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Esprit Orchestra Marks Ontario’s 150th Anniversary

By Newswire on 31 October 2017 Canadian Music, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal

Esprit Orchestra Marks Ontario’s 150th Anniversary with Expanded Music Education Program Esprit has expanded its annual education and outreach programming in major ways for the 2017/18 season. The cornerstone project this season will be Ontario Resonance, a free student mentorship program to mark the 150th Anniversary of Ontario. Running from September to November, the program focuses on the creation of new music by students with the theme of Ontario places, sounds, and cultural ties. Professional composers mentor students in six schools in the GTA region, providing them with hands-on performance and composition opportunities. The program incorporates multiple artistic disciplines, and…

Royal Opera House’s la Bohème screens in major us markets

By Newswire on 30 October 2017 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE’S LA BOHÈME SCREENS IN MAJOR US MARKETS ON NOVEMBER 1 The Royal Opera House’s 2017/2018 Cinema Series continues with director Richard Jones’ acclaimed new production of Puccini’s La bohème. The screening will run in major markets on Wednesday, November 1, including: New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Denver, Washington DC, San Francisco, St. Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Albany, among other cities. Cinemagoers can also find screenings near them at the following link: https://www.roh.org.uk/cinemas The production is conducted by Antonio Pappano. The cast features Mariusz Kwiecień as Marcello, US-born tenor Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo, Luca Tittoto as Colline, Florian Sempey as Schaunard, Jeremy…

Simone McIntosh

By Adrian Rodriguez on 12 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Simone McIntosh Wirth Vocal Prize By Adrian Rodriguez Last year was filled with prolific achievements for Vancouver Canadian mezzo-soprano, Simone McIntosh. She won the Wirth Vocal Prize, obtained a Masters in Music from McGill University, and received first prize at the Canadian Opera Company’s 2016 Ensemble Studio Competition. McIntosh attributes her early success to a love of performing. “All I want is to enjoy myself and have fun. There is nothing more exhilarating than those ten seconds right before going on stage. I harness this incredible energy and commit to the music and drama. Ultimately, I love performing so much,…

L'Étoile de Chabrier (2013) Photo: Bonnallie-Brodeur

Quebec’s Opéra Bouffe

By Hassan Laghcha on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Prepares to blow its 40th candle! They are all of different ages and professional backgrounds, but they all share the same passion: Operetta. Everyone has a very special history that led them to the Opéra bouffe du Québec. La Scena Musicale went to meet all the beautiful people who sing there and was able to preview the final preparations for their annual show in November. It is Wednesday, 7 pm, in the basement of the church of Bon-Pasteur in Laval. The tension is palpable among the thirty volunteer choristers who are preparing to take one of their final rehearsals under…

Magda Olivero – La Verissima – Part II

By Denis Robert on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Having had the honour of presenting this great lady was one of the memorable pleasures of my years spent at the Metropolitan.” – M. Chapin Following my first article on Magda Olivero, I would now like to relate my adventure through the various stages that allowed me to better understand the Olivero phenomenon. After recording the performance of Adriana Lecouvreur in Hartford in 1969, I decided to pursue my idea to record and archive all her performances. So I joined her in Dallas where she sang Fedora in Giordano’s opera of the same name, and a second recording was added…

Lois Marshall – An Appreciation

By Howard Dyck on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Lois Marshall was internationally regarded as one of the great sopranos of our time. And while she was blessed with a superb natural voice, it was the deeply emotional, personal, heartfelt dimension of her singing that was so distinctive. Her strength of character was borne out of adversity. At the age of two, she was struck down with polio which crippled her legs. Although her disability prevented her from achieving international recognition on the opera stage (she did sing some opera, most notably with the CBC Opera Company in the 1940s and 50s), she enjoyed an illustrious career as a…

Some Great Canadian Sopranos

By Pierre Chénier on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

For this issue of La Scena Musicale, I have chosen four sopranos of our time, active on the national and international stage: Adrianne Pieczonka, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Karina Gauvin and Suzie LeBlanc. Aside from their talent, I chose them to illustrate the voices, genres and styles that exist among our artists. Adrianne Pieczonka was born in the United States and at age 2, moved with her family to Burlington, Ontario. In an international career that took her to all major stages, she moved to Europe in the 1980s and returned to Canada in Toronto in 2005. Adrianne Pieczonka possesses a large operatic voice,…

Interview with Raphaëlle Paquette

By Patricia Weber on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Having toured the world for nearly six years in the part of Cristal in the opera Starmania, soprano Raphaëlle Paquette has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in Quebec. The classically trained singer, dancer and pianist has now turned her attention to pop music and mixed genres — for example in her Duo Cheek to Cheek — and often performs in nursing homes. The week of October 21–28 finds her playing Gilda in Opéra de Québec’s Rigoletto. As part of our coverage of the new season, Raphaëlle spoke to us openly about the challenges of opera singing and the realities of a…

Dress rehearsal of Manitoba Opera's production of Die Fledermaus at the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. Falke (Gregory Dahl) sings praise to the joys of wine, good fellowship and love. The comic operetta opens Saturday, November 25 with additional performances on November 28 and December 1.

Gregory Dahl from Scarpia to Rigoletto

By Arthur Kaptainis on 11 October 2017 Opera, Vocal

Thank heaven for seniority. As a 28-year-old teacher of choral music in Winnipeg, Gregory Dahl did not have any. Which meant he was among the first to be laid off when the high school at which he worked decided to downsize. “I had this epiphany,” the baritone said before an open rehearsal of Puccini’s Tosca in Place-des-Arts. “I was in teaching, which I think is a stable job. And this stable job was unstable. For years I wanted to be on stage. I denied it to myself. Finally, I said, that’s it, I’m going to try it.” The baritone had…

Gregory Charles – Citizen involvement

By Hassan Laghcha on 11 October 2017 Opera, Piano, Vocal

“We have the responsibility that no Mozart be murdered.” The good is achieved through beauty.” This is how Gregory Charles sums up Piano and Voice, the 2017 Cardinal Léger benefit concert he will host with tenor Marc Hervieux on November 5 at Maison symphonique. This major musical charity event — a benefit for the Léger Foundation’s Feed a Child program — also features two young musicians from the Radio-Canada television show Virtuose. This performance benefits from the chemistry between Gregory and Marc. Both artists are characterized by their refusal to compartmentalize artistic work. Their unbounded love for music is part…

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