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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 Michael Vincent on June 1, 2016
If classical music is ever going move beyond a reputation for stiff upper lips, it's time to start to look hard at the conventions that have formed around the concert ritual.
(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 first three of six hopefuls take the stage for the Finals of the 2016 Montreal International Musical Competition.
(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 30, 2016
Critic’s Picks for classical music and opera events in Toronto for the Week of May 30 to June 5.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on May 30, 2016
Shakespeare in Music & Words is a mixed bag, to be sure, but for a bargain price, most Shakespeare fans and music-lovers will find much to enjoy on this CD.
(Continue reading)By Joseph So on May 30, 2016
The evergreen American soprano Kathleen Battle remains magical in a program of spirituals at Roy Thomson Hall.
(Continue reading)By Michael Vincent on May 28, 2016
Toronto contemporary music bad boy John Oswald creates music in the dark as part of RCM's 21C Music Festival, and what an experience it was.
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