Cultural appropriation is making headlines in Canada again from a source that comes as unexpected to many.  The Arnaqquasaaq Collective, a group of Inuit women artists, took to social media to call out the Indigenous Music Awards (IMA,) and one of its nominees earlier this month for appropriating Inuit throat singing.

Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of April 22 – 28.

Gustavo Gimeno raises a keeps a tight grip on this Luxembourg performance with the local orchestra, the Vienna Singakademie and three Italians out of four soloists.

In the wake of yet another conductor abruptly dropping out due to illness from a major TSO event, Matthew Halls steps in to score a triumph with Mahler's Resurrection Symphony.

Canadian Opera Company's revamped 2013 production of La Bohème comes equipped with an unfettered concept, fine singing, and a committed cast.

When you are a parent to a child on the autism spectrum, your options for family fun can be severely limited. That’s a problem the Toronto Symphony Orchestra aims to help with by presenting a Relaxed Performance Concert in a format designed for neurodiverse audiences on April 27.

Sight gags, pratfalls, gimmicks, sound effects, not to mention hovering helicopters, leaking roofs, and fires — all the tools of physical farce drive Bigre at Canadian Stage.

In culture, we build bridges, not walls. A country is not a hotel and it’s not full.” —  Yo-Yo Ma

Classical music and opera events happening in and around Toronto for the week of April 15 – 21.

A packed house was on hand at the Citadel for Four Old Legs, the new duet that revered choreographer James Kudelka’s created for Hart and Zhenya Cerneacov.