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Segal Centre Announces 2025–2026 Season & New Fund Honouring Lisa Rubin
Montreal, May 8, 2025 – The Segal Centre for Performing Arts is thrilled to announce its 2025- 2026 Theatre Season, an exciting lineup that celebrates…
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Review | Asitha Tennekoon Interrogates the Immigrant Experience at WMCT
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon’s May 8th recital at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto explored the…
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Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Explores AI
Roy Thomson Hall was filled from the main floor to the choir loft on May…
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2.0Lebrecht Weekly | Wilhelm Furtwängler Under Neeme Järvi: A 2nd Symphony Going Nowhere
What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of…
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra Appoints Nicholas Sharma as RBC Resident Conductor & Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno are pleased to announce the appointment of conductor Nicholas Sharma as…
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Justin Saulnier and Sabina Sandvoss Awarded 2025 Michael Measures Prizes
The Canada Council for the Arts has the immense pleasure of recognizing the following promising…
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Ottawa Chamberfest Welcomes Cate Proctor as Executive Director
OTTAWA, ON – Ottawa Chamberfest is delighted to announce the appointment of Cate Proctor as its new Executive…
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The 34th Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur program unveiled
Saint-Sauveur, May 6th, 2025. For its 34th season, from July 23rd to August 3rd, FASS, now the largest…
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Review | The Big Roar: Chor Leoni’s Heartwarming Celebration of Choral Music
On May 3, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts was filled with the enthusiastic…
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A new assistant conductor at OM: Léa Moisan-Perrier
Montreal, May 5, 2025 – Montreal conductor Léa Moisan-Perrier becomes the Orchestre Métropolitain’s new assistant…
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Metcalf Foundation Announces Five Winners for 2025 Johannas
METCALF FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FIVE WINNERS OF THE 2025 JOHANNA METCALF PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES A TOTAL…
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Review | London Symphony Orchestra’s Joyous The Excursions of Mr Brouček
The satirical stories of Svatopluk Čech may not be well known to Anglophone readers, yet…
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Review | Singing Launches COC Eugene Onegin into Season-Best Status
Canadian director Robert Carsen’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was originally created for the Metropolitan…
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5.0Lebrecht Weekly | Martha Argerich Edition (Warner Classics, 46 CDs)
Some artists stop at nothing to get attention. Others shy away from it like birds…
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Pro Musica Prodigy Concert: Sergey Khachatryan & Lusine Khachatryan
Sergey Khachatryan (violin) and Lusine Khachatryan (piano) Pro Musica Prodigy Season Closing Concert May 18th,…
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Salle Bourgie’s 15th Anniversary: Building on Success
By: Madeline Boldt and Adrian Rodriguez Salle Bourgie marked its 15th anniversary on April 29…
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Competitors Announced for Banff International String Quartet Competition
Ten of the world’s finest quartets from Europe, Asia, and North America will congregate at…
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Review | Vancouver Opera Brings Respect and Care to Madama Butterfly
Although acclaimed as one of Giacomo Puccini’s greatest works, Madama Butterfly has received plenty of…
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City Opera Vancouver presents the Canadian Premiere of ‘Sophia’s Forest’
Blending traditional operatic storytelling with cutting-edge innovation, the poignant chamber opera explores the wounds of…
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Review | COC’s Wozzeck is a Complete Work of Art
It has been a bit of a wait, but South African artist William Kentridge’s production…
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4.0Lebrecht Weekly | Fresh and Lyrical Accounts of Britten & Shostakovich Cello Works
The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal…
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Review | Pacific Opera Victoria Captures the Timelessness of Rigoletto
On Apr. 23, Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) premiered a new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto…
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2025 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards recipients announced
(Calgary AB) – The 2025 Cultural Leaders Legacy Arts Awards were announced at the Celebration for the…
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Ottawa Chamberfest announces 2025 festival lineup
Ottawa, ON – Chamberfest is back this summer with a bold celebration of chamber music…
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Concerts aux Îles du Bic announces its new Artistic Director
RIMOUSKI, APRIL 24, 2025 — Concert aux Îles du Bic, a cherished chamber music festival proudly…

Review | Asitha Tennekoon Interrogates the Immigrant Experience at WMCT
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon’s May 8th recital at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto explored the idea of Belonging. The first…

Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Explores AI
Roy Thomson Hall was filled from the main floor to the choir loft on May 7. The concert program features…

Lebrecht Weekly | Wilhelm Furtwängler Under Neeme Järvi: A 2nd Symphony Going Nowhere
What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of his overlong second symphony and…

Review | Asitha Tennekoon Interrogates the Immigrant Experience at WMCT
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon’s May 8th recital at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto explored the idea of Belonging. The first…

Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Explores AI
Roy Thomson Hall was filled from the main floor to the choir loft on May 7. The concert program features…

Review | The Big Roar: Chor Leoni’s Heartwarming Celebration of Choral Music
On May 3, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts was filled with the enthusiastic voices of both young and…

Fall at the MBAM: The Museum’s collection takes the spotlight this season
While the major exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks continues its run until October 20 – and, already, it’s been seen by over 50,000 people – the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is preparing a host of offerings for this fall, including an opportunity to see more than 100 works that have recently entered the Museum’s collection.

Jacques Lacombe leaves l’Orchestre classique de Montréal
The Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) announces the departure of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Maestro Jacques Lacombe.

Report | Prix Opus: Homage to Pauline Vaillancourt
On Feb. 5, after two years and as many virtual occasions, the Prix Opus gala returned to the Salle…

David Potvin: Honouring Canadian Repertoire
Pianist David Potvin struggled to settle on a name for his debut album, which comes out on April 19 under Leaf Music.

New Releases (April-May 2024)
This section is an advertising supplement. To announce here, contact [email protected]. SONIX AND OTHER TONIX Jan Järvlepp, composer Trio Casals;…

New Releases (October 2023)
This section is an advertising supplement. To announce here, contact [email protected]. Etiquette Maureen Batt and Erin Bardua, soprano; Lucy Hayes…

The OSM and Rafael Payare unveil their 2025-2026 Season
Montreal, April 10, 2025 —Today, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal proudly unveils its 2025–2026 season. With sumptuous and varied programming…

Festival Classica 2025: From Keith Jarret to Abbey Road
Marc Boucher, founder and artistic director of Festival Classica, is a man with wide open ears. “An artistic director,” he…

Highlights | Canadians in Frankfurt; Women conductors on the move; Beethoven 9th is 200
In this week’s news highlights: there’s a shuffle going on with women conductors in Canada; Canadians in Oper Frankfurt’s 24-25 season; Beethoven #9 at 200

Alberta Ballet’s Francesco Ventriglia: “Alexey Shor’s Music is Perfect For A Thousand Tales Ballet”
Sponsored Article by A Thousand Tales Press Office Transporting audiences to a fantastical world filled with fairytale magic, A Thousand…

To Ravel and Unravel Maurice Ravel at MMFA
What links French Impressionist composer Maurice Ravel with the Venice Biennale and American minimalist composer Steve Reich? Their association might…

La Route des concerts: Paving the Way for Regional Presenters
Established in 2022, La Route des concerts continues to expand. It now welcomes an increasing number of partners into its…

Lebrecht Weekly | Wilhelm Furtwängler Under Neeme Järvi: A 2nd Symphony Going Nowhere
What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of his overlong second symphony and…

Lebrecht Weekly | Martha Argerich Edition (Warner Classics, 46 CDs)
Some artists stop at nothing to get attention. Others shy away from it like birds of an endangered species. No…

Lebrecht Weekly | Fresh and Lyrical Accounts of Britten & Shostakovich Cello Works
The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal or soloist appreciation. Premiered on…

Sergio Barza’s Favourite Art Song
La Scena Musicale is celebrating the Art Song with the worldwide survey, What is your favourite art song? Submit your vote at www.nextgreatartsong.com. Conductor Sergio…

Death of Tenor Alain Nonat
La Scena is sad to learn of the passing of tenor Alain Nonat on Dec. 31, 2024 at the age…

Remembering Kazuyoshi Akiyama (1941-2025)
Legendary Japanese conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama has passed away at the age of 84. A cornerstone of Vancouver’s classical music scene,…

Conductor Sir Andrew Davis, 80, Dies
Sir Andrew Davis, former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, died of Leukemia on Saturday, at the age of 80.…

Wednesday Healdlines: Notre-Dame Basilica at the heart of Montreal 375 festivities in new luminous project
Here are your daily headlines in classical music and the arts! After the illumination of Jacques-Cartier Bridge, the Montreal-based firm…

This Day in Music – 1916: Rayén Quitral was Born
A hundred years ago this week, on November 7, 1916, soprano Rayén Quitral was born in the small village of…

This Day in Music – 1856: Death of Robert Schumann
Romantic composer Robert Schuman died of pneumonia on this day in music in 1856. The young Schumann wasn’t the most…

The OSM and Rafael Payare unveil their 2025-2026 Season
Montreal, April 10, 2025 —Today, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal proudly unveils its 2025–2026 season. With sumptuous and varied programming…

Opening concert: After the Virée classique, the OSM returns to the choral repertoire
On Tuesday, September 12, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) launches its 90th season with two musical masterpieces of the…

Preview | SMCQ présents : Amitiés et étrangeté
On September 24, 2023, the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) will present the fourth concert in their Hommage…

Toronto Dance: Hofesh Shechter at the Harbourfront Centre
Joy and excitement ! The Harbourfront Centre welcomes the incomparable United Kingdom-based Hofesh Shechter Company and its highly anticipated Double Murder for…
This Week in Toronto (May 6 – 12)
Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963)Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, the third of three productions of the Canadian Opera Company’s…
This Week in Toronto (Nov. 5 – 11)
Canadian soprano Edith Wiens gives masterclass at University of TorontoNow that both the Canadian Opera Company and Opera Atelier have…

Monday Headlines: Review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Maison Symphonique
On Saturday, the reputable Boston Symphony Orchestra played at the Maison Symphonique. The last time the orchestra visited Montreal was…

Tuesday Headlines: Positive reviews for Opera Lafayette’s ‘Léonare, ou l’Amour Conjugal’ in New York
Opera Lafayette is getting many positive reviews for their production of Léonare, ou l’Amour Conjugal, which has an all Canadian…

Video of the Day – Conducting with Yannick Nézet-Séguin
In today’s Video of the Day, maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin gives us a crash course in orchestral conducting, describing his process.…

Toronto Symphony Orchestra Appoints Nicholas Sharma as RBC Resident Conductor & Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno are pleased to announce the appointment of conductor Nicholas Sharma as the TSO’s next RBC Resident Conductor and…

Ottawa Chamberfest Welcomes Cate Proctor as Executive Director
OTTAWA, ON – Ottawa Chamberfest is delighted to announce the appointment of Cate Proctor as its new Executive Director – effective May 5, 2025.…
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