Manitoba Opera trumpeted goodness as it opened its auspicious 50th anniversary season with Rossini’s La Cenerentola, an ideal choice for pandemic-weary audiences stage directed by Winnipeg’s Robert Herriot, and notably its first full-scale production since its...
Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) has announced the world premiere of a new theatrical song cycle this December, inspired by the work of filmmaker and queer activist Derek Jarman. The piece, Unruly Sun, will play for one night only in Montreal on Thursday, December 1, 2022 in commemoration of World AIDS Day.
On November 15, 2022, the 2023 GRAMMY nominations were announced. Most notably, Canadian maestro Yannick Nézét-Séguin has FIVE nominations. We have compiled clips from all of the CLASSICAL MUSIC nominated projects. Congratulations to all the nominees! To read the...
Patience can be amply rewarded: Teatro Nuovo’s Maometto Secondo, thrice deferred, at last hit the New York stage (Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, on November 2) and proved the best thing Will Crutchfield’s period-practicing aggregation has done in the four and...
Continuing our recent coverage of Teatro alla Scala’s The Tempest, our Artist of the Week happens to be another notable Canadian debuting in Robert Lepage’s imagerich production, tenor Josh Lovell. He has made a number of exciting house debuts this year, first this summer at Glyndebourne Festival as Ernesto in Don Pasquale and earlier this month, at Teatro all Scala as Ferdinand in The Tempest.
The 2022/23 season will be a busy one for Quebec-born tenor Frédéric Antoun, marking a number of notable debuts: first, a role debut in February as Narraboth in Canadian Opera Company's Salome, followed by another debut as Don José in Opéra Comique's new production of...
Audiences can look forward to Lizzy Hoyt’s upcoming performance in Manitoba Opera’s La Cenerentola, a mid-century modern-inspired adaption of Rossini’s classic running from November 12-18.
On Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, Edmonton Opera (EO) held the finale for its first Rumbold Vocal Prize competition at the Jubilee Auditorium. The core principles of the annual Rumbold Vocal Prize are to provide financial assistance, experience and exposure to emerging...
I Musici de Montreal chamber orchestra continues its season this November, welcoming sought-after Quebec harpist Valérie Milot and renowned Canadian conductor Tania Miller with a Parisien-inspired program that fuses impressionism with romanticism.
Edmonton Opera opened its three-show season on October 22 with a compelling production of Puccini’s Tosca. It will be the only traditional take on a canonic work in Artistic Director Joel Ivany’s first crack at designing an Edmonton Opera season. Productions of Cosi...
Our Artist of the Week is internationally acclaimed Philadelphia-born soprano Karen Slack, who opened Edmonton Opera's Tosca this week singing the title role. A well recognized voice on many of the world's leading stages, Slack's performance has already earned praise...
Some operas have grown on me over the years; some productions have, too. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is one of those operas, and Graham Vick’s Metropolitan Opera staging of it is one of those productions. I’d always respected Shostakovich’s trenchant troublemaker of 1934,...