Opéra de Montréal’s long delayed and long anticipated return to live performance was a strong double bill on the theme of watery death: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s followed by the world premiere of by composer Hubert Tanguay-Labrosse and librettist Olivier Kemeid. This was a brave choice after a year of loss, and the right one, an affirmation that contemporary opera can be a way of feeling through our shared pain.
