SCRUTINY | Letters from Munich: Tosca
By Joseph So on July 3, 2016
Bayerische Staatsoper's summer production of Puccini's Tosca: a Greek, a German, a Welshman, with a Russian at the helm, and not an Italian in sight.
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By Joseph So on July 3, 2016
Bayerische Staatsoper's summer production of Puccini's Tosca: a Greek, a German, a Welshman, with a Russian at the helm, and not an Italian in sight.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 28, 2016
The Bells of Baddeck: Soprano/Voice Teacher/Librettist/Producer Lorna Macdonald talks about her labour of love.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 27, 2016
The Pencil Salesman, albeit a bit of a work in progress, is a welcome addition to the Canadian canon of contemporary music drama.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 18, 2016
The Bells of Baddeck, an opera on the lives of Alexander Graham and Mabel Bell by Canadian composer Dean Burry has won the Parks Canada CEO Award of Excellence (Visitor Experience Category), at a ceremony held in Gatineau, Quebec on June 13, 2016.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on June 9, 2016
Musical Toronto visits Charleston, South Carolina for the 40th-anniversary of the Spoleto Festival, including their first-ever production of Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on June 2, 2016
Announced today, Montreal-born Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be the next music director of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company beginning 2020-21.
(Continue reading)By Robin Roger on June 1, 2016
As a supplement to our recent review of Tapestry Opera's Rocking Horse Winner, Robin Roger offers some ideas as to central artistic decision collaborators made by making the protagonist autistic.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on June 1, 2016
Even in an operatically well-endowed city like Toronto, it’s rare to experience a production where everything comes together as neatly and powerfully as in Rocking Horse Winner, a new hour-long work being premiered by Tapestry Opera at the Berkeley Street Theatre.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on May 31, 2016
The 37th annual Dora Mavor Moore Award nominees have been announced, with the COC in the lead for a total of 24 nominations in the opera division.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on May 18, 2016
Soprano Karine Boucher and tenor Charles Sy offer a fine end to a marvellous 2015/16 COC Vocal Series.
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