By: Wah Keung Chan for MyScena.org 26-year-old mezzo-soprano Svetlina Stoyanova from Bulgaria and...
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Philippe Jordan: the low-key maestro who’s taking French opera to new heights
By Martin Kettle for the Guardian (UK) It is a lifetime since the Austrian conductor Herbert von...
Tapestry Opera’s 2017-18 season kicks off with donated Bösendorfer piano
Tapestry Opera's 2017-2018 season has taken an unexpected, yet welcome, turn. The company has just...
Classical Opera/The Mozartists celebrate 20 years of music-making
Haydn’s ‘Representation of Chaos’ from The Creation was a fitting opener, presenting as it does...
Gregory Dahl from Scarpia to Rigoletto
Thank heaven for seniority. As a 28-year-old teacher of choral music in Winnipeg, Gregory Dahl did...
Bampton Classical Opera Young Singers’ Competition 2017
The previous winners were mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevych (2013) and soprano Galina Averina...
13 opera myths, busted
"Opera singers come in all shapes, sizes and ages," says soprano Simone Osborne. "We wear jeans,...
Peter Kellner announced as winner of 2018 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Voice Fellowship
The following evening, on Friday 6 October, IO presented its inaugural Voice Scholars’ recital,...
Back to Baroque and to the battle lines with English Touring Opera
Romeo and Juliet, Rinaldo and Armida, Ramadès and Aida: love thwarted by warring countries and...
A murdered composer, a lost libretto…could this be Canada’s greatest opera?
Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork....