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By Michael Vincent on January 28, 2015
The 44th Annual JUNO Award Nominees have just been released. Each will participate in the 2015 JUNO Awards and JUNO Week celebrations over March 9-15. The awards will be broadcast on CTV from FirstOntario Centre on Sunday, March 15, 2015...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 22, 2015
Have you ever wanted to ask the TSO’s movers and shakers a question? Now is your chance. On Thursday, January 29 at 11:45am EST, Music Director Peter Oundjian and CEO Jeff Melanson will be participating in a live Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 22, 2015
Announced this morning by the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa, Tafelmusik has been awarded the 2015 National Arts Centre Award for Distinguished Contribution to Touring in the Performing Arts...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 21, 2015
Around this time last year, Opera Hamilton made the announcement that due to a lack of funding, it was closing its doors for good. It wasn’t the first time Hamilton has lost an opera company. Opera Hamilton’s predecessor, Opera Ontario, went bankrupt in 2008, and despite moving from Hamilton Place to the Dofasco Theatre —(a smaller venue designed to cut costs) it wasn’t enough to balance the books...
(Continue reading)By Neil Crory on January 16, 2015
On Wednesday evening the Canadian Opera Company announced its 2015-2016 season in Grand Opera style. No exclusive little cocktail party for a handful of press here – instead General Director, Alexander Neef went straight to his public and pulled out all the stops. Over a 90 minute programme he offered the crowd of over 1700 an 'event' overflowing with informal chat, Q & As, video segments, interviews, live music, surprise guest singers, a full orchestra conducted by COC Music Director, Johannes Debus - and the complete Act II finale of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Brent Bambury, the affable CBC Radio One host, functioned as moderator and kept the various elements moving along in a quick and orderly fashion. With the massive set for Richard Wagner's Die Walküre in the background, all that was missing was the chorus...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 14, 2015
Tonight marks the Canadian Opera Company’s Season Launch Event ushering in a new season, and a number of exciting new initiatives for Canada's premiere opera company. Musical Toronto’s opera expert, Neil Crory will be on hand to cover the event, and also discuss the news with COC General Director, Alexander Neef. Until then, here is a brief overview as well as the entire press release reprinted below...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 9, 2015
In honour of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, the Allegri Quartet organized a massive ensemble of 150 string players to perform Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings in London’s Trafalgar Square last night. By all accounts it was an extraordinary and moving tribute...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 7, 2015
Rock icon Courtney Love has been cast as the star of Todd Almond's Kansas City Choir Boy, an experimental opera staged by the Prototype Festival at the Manhattan Arts Centre on January 8...
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on January 5, 2015
On 30 December 2014, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) released the long-awaited final administrative rule which fully implements Section 403 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2012 – the law authorizing musical instruments as carry-on baggage onboard US air carriers...
(Continue reading)By Robert Harris on December 18, 2014
The rapid unraveling of Orchestra London continued Thursday as London City Council refused to advance the beleaguered organization any additional funds to cover their rapidly deteriorating financial situation. With a gallery packed with students, members of the Orchestra and the general public, Mayor Matt Brown said “it is a tough decision to say no (to the orchestra), but we need to hit the re-set button”
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