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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Orlando/Lunaire Review: Intriguing but Unsatisfying

To paraphrase the fine gentlemen from The Awl, a lot of tartar builds up around opera’s conventions and repertoire, and regular efforts need to be made to scrape it away. Orlando/Lunaire, the product of a collaboration between the Classical Music Consort and Opera Erratica, represents just such an attempt. Even the location was unusual for [...]

Operatoonity and Other News

Gale of Operatoonity has posted an interview with me in which I discuss the Canadian Opera Company’s hopes for the new blog, Parlando. If you’re interested in what I’ve been doing in the opera world lately, go check it out. Also, this weekend I’ll be attending Orlando/Lunaire (here’s the listing at She Does the City). [...]

I’m Blogging with the COC

If you’ve been disappointed in the relatively low posting volume here at All Time Coloratura in the last couple of weeks, fear not – I am now commandeering not one but two opera blogs. Parlando, a blog for the Canadian Opera Company, went live this morning. I’ll be blogging there about all things COC. I [...]

In Which I Let Others do the Work For Me

I’ve been meaning to post this particular item for several weeks, and since I can’t permit this hiatus to continue any longer, now is the perfect time. This youtube clip comes via a Parterre Box comment thread, one of the epic youtube contests that have yielded up a bounty of treasures from the bowels of [...]

Email Subscriptions Now Working!

It was recently brought to my attention that email subscriptions, which worked fine on the old site, were broken after the move. This has now been remedied. So, enter your email in the form on the right sidebar, click “subscribe”, and have all new posts emailed to you!