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CANADIANS NEXT ON STAGE
Wozzeck Berg
Canadian Opera Company
BUS Opera Rebecca Gray
Sullivan Fortner Trio and Barbra Lica Quintet Various
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Madama Butterfly Puccini
Vancouver Opera
Vancouver, BC
Free Concert Series: Songs and Suppression: A Musical Journey out of Exile Walter Braunfels
Canadian Opera Company
Toronto, ON
Text from The COC website:
Samuel Chan, baritone;
Constanze Beckmann, piano
NOVEMBER 7, 2023 AT 12:00PM
Four Seasons Centre of the Performing Arts, Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
Through an exploratory program of art songs by Jewish-German composers, Jewish-German pianist Constanze Beckmann and Singaporean Chinese-Canadian baritone Samuel Chan explore topics of xenophobia, racism, exile, and personal/artistic suppression through the contrasting musical styles of the late Romanticism of Walter Braunfels with the serialism, atonalism, and jazz influences of Hanns Eisler’s Hollywood Songbook.
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