land of Verdi (excerpt; 2017)
• Colin Ainsworth on Medée (2017)
• Gerard Gauci  / profile interview (2017)
• Charles Benaroya / COC Orchestra, trombone (interview; 2017)
• Stephen Hegedus (2016)
• Andrea Hill (2015)
• Carrol Anne Curry / Ruby Award (2015)

Opera Canada – Reviews:

• “Die Walküre” — concert presentations by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (February 2019)
• World Premiere of Liszt’s “Sardanapalo” in Weimar (August 2018)
• Berlin Philharmonic, Mikko Franck, conductor; Noah Bendix-Balgley, director/soloist (2018)
• “Don Giovanni” Glyndebourne, 1954; Sir Georg Solti, conductor (Nimbus Records; 2017)

Maryland Lyric Opera – Program Notes:

• Notes: The Women of Le nozze di Figaro, Thais, and Il tabarro  (January 2020)

Ballet + / National Ballet Of Canada – Online Features:

• Traditions of ‘The Nutcracker’ (December 2019)
• ‘The Merry Widow’: All the Grandeur of the Belle Epoque (May 2019)

Canadian Opera Company – In-house Magazine:

• Jane Archibald interview (2018)

CBC Music:

• 10 opera singers making Canada proud in 2017-2018 (2017)
• “What’s the future of opera in Canada?” (2015)
• “The problem with Carmen: Why nobody understands opera’s most famous character” (2015)
• Barbara Hannigan interview (2015)

Toronto Star — Features:

• Maureen Forrester tribute by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (2017)
• Canadian Opera Company General Director Alexander Neef interview (2017)
• Anna Netrebko and Yusif Ayvazov interview (2017)
• “L’elisir d’amore” preview (2017)
• Luca Pisaroni interview (2016)
• Peking Opera preview (2016)
• Opera 5 (2016)

Toronto Star — Reviews:

• Hamlet (Glyndebourne, 2017)
• Swan Lake (National Ballet of Canada, 2017)
• Oksana G.  (Tapestry Opera, 2017)
• The Magic Flute (Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• Medea (Opera Atelier, 2017)
• Trio Magnifico (Anna Netrebko/ Canadian debut, 2017)
• Maometto II(Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
• Naomi’s Road (Tapestry Opera, 2016)
• Lucio Silla (Opera Atelier, 2016)
• Dido and Aeneas (Opera Atelier, 2016)
• Norma (Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• Counting Sheep (Independent / Lemon Bucket Orkestra, 2016)
• Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company, 2016)

National Post — Features:

• Against The Grain Theatre Company (profile, 2016)
• “How the modern opera star went from bari-chunk to bari-hunk” (2016)
• “The ‘dumb tenor’ strikes again?” (2016)
• “Executives take their passion for music beyond the opera house” (2016)
• “Ronan McGrath takes his passion for Porsche to the track and beyond” (2016)

Video:

• Pre-screening Q&A to the Met Live In HD re-broadcast of “L’elisir d’amore” (Cineplex; March 2018)

Audio:

• Richard Crouse Show / Newstalk1010 (Toronto); member of culture panel (March 2018)
• Soundcloud (2010 – current)

Pacific Standard:

• “How David Bowie influenced a generation of LGBT youth” (2016)

The Daily Dot:

• “People on Pinterest are wild about stuffing food in jars” (2015)

Torontoist:

• “Bringing ‘Don Giovanni’ into the social media age” (2014)
• “Aspiring opera singers ready to raise their voices at Centre Stage” (2014)
• George Michael concert review (2008)
• More work (12 items; 2008 – 2014)

Intermission:

• Eda Holmes interview (2016)
• Diego Matamoros interview (2016)

Hyperallergic:

• “The penetrating portraits of an overlooked photographer” (2016)
• “With work by living composer, Canadian Opera Company embraces the edges of its art” (2015)
• “Douglas Coupland wants to give you brain orgasms” (2015)
• “A roving international art fest kicks off with Ragnar Kjartansson in Toronto” (2015)
• “Getting to know the new Terence Koh” (2014)
• More work (6 items; 2014 – 2016)

Metro:

• Racial diversity in Canadian art (2016)
• Instagram and art (2015)
• Wavelengths series at the Toronto International Film Festival (2015)
• Native art at the McMichael (2015)

Mic:

• “Feminism, bondage, matriarchy, and lassoes: The secret history of Wonder Woman” (2015)
• Interview with Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi (2015)
• “How the rise of the ‘creative class’ is actually screwing creative Americans” (2015)
• “What every internet movie critic owes to Roger Ebert” (2014)
• “The television industry has no idea how to handle great sci-fi” (2014)

Broadway World:

• Allan Hawco (interview; 2014)
• Stones In Her Mouth (review; 2014)
• More work (14 items; 2014)

XOJane:

• I Ended Up Teaching in The Same Classroom Where I’d Been A Student (2015)
• I Fulfilled My Lifelong Dream Of Moving To NYC (And I Totally Hated It) (2014)

Digital Journal:

• Christine Goerke (interview, 2015)
• “Nijinsky” (National Ballet of Canada, review; 2014)
• The Barr Brothers (interview; 2014)
• Sharon van Etten (interview, 2014)
• Hal Willner (interview, 2014)
• The Bad Plus (interview; 2014)
• Ferruccio Furlanetto (interview; 2014)
• Balthus show (Metropolitan Museum of Art, review; 2013)
• More work (122 items; 2009-2015)