By Michael Vincent on June 28, 2016
It was a night of celebration at the 37th annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards at Toronto's Harbour Front Centre, with the Canadian Opera Company taking home eight of the ten statues up for grabs in the Opera division.
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By Joseph So on February 29, 2016
Musical Toronto’s weekly Critic’s Picks are a fully curated list of some of the best concerts happening now through the end of the week. (Feb. 29 - Mar. 6)
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By Joseph So on January 22, 2015
Don Giovanni has always been among the most popular operas in the standard repertoire. A quick check of the statistics from the last five seasons puts it at No. 10, out of a total of 2,581 operas performed by over 900 companies worldwide. Not only is it held in the highest regard by opera lovers, and scholars, but composers the likes of Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Flaubert and George Bernard Shaw also had nothing but praise for this dramma giacoso.
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