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By Hye Won Cecilia Lee on July 30, 2025
The strong traditional French pride is well alive at Le Son Continu, a four-day weekend festival of social dance, ‘folk bals’, regional cuisine, music, and master instrument makers.
(Continue reading)By Hye Won Cecilia Lee on July 14, 2025
The song festival, Eesti Üldlaulupidu, commonly called Laulupidu, first held in 1869 in Tartu, led Estonians through difficult times.
(Continue reading)By Anya Wassenberg on December 12, 2024
Sister and brother classical music duo Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason were forced to cancel their Toronto appearance after a series of airline mishaps scuttled their travel plans.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on August 6, 2024
My 2024 Munich Opera sojourn concluded with two Puccini crowd pleasers, Tosca and La fanciulla del West — what’s not to like?
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on February 28, 2024
The Bayerische Staatsoper offered a splendid production of Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
(Continue reading)By Anya Wassenberg on January 24, 2024
Violinist and guest director Aisslinn Nosky will return to Tafelmusik to perform in the Passions Revealed program in Toronto and on tour in the US.
(Continue reading)By Anya Wassenberg on November 20, 2023
They stay longer, spend more, and come from afar — a new report by the Ontario Arts Council details what the arts and culture tourism adds to the province.
(Continue reading)By Paula Citron on March 12, 2020
Ratmansky’s choreography, Prokofiev’s glorious music, and wonderful performances by dancers Elena Lobsanova and an ageless Guillaume Côté make for pure stage magic in the National Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet'.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on February 7, 2020
All in all, the COC's production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel is a feel-good show ideal for the dreary Toronto winter.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 30, 2016
In mid-March each year, thousands of kids — American and Canadian — head for the beaches of Sarasota, on Florida’s West Coast, for “spring break”. Increasingly, opera-lovers too have made Sarasota a mid-March destination — not for the beaches, but for the acoustically first-rate and pleasingly small (only 1,100 seats) Sarasota Opera House.
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