CD Review | Alfredo Santa Ana Before the World Sleeps
Before the World Sleeps Alfredo Santa Ana, composer; Miranda Wong, piano Redshift Records, 2024 Before the World Sleeps is a direct result of the current…
Yearly Archives: 2025
Festival Classica 2025: From Keith Jarret to Abbey Road
Marc Boucher, founder and artistic director of Festival Classica, is a man with wide open ears. “An artistic director,” he says, “should listen to a…
CMIM 2025: Our Predictions
Each year, La Scena Musicale assembles an informal jury that listens, grades and evaluates the 24 participants of the Concours musical international de Montreal (CMIM).…
Indie Opera: The Current State of Canadian Startup Opera
When considering the current state of indie opera in Canada, an initial observation might be that the scene has shrunk in recent years, particularly in…
The 2025 Juno Awards: Classical and Jazz Categories
The 2025 Juno Awards, hosted on March 29th 2025, featured a number of prestigious awards in both classical music and jazz. Below are the recipients…
Toronto Summer Music Announces William Fedkenheuer as Next Artistic Director
Violinist William Fedkenheuer to become TSM’s next Artistic Director TORONTO (March 28, 2025) – Toronto Summer Music announces today the appointment of new Artistic Director: Canadian…
Lebrecht Weekly | Alice Sara Ott’s Post-Chopin Approach on John Field’s Complete Nocturnes
The most influential Irishman in the history of music is not Bob Geldof, Bono, Sinead O’Connor or the Dubliners, all of whom are famous as…
Review | Orchestre Métropolitain Delivers Three Cs of Success with Schubert’s ‘The Great’
In these troubling moments, music brings us what the news doesn’t. There is nothing ‘fake’ here”. Thus, a characteristically engaging Yannick Nézet-Séguin announced what he…
Death of Tenor Alain Nonat
La Scena is sad to learn of the passing of tenor Alain Nonat on Dec. 31, 2024 at the age of 82. Alain was a…
Opera 5 Named Canadian Opera Company’s Newest Company-In-Residence
Toronto – Opera 5 is pleased to announce that we will be the next Company-in-Residence at the Canadian Opera Company. The two-year artistic residency will…
