Canadian Opera Company

Critics are split on Wajdi Mouawad’s recasting of Mozart’s The Abduction. Can modern playwrights rewrite the classics for the 21st century?

The Canadian Opera Company has reworked a problematic opera about the story of Louis Riel. Does it succeed, all the same?

A critic on the incident that has the international music world in a flap—and the troubling truth about art criticism in our times

Alexander Neef’s eyes are trained on Europe, not his own country

Peter Sellars takes a new direction to Tristan und Isolde

‘Nixon in China,’ once derided as ‘a novelty item,’ has turned out to be a modern classic

No one seems to admire Wagner, but nicer artists just don’t have the same cultural clout

The Canadian Opera Company’s Alexander Neef talks about what he has to live up to