Review | City Opera Vancouver’s Immersive Sophia’s Forest
On May 29, opera goers wandered from the spring evening streets of Vancouver’s Gastown into the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Ushered toward the…
Yearly Archives: 2025
Review | A rare tenor Idamante in Hungarian State Opera’s striking Idomeneo
Hungarian State Opera is presenting the first revival of its 2023 production of Mozart’s Idomeneo in András Almási-Tóth’s pandemic-inspired conception. Having seen the premiere two…
Review | MOVETHECOMPANY’s Gala is All About the Dancers
It was great to see a well-filled Vancouver Playhouse on the May 29th opening night of MOVETHECOMPANY’s 20th Anniversary Gala, with another crowd booked in…
Review | Prime donne Shine in Unfocused Maria Stuarda at Hungarian State Opera
Hungarian State Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda marks the opera’s first staging in this country (seen May 31). As conductor Martin Rajna mentions…
Review | Stewart Goodyear’s Exuberant Caribbean Callaloo with TSO
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra continues to thrive, playing to a packed Roy Thomson Hall on May 28, each part of the program receiving multiple standing…
Report | Cliburn Semi-Final Round: The Last Six Recitals
Disclaimer: This article was written without knowing the jury’s selection of the six finalists. The lists of best recitals and finalists correspond only to the…
Finalists Announced for 2025 Cliburn Competition
FORT WORTH, Texas, June 1, 2025—The jury of the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (May 21–June 7, 2025) has announced the six pianists advancing to the…
Edmonton Opera: Fiscally-responsible innovation
Now that opera companies across Canada have announced their 2025-26 seasons, a clear pattern emerges. Programming is mostly centred around Top 10 titles like Barber…
Report | Cliburn Semi-Final Round: The Mozart Concertos
The second phase of these Cliburn semifinals consisted of all twelve contestants performing a Mozart concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos…
Report | CMIM Art Song Final: Laureano Quant, Pure Talent
When Laureano Quant’s victory was announced last night, Saturday, May 31, at around 10:15 p.m., a great cheer echoed through Bourgie Hall, packed for this…
