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Sharon Azrieli: Final Act

By Charles Geyer on 31 August 2024 Montreal, Opera, Vocal

Update (Sept. 19, 2024): Sharon Azrieli is sad to announce that she will not be performing with the Opera de Montreal in Barber of Seville due to circumstances out of her control. “I’ve waited my entire career to sing with Opéra de Montréal,” says soprano Sharon Azrieli. The wait is over! The Montreal-born-and-raised Azrieli will be performing the piquant role of the maid Berta in Opéra de Montréal’s new production of Rossini’s The Barber of Séville (Sept. 28 through Oct. 6). It’s a moving capstone to a remarkably varied operatic, concert and recording career. French Connection “My favourite opera…

World music: Fall Season in Montreal

By Hassan Laghcha on 30 August 2024 Montreal, World Music

Place des Arts This fall, Place des Arts’s programming includes a Dance of Sands concert presented by Lebanese artist Aleph and his orchestra on Oct. 21 at Théâtre Maisonneuve. On the menu: a refined blend of jazz, flamenco and oriental music. On Nov. 22, Greek singer Nikos Vertis presents a selection of hits and songs from his latest album at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Next year kicks off with a Chinese New Year’s gala on Jan. 12 at Théâtre Maisonneuve, with Feng Hua Xue Yue 2025, directed by Singaporean lyric coloratura soprano Han Yong, accompanied by China-ASEAN host Chen Mingzhen. The celebrations…

Darius Jones (Photo: Kholood Eid)

Jazz in Ontario: Guelph, Toronto & Beyond

By Félix-Antoine Hamel on 30 August 2024 City, La Scena Online, Scena Jazz, Toronto

GUELPH AT THE CROSSROADS This year, the Guelph Jazz Festival organization is in transition, after its former director, Scott Thomson, was appointed artistic and general director of FIMAV (the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville) last year. The Guelph festival’s Interim Artistic Director Karen Ng and Interim General Manager Alex Ricci and their team have nevertheless assembled a promising lineup featuring a range of creative groups from Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. They’ve retained a strong focus on improvised music, in keeping with the Guelph Jazz Festival’s distinctive flavour, while also adding some world and electronic musics in the…

Wadada Leo Smith (Photo: Michael Jackson)

Montreal (In)Flux

By Félix-Antoine Hamel on 30 August 2024 City, La Scena Online, Montreal, Scena Jazz

“It almost happened by accident,” says Peter Burton (from Arts in the Margins) about the many organisations pulling their forces together for the upcoming Flux Festival, which will have its first edition from Oct. 4 to 10. In an era where money is rare for the creative arts, necessity is the mother of collaboration and no less than seven different organizations are involved in putting together concerts and conferences about experimental and improvised music during that week, including the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation as well as Innovations en concert. But while concert-goers will find much to enjoy…

Photo: Alarie Photo

Antoine Bareil and the OSL Explore the Mendelssohns

By Arnaud G. Veydarier on 30 August 2024 City, Montreal, Orchestral

Since its founding in 1984, Orchestre symphonique de Laval (OSL) has brilliantly established itself in the musical landscape of Greater Montreal. On the eve of its 40th anniversary, the orchestra will open its new season with Encounter: Antoine Bareil plays Mendelssohn, an evening under the direction of conductor Adam Johnson featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor (1844), Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) by Modest Mussorgsky, and the Overture in C major (1832) by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. A grandiose program combining the enchanting expressiveness of German Romanticism with the raw lyricism of the Russian tradition. A family story Felix…

The Orchestre classique de Montréal announces its 85th season

By Newswire on 14 August 2024 La Scena Online, Montreal, Newswire

The Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM), recent winner of the JUNO Award for Classical Album of the Year, is excited to unveil its 2024/25 season: 85 Years of Emotions.

General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

Metropolitan Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin signs contract extension through 2029–30 season

By Newswire on 6 August 2024 La Scena Online, Montreal, Newswire

The Metropolitan Opera today announced the contract extension of its Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, through the 2029–30 season.

Fall at the MBAM: The Museum’s collection takes the spotlight this season

By Newswire on 6 August 2024 Daily News Roundup, La Scena Online, Montreal, Scena Arts, Visual Arts

While the major exhibition Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: Three Hundred Years of Flemish Masterworks continues its run until October 20 – and, already, it’s been seen by over 50,000 people – the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is preparing a host of offerings for this fall, including an opportunity to see more than 100 works that have recently entered the Museum’s collection.

14th Glenn Gould Prize Laureate Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, and Glenn Gould Protégé Prize winners Andrés David Ascanio Abreu (R) and Enluis Montes Olivar (L) pose with their awards following the presentation at Carnegie Hall on August 2, 2024. Photo Credit: Fadi Kheir

Glenn Gould Foundation Presents the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel

By Newswire on 6 August 2024 La Scena Online, Newswire, Toronto

The Glenn Gould Foundation proudly presented the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel during a special ceremony at Carnegie Hall on August 2, 2024.

Courtesy of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

La Scena on the Road | Musical Minimalism, Belgrade Style

By Viktor Lazarov on 2 August 2024 City, Classical Music, Contemporary, La Scena Online, Montreal

In May of this year, I found myself among leading musicologists and composers attending the Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism in my hometown of Belgrade, Serbia.

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