Review | Peter Sellars’ Unhip Castor et Pollux in Paris
Nothing is less hip than a strenuous attempt to be hip. This is how polite society would describe Paul Sellars’ take on Rameau’s Castor et…
Ossama el Naggar
Ossama el Naggar
Born in Cairo, Egypt, Ossama el Naggar moved to Montréal to pursue graduate studies in Chemistry and Business Administration. He founded a classical music distribution company and later an online business. He teaches opera appreciation, history and literature at the Thomas More Institute in Montréal and travels extensively worldwide, chronicling opera, ballet and the symphonic repertoire.
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Review | Joyce El-Khoury Triumphs as Médée in Paris
Premiered in Paris in 1797, Cherubini’s Médée was originally presented with a French libretto, based on Euripides’ play from Greek antiquity. It’s this version that is currently…
Review | Lisette Oropesa Triumphs in Misguided Paris I puritani
Bellini’s final opera, I puritani (1835), premiered shortly before the composer’s untimely death by accidental poisoning. It is one of the highpoints in the romantic…
Review | A Very Canadian Dialogues des carmélites in Valencia
Based on Die Letzte am Schafott (“The Song at the Scaffold”), a novella about the execution by guillotine of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne in…
Review | Disappointing Tristan und Isolde opens Geneva opera season
Tristan und Isolde is a colossal work, not only due to its length (five hours, including two intermissions) or for the influence of its “Tristan”…
