Review: Vancouver Opera s choice of The Music Shop was a good one The Music Shop is a deliberate trifle, three-quarters of an hour of silliness, but elegantly written in a slyly evocative conservative modern idiom
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021 • March 14, 2021 • 2 minute read • Amanda Weatherall was at her best as a demented Valkyrie in the Vancouver Opera s The Music Shop. Photo by Mike Southworth /jpg
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.
Article content
On Saturday evening Vancouver Opera offered the digital and Canadian premiere of Richard Wargo’s 1993 short comic opera The Music Shop, in a staging designed to showcase the talents of a sextet from this year’s crop of Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists.
by Steve Newton on March 11th, 2021 at 3:36 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
The third installment in Vancouver Opera s 2020-2021 digital season is the comedic one-act opera
The Music Shop by Richard Wargo, which premieres this Saturday (March 13). In this brilliant comedy, reads the Vancouver Opera overview, a meek husband desperately searches a music shop for a song requested by his wife. But if only he could remember the title or the tune of the song! His Wagnerian wife appears in a series of hilarious hallucinations during his mad scramble through the ill-fated music shop.
Video of Introducing the cast of Vancouver Opera's The Music Shop
Funny, you sang that: New Vancouver Opera production takes a comical, refreshing turn For most contemporary composers, serious is the name of the game. And that makes Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop, part of a trilogy of operas based on Chekhov, all the more special
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021 • March 10, 2021 • 3 minute read • Opera films as classic sitcom and don’t we all need a little comic pick me up these days? Photo by Courtesy, Autumn Coppaway
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.