Ensemble Classico-Moderne delivered on its promise of combining classic favorites and contemporary music during the first stop on its Toronto-Montréal-Quebec City tour.
Soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais took home First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at Canadian Opera Company’s 10th Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition.
Opéra de Montréal will be hosting the 7th edition of its Gala Talent on Thursday, November 9 at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier.
This week, Opera America announced discounts at around 80 opera houses across North America, and a new study found a gendered disparity in US opera production roles.
The OSM is partnering with the CMADQ for a special educational program and concerts with the help of OSM Music Director Rafael Payare.
The OCM continues its 84th season by offering a taste of Argentina with the tango opera María de Buenos Aires, by the renowned composer Astor Piazzolla.
Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are making their Canadian debut in Ottawa on October 28 with Bach’s Mass in B Minor.
Canadian ensembles like Toronto Symphony Orchestra are feeling a wave of generosity this week after an influx of legacy donations, and Decca Records signs Yunchan Lim.
Montreal, October 17, 2023 – Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents the Ligeti Festival on Saturday, November 4 and Sunday, November 5, 2023, to mark the 100th anniversary of the celebrated Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s birth. The guest of honour will be the outstanding French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Four events are planned for the Festival. On Saturday, November 4 at 2:30 p.m., musicologist Benjamin Levy, a professor at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and specialist on Ligeti, will present a lecture (in English and French) discussing the complex cultural phenomena that influenced the life…
On Sunday afternoon, October 15, 2023, a packed Maison Symphonique welcomed Mathias Maute’s Ensemble Caprice in “Vivaldi’s Gloria”: a concert celebrating the reputable baroque ensemble’s 35 years. The ensemble collaborated with the Ensemble ArtChoral and members of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (JBO), Israel’s first baroque orchestra. Maute shared the podium with Maestro David Shermer, conductor and founder of the JBO, who played continuo on harpsichord and pump organ. Maestro Maute presented and welcomed his guests, and thanked the members of the JBO, performing despite distressing international circumstances. The concert opened with the performance of a text by poet, author, songwriter,…
