Lebrecht Weekly | The Most Convincing Performance of Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol on Record
The English conductor Sir Eugene Goossens was stopped in March 1956 on arrival at Sydney Airport. He was found to be in possession of pornographic…
Monthly Archives: February, 2025
Addio, Kennedy Center: Artists Depart Amid Donald Trump Becoming Chairman
A wave of departures has hit the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following President Donald Trump’s appointment as chairman. The leadership transition,…
Review | Joyce El-Khoury Triumphs as Médée in Paris
Premiered in Paris in 1797, Cherubini’s Médée was originally presented with a French libretto, based on Euripides’ play from Greek antiquity. It’s this version that is currently…
Review | Vancouver Opera’s Flight: Laugh Until You Cry
On Feb. 8, Vancouver Opera presented the local premiere of Jonathan Dove’s 1998 opera, Flight. This opera—inspired by the true story of an Iranian refugee…
The Royal Conservatory of Music announces preview of 2025/26 season
30 CONCERTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2025-26 SEASON Signature Fundraising Event Superstar soprano Renée Fleming presents Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene Recital featuring the Royal Conservatory…
Music makes us move even when we don’t like it
Montreal, Feb. 11 – The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we…
Review | Lisette Oropesa Triumphs in Misguided Paris I puritani
Bellini’s final opera, I puritani (1835), premiered shortly before the composer’s untimely death by accidental poisoning. It is one of the highpoints in the romantic…
Review | A Very Canadian Dialogues des carmélites in Valencia
Based on Die Letzte am Schafott (“The Song at the Scaffold”), a novella about the execution by guillotine of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne in…
Sinfonia Toronto Announces 2025-2026 Season
Toronto, ON (January 27, 2025) – Sinfonia Toronto has unveiled its 27th season. Under the baton of Music Director Nurhan Arman the orchestra will present…
Mécénat Musica: Meagan Milatz & Kristin Hoff Win Prix Goyer
Montreal, February 11, 2025 – For the first time since its inception in 2015, the Mécénat Musica: Prix Goyer for Collaborative Emerging Artist is awarded…
