Review | Rusalka on the verge at Janáček Brno Festival
Years that end in a four have a special significance in the Czech Republic as a cause to celebrate their national musical heritage with a…
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 | A Divisive Jenůfa at Janáček Brno Festival
Janáček Brno Festival presented a new staging of Janáček’s Jenůfa on Nov. 20 in a co-production with the Moravian Theatre Olomouc where it had its…
Review | Berlin Staatsoper’s fragmented The Makropulos Case at Janáček Brno Festival
Leoš Janáček’s penultimate opera, The Makropulos Case returned to Brno, where it premiered in 1926, in Claus Guth’s 2022 production from Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den…
Review | Fabulous 50s Falstaff at Hungarian State Opera
Verdi’s final opera, his comic masterpiece Falstaff, was revived by Hungarian State Opera on Nov. 16. in Swiss director Arnaud Bernard’s 2013 staging set in…
Review | Intriguingly ambiguous new Turandot at Hungarian State Opera
Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, was famously left incomplete due to the composer’s untimely death. It premiered at Teatro alla Scala in 1926 using composer Franco…
CD Review | Rachel Fenlon, Winterreise
Schubert: Winterreise Rachel Fenlon, soprano & piano Orchid Classics, 2024 Franz Schubert’s devastatingly confessional song cycle, Winterreise (1828) charts the journey of a spurned narrator…
Industry News November 2024: Royce Vavrek, Teresa Stratas, KW Symphony
Appointment News Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) has announced the news that Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian librettist, Royce Vavrek has been named their second-only artistic director,…
CD Review | freezing — Emily D’Angelo
freezing Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano; Sophia Muñoz, piano; Bruno Helstroffer, electric guitar; Jonas Niederstadt, synthesizer & bass guitar Deutsche Grammophon, 2024 The album freezing is Canadian…
Canada’s Newest Company Directors: Challenges, the Future & Significant Changes, Part 2
In Part 2 of our series, we meet three more of Canada’s newest arts leaders to get their take on the current state of the…
Industry News: October 2024: Winners, New Opera Stars
Industry News for September 2024
