Review | Maria is a Complex Cinematic Traversal of Callas’s Last Days
For fans of the legendary opera diva Maria Callas, it feels like rumours of a major film based on her life have been swirling for…
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 | Czech Philharmonic Triumphs with Celebratory Program at Toronto’s Koerner Hall
The Czech Philharmonic’s guest appearance at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Dec. 7 is part of a year-long series of concerts they are presenting the world-over…
Review | Barbara Hannigan Pulls Out All the Stops at Toronto’s Koerner Hall
Canadian soprano and 20/21st-century specialist extraordinaire, Barbara Hannigan, appeared at Toronto’s Koerner Hall on Nov. 28 with French pianist Bertrand Chamayou in a program they…
Review | An Over Full Cunning Little Vixen at Janáček Brno Festival
The 2024 Janáček Brno Festival closed on Nov. 24 with a revival of National Theatre Brno’s 2018 production of Janáček’s 1924 opera, The Cunning Little…
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…
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…
