| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 24-Mar-2013 La Maison Symphonique de Montréal | Verdi's Requiem with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and L'Orchestre Métropolitain |
 If you were to measure the potency of this afternoon’s concert of Verdi’s Requiem by the sheer number of grown men weeping at the end, I’d say it was an unparalleled success. In fact, after that grandiose musical testament, operatic in scope, the applause was nearly endless and every soul in the hall rose to stand.
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| 28-Nov-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Something for everyone in La Traviata at the Royal Opera |
 ASHMORE.jpg) A glittering high society romance. A sordid tale of a prostitute born in the gutter and dying alone and painfully. A bel canto charmer, packed with glorious tunes. A scathing attack on Victorian sexual hypocrisy. Verdi's La Traviata is all of these things: find in it what you will.
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| 27-Oct-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | The Royal Opera House celebrate Placido Domingo's forty years of Covent Garden performances |
 ASHMORE.jpg) In 1971, the thirty year-old Placido Domingo made his Covent Garden début as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca and in the intervening forty years, he has given two hundred and thirty performances in more than twenty-five roles for Royal Opera House audiences.Read full review... | |
| 5-Oct-2011 Academy of Music | Opera Phila’s ‘Carmen’ Easy to Love |
 Some operagoers contend that Carmen, the fatalistic gypsy doomed to die, is unlikable. She antagonizes other women at the cigarette factory. She seduces men with abandon. She makes an inexperienced corporal of the guard fall for her, manipulates him into abandoning his military career for a life of smuggling, and then heartlessly turns him out like a pesky stray.
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