SCRUTINY | The Return of Ulysses Marks A Major Departure For Opera Atelier
By Stephan Bonfield on April 20, 2018
Instead of being called The Return of Ulysses, the opera ought to have been called The Virtue of Penelope.
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By Stephan Bonfield on April 20, 2018
Instead of being called The Return of Ulysses, the opera ought to have been called The Virtue of Penelope.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 19, 2018
An-lun Huang's work deserveS to be better-known. And thanks to Toccata Classics, this album is a good place to start.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on April 17, 2018
Nine years after Robert Lepage's production of The Nightingale and Other Short Fables, will lightning strike twice? Can it repeat that same magic? Joseph So offers his take.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on April 13, 2018
Soprano Sylvia Schwartz and the excellent pianist Olivier Godin hit their stride at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 10, 2018
Batiashvili and Nézet-Séguin team up again for some essential works for violin solo and chamber orchestra from Prokofiev.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on April 8, 2018
Bernstein@100 under the auspices of the Royal Conservatory of Music, was something special, thanks to the presence of Jamie Bernstein, the composer’s eldest daughter.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on April 6, 2018
Sir Andrew sent us home from Roy Thomson Hall in a hopeful frame of mind Thursday evening after a finely tooled performance of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony.
(Continue reading)By John Terauds on April 5, 2018
"For Glenn Gould" provides his own clear-headed renderings that make as much sense as the original, yet sound only like Goodyear.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 2, 2018
Jaap van Zweden doesn’t officially take over as music director of the New York Philharmonic until September 2018, but their new album hints at the possibilities.
(Continue reading)By Arthur Kaptainis on March 30, 2018
Even if it feels like something less than a full-blooded opera, The Overcoat is a brilliant theatrical enterprise that can be appreciated for the virtuosity with which Panych (also the director) enlivens the stage.
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