Elora festival: Online and ready to roll
The Elora Festival this year unfolds mostly in places other than the picturesque town in southern Ontario that gives the annual summer choral celebration its…
Arthur Kaptainis
Arthur Kaptainis
Arthur Kaptainis has been a classical music critic since 1986. His articles have appeared in Classical Voice North America and La Scena Musicale as well as Musical Toronto. Arthur holds an MA in musicology from the University of Toronto. From 2019-2021, Arthur was co-editor of La Scena Musicale.
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Brott Music Festival shifts into summer gear
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Or actually, leave them off and start your radios, to hear Così fan tutte, the opera that opens the…
Bergen: A recital from Grieg’s living room to yours
The Bergen International Festival takes its “international” modifier seriously. There are offerings in various genres and many that could be classified as experimental. The American…
Bergen International Festival: Grieg from the heartland
Before and after. Who now does not think in these terms? Many music lovers, for obvious reasons, feel nostalgia for the former and disdain for…
Richard Margison: Canadian Vocal Art Institute
There is nothing like working in a room with singers in person,” Richard Margison, the new artistic director of the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, said…
National Youth Orchestra of Canada: Mindful of the future
For the second summer in a row, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada will do without certain elements that might seem indispensable for an orchestral…
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CMIM Prize Winners: Top Honours to Su Yeon Kim Su Yeon Kim is the winner of the all-online 19th edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal,…
Janina Fialkowska – Looking Forward at 70
It’s a time to try to keep looking forward,” Janina Fialkowska said from her home outside Augsburg, a German city some 80 kilometres west of…
OCM goes Slavic, with a mellow cello
“The Great Slavs” was the title of the penultimate concert of the Orchestre classique de Montréal season, given Tuesday before a reduced live audience and…
Janina Fialkowska, at 70, is looking forward
“It’s a time to try to keep looking forward,” Janina Fialkowska said from her home outside Augsburg, a German city some 80 kilometres west of…
