Review | Donizetti in Bergamo: Where Rarities Steal the Spotlight
Since 1981, the city of Bergamo, one hour northeast of Milan, and the birthplace of Gaetano Donizetti, has hosted Donizetti Opera, a festival of the…
Yearly Archives: 2025
La Scena’s 2025 End-of-Year Donation Campaign
As 2026 approaches, I would like to update you on the latest developments at La Scena Musicale magazine and share our plans for celebrating our…
Newswire | Canada Council for the Arts to Expand artsvest Program
Toronto, ON, December 9, 2025 — artsvest will expand and strengthen its knowledge-sharing and leadership development program and network, continuing to empower small and mid-sized arts and culture…
Review | Jonas Kaufmann Still Brings Down the House in Paris Tosca
Puccini’s Tosca is an opera built on irresistible contradictions: a thriller wrapped in velvet, a story of political terror carried on some of the most seductive melodic…
Newswire | Li Delun Music Foundation Announces 2026 “East-Meets-West New Year’s Concert”
Celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the Li Delun Music Foundation’s unforgettable musical celebration—an artistic, cultural, and emotional journey that has become a…
Review | National Ballet of Canada’s Nutcracker at 30
National Ballet of Canada’s production of The Nutcracker celebrates its 30th anniversary this season. Set in late-Imperial Russia, it was created by choreographer and former…
Lebrecht Weekly | Josef Bohuslav Foerster: 2nd symphony; Cyrano de Bergerac (Naxos)
One of the most vivid portraits of Gustav Mahler was written by a fellow-Czech who, like Mahler, was a wage-slave in 1890s Hamburg. Mahler was…
Montreal Sees the Dawn of a New Orchestra with a Big Heart
Arriving in Canada in 2019 with a graduate degree in orchestral conducting, Evgenii Sakmarov is making his mark among Montreal’s young conductors. After completing a…
Newswire | Kathleen Allan of Amadeus Choir Awarded 2025 Leslie Bell Prize
Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, 2 December – Our Artistic Director, Kathleen Allan, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Leslie Bell Prize for…
Newswire | Opera 5 Announces Program for Second Toronto Opera Festival
TORONTO, ON- Today Opera 5 announces their 2026 season, featuring the return of the Toronto Opera Festival after a highly successful inaugural festival last June this time…
