2023 - Latest
Show Room, a new chamber opera by Rodney Sharman and Atom Egoyan | Wholenote Magazine | April 2023 issue | online and in print
On Andree Michaud’s novel Trembling River | Canadian Notes & Queries | Forthcoming online and in print
The Toronto Star
What do we expect from history podcasts? | online and in print (August 8, 2020)
The Best Concerts Available Online Now: Diane Dufresne, Laurie Anderson, Julie Andrews, Eurythmics, Talking Heads | online (July 10, 2020) and in print (July 11, Saturday issue)
Best of Canadian Podcasts, Spring 2020 | online (May 10, 2020) and in print (May 12)
Opera News
Hansel & Gretel at the Canadian Opera Company - a review of the Feb 2020 production | May 2020 issue
How We Got Here: A Bifurcated History from Aleksandar Hemon | September 2019 issue | in print and online
A review of Marie-Renée Lavoie’s novel ‘Autopsy of a Boring Wife’ (Anansi, 2019; transl. Arielle Aaronson) | April 2019 Issue | In print
Literary Review of Canada
La Boheme | COC | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | May 2019
Otello | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | May 2019
Cosi fan tutte | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | February 12, 2019
Elektra | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | January 28, 2019
Hadrian | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | October 15, 2018
Eugene Onegin | Canadian Opera Company | REVIEW in Opera Canada online | October 2, 2018
The new production of Donizetti's Anna Bolena does not thrill - a review (online here, in print Fall 2018)
The COC revives Robert Lepage's production of The Nightingale and Other Short Fables by Igor Stravinsky - a review (Fall 2018 issue)
Opera Canada
BookForum
A review of Anne Garreta's book Not One Day (translated by Emma Ramadan) - April/May issue, 2017 (PDF)
Globe and Mail
Wholenote (selection)
Verbotenlieder, or Women Take on Men’s Operatic Hits (December 2018)
Conduct! Every Move Counts (Nov 2017)
21C Festival Opening Night: Brian Current, Samy Moussa, Matthew Aucoin & Unsuk Chin and the COC Orchestra (May 2017)
Toronto Consort in Elena by Cavalli (May 2017)
Soundstreams' Odditorium: A Deft Distillation (Mar 2017)
Adrianne Pieczonka sings Die Winterreise (Feb 2017)
DailyXtra
Canadian Queer Cinema Primer: On The Romance of Transgression by Thomas Waugh (Jan 2007)
Women in Love: On Diana Souhami's Wild Girls (Apr 2006)
Books in Canada
A review of Sex and Ethics. Essays on Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life, edited by Raja Halwani (18(1) 2008, pp. 103-5)
Social Semiotics
For a lot more reviews, head to my Substack and to the WholeNote magazine.