Current CV
The Globe & Mail – Features/Interviews:
- La Reine-Garçon: Julien Bilodeau; Michel Marc Bouchard, Alexander Neef (Canadian Opera Company / Opéra de Montréal) – January 2025
- Canadians & The Met: Live in HD (Emily D’Angelo & Joshua Hopkins) – September 2024
- “Three Canadian classical music festivals to visit this summer” (Festival Lanaudière; Westben; BIGLAKE) – May 2024
- Royce Vavrek – March 2024
- Marion Newman – February 2024
- Unsuk Chin – January 2024
- Andrew Burashko (The Art of Time Ensemble) – November 2023
- Dr. Spy Dénommé-Welch (creator, Canoe / Native Earth Performing Arts, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto Consort, Unsettled Scores; Toronto) September 2023
- Ahmed Moneka & Jesse LaVercombe (creators, King Gilgamesh & the Man of the Wild / Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto) – July 2023
- Sinéad Wallace-Campbell & Keri Alkema (Tosca/Canadian Opera Company, Toronto) – May 2023
- On the life and work of Joseph Bologne (essay) – May 2023
- Australian Chamber Orchestra‘s Richard Tognetti tours with William Barton – April 2023
- Rafael Payare – March 2023
- DakhaBrakha – March 2023
- Emily D’Angelo – February 2023
- The reinvention and live classical performance (Alisa Weilerstein, Alex Pauk) – January 2023
- Fall on Your Knees – the stage adaptation (Alisa Palmer, Sean Mayes) – January 2023
- Anna Sagalova – “Displaced Ukrainian pianist holding concerts in Canada” – January 2023
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra CEO Mark Williams + Four International Orchestras To Draw Inspiration From – November 2022
- Rethinking the Classical Canon (Kate Molleson, Marion Newman, Gustavo Gimeno, Mervon Mehta, Hannah Chan-Hartley) – October 2022
- Seven Canadian opera stars to watch – October 2022
- Wexford opera festival – November 2018
- Instagram and opera – October 2018
- The legacy of Claude Vivier – April 2018
- Conductor Jordan De Souza finds fame in Berlin – April 2018
The Globe & Mail – Obituaries:
- OBITUARY: Colin Tilney – January 2025
- OBITUARY: Michael Cavanagh – March 2024
- OBITUARY: Seiji Ozawa – February 2024
The Globe & Mail – Reviews:
- Medea (Canadian Opera Company) – May 2024
- Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company) – February 2024
- La bohème (Canadian Opera Company) – October 2023
- Fidelio (Canadian Opera Company, Toronto) – October 2023
- Treemonisha (Luminato Festival, Toronto) – June 2023
- Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto) – June 2023
- Pomegranate (Canadian Opera Company) – June 2023
- Vierge (Factory Theatre) – April 2023
- English (Soulpepper Theatre) – February 2023
- Yerma (Coal Mine Theatre) – February 2023
- The Marriage of Figaro (Canadian Opera Company) – January 2023
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra 100th anniversary concert (Yo-Yo Ma, Jeremy Dutcher ) – November 2022
- The Flying Dutchman, Canadian Opera Company – October 2022
- Mozart Requiem, Toronto Symphony Orchestra – January 2020
- Beethoven’s 250th birthday, Toronto Symphony Orchestra – January 2020
- Barbara Hannigan at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra – September 2019
- Jan Lisiecki – Beethoven Concertos album – September 2019
Cover story featuring conductor Jordan de Souza, La Scena Musicale, January 2025.
La Scena Musicale:
- COVER STORY: Jordan de Souza – January 2025
- INTERVIEW: Joyce Lai, Artistic Director, Canadian Sinfonietta – January 2025
- INTERVIEW: Alex Pauk, Esprit Orchestra -October 2024
- INTERVIEW: Rachel Podger, Tafelmusik – October 2024
- PREVIEW: Banff Centre’s Summer Opera Programs – June 2024
- INTERVIEW: Nadia Labrie – April 2024
- INTERVIEW: Seong-Jin Cho – May 2023
- INTERVIEW: Brian Finley, Director/Co-Founder, Westben Festival – May 2023
- COVER STORY / INTERVIEW: Cecilia Livingston – March 2023
- INTERVIEW: Yoav Talmi – March 2023
- COVER STORY / INTERVIEW: Andrew Balfour – February 2023
- INTERVIEW: Lukas Geniušas – February 2023
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)
Cover story featuring mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, Opera Canada, Winter 2025.
Opera Canada – Features:
- Rihab Chaieb (cover story, Winter 2025)
- Sandra Horst, Canadian Opera Company Chorus Master (Ruby Awards Edition, Autumn 2024)
- Jordan De Souza (cover story, Spring 2024)
- Known to Dreamers – Canadian Art Song Project (2024)
- Emily D’Angelo (2021)
- Barbara Hannigan (2020)
- Opera’s Digital Shift (cover story, Autumn 2020: interviews with Sir Antonio Pappano, Alexander Neef, Teiya Kasahara, Catherine Foster, Tapestry Opera’s Michael Mori, and Jaime Martino)
- 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 edition)
- Gerald Finley / King Lear interview (cover story; Winter 2017 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) – with David Trippett interview
- 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:
- Notes: The Women of Le nozze di Figaro, Thais, and Il tabarro (January 2020)
National Ballet Of Canada:
- Traditions of ‘The Nutcracker’ (December 2019)
- ‘The Merry Widow’: All the Grandeur of the Belle Epoque (May 2019)
Canadian Opera Company:
- 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 (incl. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, 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 (incl. Lemon Bucket Orkestra, 2016)
- Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company, 2016)
The National Post:
- 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:
The Daily Dot:
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)