SCRUTINY | Against the Grain’s ‘Messiah/Complex’ Finds A Radical Strength
By Stephan Bonfield on December 14, 2020
Against the Grain’s reimagining of Handel's classic offers a way forward in our conflicted land.
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By Stephan Bonfield on December 14, 2020
Against the Grain’s reimagining of Handel's classic offers a way forward in our conflicted land.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on December 14, 2020
There is mostly good news, and a little not so good news, about Opera Atelier’s 'Something Rich & Strange'.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on December 7, 2020
The Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company has put together a Global Hanukkah Celebration involving 12 Jewish theatres from ten countries.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on December 6, 2020
A very strange thing happened when Maestro Johannes Debus began to conduct the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra in Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont which opened the RCM concert at Koerner Hall. Paula Citron explains.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on November 29, 2020
Many forces have gone into the making of Syreeta Hector, all of which play a part in her heart-felt solo Black Ballerina.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on November 26, 2020
Imaginative writing and staging, and über-talented actor Natasha Mumba make 'acts of faith' a delightful livestream theatre experience.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on September 25, 2020
A talented and energetic cast bring live theatre back to Toronto with Second City's 'Safer, Shorter & Still So Funny'.
(Continue reading)By Anya Wassenberg on September 17, 2020
Stewart Goodyear has always worn his heart on his sleeve when it comes to Beethoven, and his love of the material emerges as a technically polished and musically graceful interpretation of all five piano concertos on Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos, an Orchid Classics release.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on August 28, 2020
Kaleb Alexander is brilliant in Wajdi Mouawad's 'Alphonse' - the first live theatre show in Toronto since the COVID lockdown.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on June 15, 2020
Joseph So reports on a webinar hosted by Sony Classical, and featuring tenor Jonas Kaufmann and Maestro Antonio Pappano to talk about their new recording of Verdi's Otello.
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