Review | OM’s Staged Little Prince Produces Mixed Results
The magic of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s classic children’s story, can be largely ascribed to the synesthetic nature of the work itself.…
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Review | Medieval meets folk with Les Idées heureuses
On Nov. 12, Les Idées heureuses presented their second concert of the season at Bourgie Hall. Jamais je ne t’oublierai : échos du Moyen Âge…
Review | Intriguingly ambiguous new Turandot at Hungarian State Opera
Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was famously left incomplete due to the composer’s untimely death. It premiered at Teatro alla Scala in 1926 using composer Franco…
Review | Musica Pacifica – Rockstars of Early Flemish Music
On October 23, 2024, the stage of Bourgie Hall was graced with the presence of one of America’s premiere baroque ensembles, Musica Pacifica, which presented…
Review | Ariana Maubach wins COC competition
The Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage Ensemble Studio Competition is one of the most exciting events in Canada’s opera world. Now in its 11th year,…
TSO Delights with Romantic Bruch & Rachmaninoff
Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Oct. 24th program featured two beloved Romantic works: Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G major, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No.…
Review | COC’s Faust a Devilishly Dazzling New Production
Few legendary figures have inspired more literary, cinematic, ballet and musical works than Faust. Numerous symphonic and operatic pieces have been written by famous composers…
Review | Nabucco makes a triumphant, belated COC debut
The Canadian Opera Company opens its 2024-25 season with Nabucco. It is hard to believe that the opera that launched Giuseppe Verdi’s career has never…
Review | Renaud Capuçon plays splendid Mozart with Gimeno & the TSO
French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been a favourite of mine for some years now – especially in the music of Mozart – but this was…
Review | Rhapsody in Blue‘s 100th: Romance and American Jazz with Jean-Philippe Sylvestre
George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898; it was only fitting that his most beloved piece Rhapsody in Blue, written 100 years ago, would…
