Now in its 9th summer, Ottawa’s Music and Beyond festival was launched by Ottawa cellist Julian...
On 27th June 1918, the Canadian hospital ship, HMHS Llandovery Castle, laden with doctors, nurses...
June 26th, 2018: The recipients of the 39th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards were announced last...
Cmajor: DVD 743308, Blu-ray 743404—”La Scala’s Orchestra under the direction of Marc Minkowski plays beautifully from start to finish…and his connectivity between singers and orchestra is seamless” —John Holland
ArtHaus Musik 109338—”Michèle Losier’s Dorabella is a beautifully sung and witty characterization of a young girl whose natural impulses churn to break through the veneer of her romantic idealism right from the start” —Wayne Gooding
Alpha 293—Barbara Hannigan’s performance brings a “compelling emotional arc— and the precision of her delivery is breathtaking.” —Wayne Gooding
Alpha 379—Robert Gleadow relishes “every note and nuance of Mozart’s great buffo role, and comes across as the performance’s dramatic anchor.” —Wayne Gooding
Cmajor: DVD 743308, Blu-ray 743404—With director Robert Carsen’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, we now witness “the swansong of the Austrian Empire in the late 19th century with all the lavishness and decadence of the period” —John Holland
London Symphony Orchestra 0790 “It’s a supple and subtle performance, and one of its strongest assets is the consistently high standard of the orchestral playing.” —Wayne Gooding
Opera 5’s new production of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (seen Jun. 13) proves that a small,...
