Elias String Quartet A Big Year for Beethoven
Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 1, Mendelssohn’s Op. 13, Beethoven’s Op. 131: The program is logical enough. After all, the Elias String Quartet takes its name from…
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Le Fantôme de l’Opéra Opening Night Team Review
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Titanic Live: Soundtrack comes to the fore
James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic became one of the most profitable movies of all time, grossing over $2 billion at the box office and winning…
Independant Opera Companies
by Andréanne Venne & Justin Bernard NOVA SCOTIA Maritime Concert Opera Founded in 2003 by Nina Scott-Stoddart, the Maritime Concert Opera Society aims to present…
CD Reviews
Shostakovich plays Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich, Iosif Volovnik, Daniil Shafran, David Oistrakh, Maxim Shostakovich, Miloš Sádlo, Nina Dorliak, Zara Dolukhanova, Aleksei Maslennikov, Mieczysław Weinberg, Alexander Gauk,…
Jessye Norman: Grace Befitting Royalty
by Susan Platts Jessye Norman: where can one possibly begin? Be it the soprano, mezzo or alto repertoire, the music of Strauss, Wagner, Berg, Berlioz or Cage, the…
Jessye Norman: Memories of a unique recording artist
by Martha de Francisco My first encounter with Jessye Norman was at the Musikverein Hall in Vienna in 1983, as we prepared to record Mahler’s…
Marcello Giordani, tenor, 1963-2019
Italian media Siricusa News (Syracuse News in Sicily, Italy) reports the death of Italian tenor Marcello Giordani suddenly this afternoon at 56 years old due…
Critiques de Concert Reviews
Opéra de Montréal Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin What you missed One of the best-cast and least-tampered-with Opéra de Montréal presentations in recent memory. Australian soprano Nicole…
Critiques CD Reviews
Skye Consort & Emma Björling Leaf Music, LM225 4/5 Sentez l’air frais du nord s’insinuer dans vos oreilles avec cette rencontre remarquable entre la chanteuse…
