“The Toronto Review Of Books” reviews ”Opera Briefs”

Talia Zajac reviews Tapestry New Opera’s “Opera Briefs” and says of Christiaan Venter’s music for”The Drawing Class”, “Sombre, deep piano chords penetrated the children’s world as their teacher tried to keep the horror at bay punctuated with notes of pure delight.” “Buoyant, light notes and dark shadows mingle to evocative effect in Christiaan Venter’s music for Sharon Bajer’s “All of the Sky”, a short scene based on the life of Iqbal Masih…”