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A scene from the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Nabucco, 2024. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | Nabucco makes a triumphant, belated COC debut

By Denise Lai on 8 October 2024 Concert Reviews, Toronto

The Canadian Opera Company opens its 2024-25 season with Nabucco. It is hard to believe that the opera that launched Giuseppe Verdi’s career has never been staged by the COC in its 74-year history. A Lyric Opera of Chicago production, Nabucco is finally making a long-overdue premiere in Toronto. Nabucco, the tyrannical king of Babylon, is about to invade Judah. Although the Israelites have taken Nabucco’s daughter Fenena hostage, they lose their bargaining chip when she is freed by her captor Ismaele, who is in love with her. The enraged Nabucco goes on a rampage, destroys the Israelites’ temple and…

Renaud Capuçon. Photo: Simon Fowler

Review | Renaud Capuçon plays splendid Mozart with Gimeno & the TSO

By Paul E. Robinson on 7 October 2024 City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Toronto

French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been a favourite of mine for some years now – especially in the music of Mozart – but this was the first time I had seen and heard him in a live concert. I was not disappointed and neither was the capacity audience at George Weston Recital Hall in North York. With Gustavo Gimeno leading the TSO Capuçon gave us good old-fashioned Mozart with impeccable technique and beautiful tone. Capuçon first played with the TSO way back in 2008 but that was fairly early in his career. He has since gone on to build an…

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VENUE GUIDE

By LSM Calendar on 7 October 2024 Guides, Montreal

Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours / Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel 400, rue St-Paul E. Montréal, QC 514-282-8670 | www.marguerite-bourgeoys.com Superficie: 51 m / 551 p , 75 m / 807 p Capacité: 356 spectateurs / 60 spectateurs Vestiaires: 1 Équipement audio: système de son, haut-parleurs Équipement vidéo: oui Aire de réception: oui Restauration/bar: non Service de billetterie: oui Service de placeurs compris: non (négociable) Accès fauteuils roulants: oui Stationnement: 3 Bus/métro: oui Catégorie: musique classique Coût: 750 $+ La Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours est située au cœur du magnifique quartier du Vieux-Montréal. Sa voûte de bois qui lui confère une acoustique exceptionnelle. La crypte avec sa voûte…

Photo: Tam Photography

Review | Rhapsody in Blue‘s 100th: Romance and American Jazz with Jean-Philippe Sylvestre

By Amanda Wong on 4 October 2024 Concert Reviews, Jazz, Montreal

George Gershwin was born on September 26, 1898; it was only fitting that his most beloved piece Rhapsody in Blue, written 100 years ago, would be celebrated in Montreal on what would have been his 126th birthday. In a night of romance and American jazz, Montérégie’s very own Jean-Philippe Sylvestre filled Maison Symphonique on Sept. 26h for a solo piano concert that also included Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” from West Side Story. Sylvestre has won many awards worldwide, the First Prize and Audience Prize from the OSM Competition, the esteemed Virginia Parker Prize, and the John…

Photo: The Power of Harriet T, BTW in association with Carousel Players

Encouraging Theatrical Dialogue Between the Various Cultures in Montreal

By Newswire on 2 October 2024 Montreal, Newswire, Theatre

MONTREAL, September 2024 – Continuing the promotion of diversity at the core of the Cole Foundation’s Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles (IC-CI) program, new Foundation President Nancy Wells, along with longtime Chair and Past-President Barry Cole, is proud to announce the latest round of grant winners. A resounding success with ever-increasing applicants, Intercultural Conversations-Conversations interculturelles was created to motivate the production of professional theatre that features intercultural dialogue and introduces Montrealers to other cultural heritages. For this recent spring competition, thirteen companies were given vital grants to share diverse and inclusive theatrical stories in Greater Montreal for a total of $209,000 for…

Toronto Consort: Ensemble Members & Scholars. Photo: Aleksandar Antonijevic

Toronto Consort Appoints Dame Emma Kirkby as First-Ever Honorary Patron and Daniel Taylor O.C. as new Artistic and General Director

By Newswire on 25 September 2024 Baroque and Early, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, ON, September 25, 2024 – Heather Turnbull, President of the Board, The Toronto Consort, today announced the appointment of Daniel Taylor, O.C. as the company’s new General and Artistic Director, Dame Emma Kirkby as the Consort’s first-ever Honorary Patron, and the launch of the Consort’s 2024-2025 Season: BLESSED LIGHT – BLESSED ECHO. The Consort’s five-concert season kicks off on October 11. Visit TorontoConsort.org for more details. “This is an extraordinary moment in the history of The Toronto Consort,” said Turnbull. “Daniel Taylor is a beloved Canadian singer, a leading figure in the field of opera and early music, and noted…

Concours Musical International de Montréal, Voice Edition, Announces Prestigious Jury

By Newswire on 17 September 2024 Montreal, Music Competition, Newswire, Vocal

The jury of the Voice 2025 edition of the CMIM will be composed of eminent members, including performers and influential figures from the world of opera and classical music, who will gather in Montreal for the next edition of the Competition. Chaired by world-renowned Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, this jury will have the challenging task of evaluating the competitors’ performances, rewarding both technical excellence and artistic interpretation. “The members of the jury for our Voice 2025 edition all have exceptional backgrounds. Their expertise and influence on the international music scene will make them first choice references for our competitors at the start of their…

(L-R) Sara Schabas, Lucie St-Martin, Corey Arnold, Matthew Li

Review | Cultural Unity in the Chinese Gardens: A Lyrical Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

By Amanda Wong on 16 September 2024 City, Classical Music, Montreal, Opera, Vocal

In the lunar calendar, the 15th day of the 8th month marks the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, a celebration of the harvest moon at its fullest and brightest. This significant day is a time of gratitude in many East and Southeast Asian countries for community and the season’s bountiful harvest. This occasion also symbolizes gathering, commemoration, and harmony among people — themes prominently emphasized in Rencontre Lyrique Chine-Canada (Chinese-Canadian Lyrical Gathering), a concert held in Montreal’s beautiful Botanical Gardens on Sept. 14th. Seven young Canadian and/or Chinese opera singers were featured, showcasing the power of music to unite cultures. These performers…

Salle Bourgie’s 2024-25 season is fast approaching

By Newswire on 4 September 2024 Montreal, Newswire

Montreal, Wednesday, September 4, 2024 – Bourgie Hall of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) kicks off its 2024-2025 season on Wednesday, September 25, at 7:30 p.m. This concert also inaugurates Schubert’s complete lieder project: the Orchestre de l’Agora with mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and narrator Émile Proulx-Cloutier, led by conductor Nicolas Ellis, will transport listeners into Schubert’s imaginary world, with orchestrations by Berlioz, Webern, Reger and Canadian composer Ian Cusson, a member of the Georgian Bay Métis community, as well as excerpts from his symphonies. The 2024-2025 season brings us spectacular musical encounters. Developed by Artistic Director Olivier Godin and…