Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin is our Artist of the Week. This week, Gauvin sings The Human Requiem (Brahms’s Requiem) alongside Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins with the Colorado Symphony conducted by Canadian-American Peter Oundjian (performances run from March 24 to 26).
Our Artist of the Week is Toronto-born soprano Elizabeth Polese. This weekend, she makes her role debut with Opéra de Montréal singing Nuria in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar running March 18 to 26. She sits down with us to reflect on life as an opera singer—the ups and downs, lessons learned, favourite places she’s worked, and more.
I didn’t much care for his Parsifal, and I liked his Flying Dutchman even less, but at the first intermission of Canadian François Girard’s new Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin (2 March) I had high hopes for its success. Tim Yip’s set was striking—what looked to be some...
Charlotte Lee founded Primo Artists in 2015; the classical music artist management agency repress A-list artists like Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, and Wynton Marsalis.
Our Winter print issue’s ‘New on the Scene’ artist is collaborative pianist, Brian Cho, who is currently in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio Program.
Kwagiulth and Stó:lō First Nations mezzo soprano Marion Newman is currently in Anchorage, Alaska rehearsing for Anchorage Opera’s production of Missing, opening March 10. In this OPERA PLACES, Newman takes us to some of her favourite spots!
Our artist of the week is Calgary-born soprano Aviva Fortunata. This week she makes her role and company debut with Sarasota Opera singing Elvira in Verdi’s Ernani. She sat down with us to reflect on her career in opera, stage mishaps and the best advice she’s ever received.
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, directed by Deborah Warner at the Paris Opera this season, was perhaps one of the best opera productions of the last decade. Contributing to this was the phenomenal alignment of major stars from Warner to the Canadian stage designer...
As Global Executive Advisor at Salesforce JULIE HANSEN’S success is tied to her ability to apply cross-disciplinary expertise to simplify complex problems.
Walter Braunfels’s Die Vögel (The Birds) is a very odd duck. Part allegory, part buffo, part mythological fantasy and serious commentary on the hubris of man, it must have been the challenge of a lifetime for stage director Glynis Leyshon to wrangle this opera into...
Our Artist of the Week is Kyle Albertson, who also stars as Prometheus in Pacific Opera Victoria’s The Birds. A frequent performer on many of the world’s leading stages, Albertson is celebrated for his luxurious voice and versatility at bringing characters to life on stage.
I wondered what I was in for when I read the front of the opera program: “A Modern opera about social equity, Vodou, and Zombies.” But as soon as the first act began, I knew that I had entered a fascinating world created by a gifted composer, an eloquent librettist,...