Ahead of her performance at Koerner Hall this Sunday, we caught up with the rising young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana back-stage for an informal interview that had sweet, fiery and pistachio tasting notes.

This isn’t drawn from the pages of Maclean’s or a Torontoist post of 2014, but a nearly 300-year-old line from The Beggar’s Opera, a musical by John Gay that took London by storm in 1728.

Talisker tries to mix words and music in all of its concerts, but this is a rarer instance where there are specific links where one directly influences the other.

While many festivals struggle for years establish themselves against dwindling attendance and funding, Stratford Summer Music seems somehow, to make it all look so easy.

The great American Wagnerian soprano Christine Goerke gives a free-ranging and candid interview on her life and art.

In a wide-ranging interview, the British soprano shares her secret on maintaining a sense of artistic wonder in a long operatic journey.

Torontonian Christopher Mokrzewski is one of those bright, eager, whip-smart young artists who could give even the most hardened cynic a jolt of optimism about the future of classical music and opera.

Summer 2013 was supposed to have started on Thursday afternoon, actually, but the first two performances had to be cancelled because soprano Larissa Koniuk was laid low — not from a road injury, but from a nasty, old-fashioned summer cold.

Ahead of her performance in Rufus Wainright’s opera Hadrian in just a few weeks, Soprano Ambur Braid sat down for a few important questions, including that time she fired a gun, character flaws, and the thing that makes her the happiest.

Against The Grain Theatre brings Puccini’s La bohème back to the dive bar.