COC’s Barber of Seville, a Night of Fun and Laughter
With its popular, catchy tunes, Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is a perennial favourite comic opera. It was given a vibrant interpretation by the…
Yearly Archives: 2020
The OFF Jazz will hold a benefit concert on January 30, 2020 in support of its mission and activities
The OFF Jazz will hold a benefit concert on January 30, 2020 in support of its mission and activities. Buy your ticket to this unprecedented…
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Names New Music Director
JADER BIGNAMINI NAMED MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Initial six-year contract to begin in 2020-2021 season Jader conducts the DSO this weekend in…
Motezuma, Vivaldi’s Forgotten Opera
Newly reconstructed, the work is born again! Montreal, (Quebec), January 20, 2020 – Vivaldi’s opera Motezuma was discovered in the archives of the Berlin Sing-Akademie…
Debargue is a major artist, no contest
When Lucas Debargue won fourth prize at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, many spectators took the apparent slight as a ringing endorsement of his…
Gala des prix Opus, 23rd edition Sunday, January 19, 2020
And the winners are (Montréal, Sunday, January 19, 2020) – The 23rd edition of the Conseil québécois de la musique’s Opus Awards Gala was held…
Renowned Pianist Dmitri Levkovich Steps in On a Short Notice
“…irresistibly intoxicating level of artistic sophistication far above the ordinary…” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung RACHMANINOFF’S THIRD SYMPHONY: DMITRI LEVKOVICH MAKES HIS KSO DÉBUT REPLACING MARY KENEDI. Pianist…
Fabio Luisi Begins New Era with Dallas Symphony
DALLAS, TX – Jaap van Zweden is gone and Fabio Luisi doesn’t take over until the 2020-2021 season, but the new man is stopping…
Bader and Overton Canadian Cello Competition Semi-Finalists Announced
Kingston, Ontario – The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University has announced the eight semi-finalists for the BADER AND OVERTON CANADIAN…
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 3 and 4 (Hyperion)
With Australia in flames, Italian cities choked by smog and parts of Canada enjoying an unseasonal thaw, I’m listening to Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony,…
