Festival Picks
MONTREAL/QUEBEC Centre Culturel de Pointe-Claire In an effort to make cultural programming accessible to its residents, and breathe life into public park spaces, the Centre…
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The New Brunswick Summer Music Festival: 30 Years in Fredricton
This year marks 30 years of the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. Founded in 1994 by Richard Hornsby, clarinetist and Director of Music at the…
Lanaudière Festival 2023
Canadian classical music will make a home for itself in Joliette, Que., from July 7 to Aug. 6. The festival will include 14 concerts at…
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Obituaries Grace Bumbry (1937-2023) Trailblazing American mezzo-soprano, considered to be one of the leading voices of her generation, dies at 86. She was the first…
Highlands Opera Studio: Finding New Ears in Haliburton, Ont.
For the last 17 summers, Canada’s promising opera singers have flocked to Haliburton, Ont., to participate in the Highlands Opera Studio (HOS) which, this year,…
Concert Previews
MontrealVoces Boreales This June, Voces Boreales invites listeners into an immersive installation at St. James United Church. Open from noon to 7 p.m., audience members…
Upcoming Concerts
MONTREAL OSM There’s something for everyone this spring at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conducted by Rafael Payare, the orchestra will be joined by soprano…
Haydn’s Orfeo
This May, a contraband opera will take centre stage in Toronto for its North American première. Composed in 1791, the original production of Joseph Haydn’s…
Esprit Orchestra’s New Wave Festival
Esprit Orchestra is looking ahead to a busy second half of their 40th anniversary season. First up is the return of their New Wave Festival.…
Marc-André Hamelin: Dukas and Beethoven Pairing
Marc-André Hamelin’s return to Montreal on March 12 will be a homecoming in more ways than one; not only will he perform for a hometown…
