Professional Work

Globe & Mail – Features/Interviews:

• La Reine-Garçon: interviews with Alexander Neef; Julien Bilodeau; Michel Marc Bouchard (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 (librettist) – March 2024
• Marion Newman (mezzo soprano) – February 2024
• Unsuk Chin (composer) – January 2024
• Andrew Burashko (artistic director, 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 (mezzo sopranos, 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  (conductor; music director, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal) – March 2023
• DakhaBrakha (Ukrainian band) – March 2023
• Emily D’Angelo (mezzo soprano) – February 2023
• The reinvention and live classical performance (Alisa Weilerstein, cellist; Alex Pauk, conductor) – January 2023
• Fall on Your Knees – the stage adaptation  (Alisa Palmer, director; Sean Mayes, music supervisor/composer) – 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

Globe & Mail – Obituaries:

• OBITUARY: Colin Tilney – January 2025
• OBITUARY: Michael Cavanagh – March 2024
• OBITUARY: Seiji Ozawa – February 2024

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

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 (composer) (March 2023)
• INTERVIEW: Yoav Talmi (March 2023)
• COVER STORY / INTERVIEW: Andrew Balfour (composer) (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)

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 edition; 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 (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:

• 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)