Nadine Benjamin: From Trading Floor To Opera Stage
Soprano Nadine Benjamin could never have predicted a career as an opera singer. She was born in Brixton, an underprivileged London district where her single…
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The first time I heard Sondra Radvanovsky was in 2010 in Montreal’s Salle Wilfrid Pelletier. She was a guest artist alongside the headliner of the…
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After a 40-year career that has taken him to every major opera house in the world and placed him alongside the likes of Mirella Freni…
Justyna Gabzdyl: Building on the best of Poland in Montreal
Justyna Gabzdyl has come a long way. After graduating from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy (now University) of Music in Warsaw in 2005, this Polish pianist…
Marie-Josée Lord : A voice of her own
Marie-Josée Lord is a soprano on the move. We caught her by phone while she was in Toronto for an intensive two-week workshop with the…
JFK Opera: An American Opera
Continuing their new tradition of presenting one modern work per season, this year Montreal Opera decided to opt for JFK by composer David Little and librettist…
Frédéric Antoun on The Exterminating Angel
Canadian tenor Frédéric Antoun is one of the voices in most demand in the world of opera today. In the last five years, he has…
Gerald Finley 20 years later
It has already been 20 years since we first interviewed Canadian baritone Gerald Finley (see Philip Anson’s article). Then, Finley was a rising star specializing…
An Energetic Mozart’s Requiem
Mozart: Symphony no. 29 in A major Mozart: Requiem Mass in D Minor Société Philarmonique du Nouveau Monde Choeur philarmonique du nouveau monde Michel Brousseau,…
The ‘Atelier lyrique’ Talent 2017 : Opéra de Montréal Selects Stars of Tomorrow
Every year the Atelier Lyrique holds auditions to find the operatic talents of the future. This year they are betting on a slightly new formula:…
