Concert Review | A Homecoming for Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska’s March 24 Koerner Hall recital with pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin marked a triumphant homecoming for the young Macedonian-Canadian singer.
Gianmarco Segato
Gianmarco Segato
Arts writer, administrator and singer Gianmarco Segato is Assistant Editor for La Scena Musicale. He was Associate Artist Manager for opera at Dean Artists Management and from 2017-2022, Editorial Director of Opera Canada magazine. Previous to that he was Adult Programs Manager with the Canadian Opera Company. Gianmarco is an intrepid classical music traveler with a special love of Prague and Budapest as well as an avid cyclist and cook.
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Review | UofT Opera delivers a sumptuous Busby Berkeley Cendrillon at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre
UofT Opera opened a sparkling new production of Massenet’s Cendrillon on March 15 at Toronto’s historic, neo-Baroque Elgin Theatre, the perfect setting for director Maria…
Michael Cavanagh (1961-2024)
Renowned Canadian opera director Michael Cavanagh has passed away suddenly at the age of 62. Cavanagh was one of Canada’s most prolific and sought-after opera…
Concert Review | VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents Verdi’s Ernani
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents Verdi’s Ernani for Toronto Audiences
Review | A compelling, psychoanalytic Rusalka premieres at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest
It is now common parlance to note that even up until the early 1980s, Dvořák’s 1901 opera Rusalka was little-seen outside of its native Czech…
Report | Musikfest Berlin: Big, bold and bracing programming at Europe’s best kept festival secret
Musikfest Berlin is a late summer festival which you’re unlikely to see on the same culture vulture circuit that includes Salzburg, Bayreuth, Aix-en-Provence, and Munich.…
Matthew Cairns, Tenor, 2022 Met Opera Auditions
Tenor Matthew Cairns’s star has been rising for a few years now, but his promise was given the ultimate seal of approval when he became…
Dido and Aeneas : New Prologue Breathes Fresh Life into a Classic
When Ensemble Caprice brings Henry Purcell’s 1689 operatic gem Dido and Aeneas to Montreal’s Salle Bourgie on Nov. 8 under conductor, flutist and composer Matthias…
Review | New Bayreuth Festival Ring Cycle — A Stew of Undercooked Ideas
After a long, pandemic-induced delay, the Bayreuther Festspiele finally premiered its new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle on July 31, but not before a myriad…
Adrianne Pieczonka: The soprano and CMIM jurist is ‘very pro-competition’
The 2022 vocal edition of the Concours musical international de Montréal has assembled a distinguished international jury drawn from the crème de la crème of…
