Professional Work

The Globe and Mail:

• Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem proves it doesn’t need the hype (January 2020)
• Toronto Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to Beethoven’s 250th birthday (January 2020)
• Barbara Hannigan returns to Roy Thomson Hall as soprano and conductor (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)

Maryland Lyric Opera:

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

Ballet + / National Ballet Of Canada:

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

Opera News Magazine:

• Alexander Neef (feature interview, 2018)
• “Arabella” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• “L’elisir d’amore” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2017)
• “Le nozze di Figaro” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
• “Carmen” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
• “La Traviata” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2015)
• “Falstaff” (review; Canadian Opera Company, 2014)

Opera Canada Magazine (Features):

• Opera’s Digital Shift (Cover Story; Autumn 2020 print edition)
• Orchestre Métropolitain performs Mahler Amidst COVID19 Restrictions (September 2020)
• Favorites Of The Decade (December 2019)
• Alexander Neef (interview about Opéra nationale de Paris appointment; 2019)
• Carlo Rizzi (interview, 2019)
• The 2019 Vancouver Bach Festival: Vocal Richness
• A new vision for Festival de Lanaudière: Renaud Loranger (interview, 2019)
• The Magic Flute in Glyndebourne: Barbe & Doucet (interview, 2019)
• Joseph Rouleau tribute (2019)
• Russell Thomas / Otello interview (2019)
• A Tribute to Opera Philanthropist Roger D. Moore (feature; 2019)
• Claude Vivier: Cosmic Seeker (feature; 2019)
• Alexander Neef  / Canadian Opera Company 2019-2020 season announcement (interview; 2019)
• Wilhelm Schwinghammer  / Elektra interview (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 / Medée interview; 2017)
• Gerard Gauci  / profile interview (2017)
• Charles Benaroya / COC Orchestra, trombone (interview; 2017)
• Stephen Hegedus  / profile interview; 2016)
• Andrea Hill (interview; 2015)
• Carrol Anne Curry / Ruby Award interview; 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)

Canadian Opera Company – Winter 2018 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 — 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)

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)

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 Interview:

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

Teaching engagements:

• Radio documentary creation, Seneca College (Faculty of Communications), Winter Term 2015/2016/2017/2018/2019/2020
• Emerging Arts Critics panel – mentor/editor, Canadian Opera Company in partnership with Opera Canada magazine,
  January 2020 – April 2020

Speaking engagements:

• Humber College, Journalism Program (School of Media Studies), November 2017 + March 2018.

Audio Interviews:

• 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)