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Amadeus Choir practicing for Sir Andrew Davis Koerner Hall concert (Photo by Dahlia Katz)

La Scena Musicale Announces the Launch of the 2024 Choir Guide: Celebrating Choral Music

By La Scena Musicale Team on 17 April 2024 Arts Industry, Choral, Guides, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, Vocal

Montreal, Quebec – April 17, 2024. La Scena Musicale, the renowned music magazine committed to serving the Canadian music community, is pleased to announce the launch of its 2024 Choir Guide. This year marks the 14th edition of this highly anticipated annual event, shining a spotlight on vocal art across Canada. La Scena Musicale’s Choir Guide is an invaluable resource for choirs seeking talented members. It’s also a valuable tool for singers looking for a choir for musical and social enjoyment. By offering exceptional visibility in our June national edition, the Guide is strategically released on May 31st, providing choirs…

Douglas Williams (Golaud) & Meghan Lindsay (Mélisande) in Opera Atelier's All is Love. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Concert Review | Beautiful parts fail to add up to a dramatic whole in Opera Atelier All is Love

By Gianmarco Segato on 12 April 2024 Baroque and Early, City, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

All is Love, the new Opera Atelier production is a heterogeneous mix of numbers that impress individually but fail to add up to a dramatically satisfying whole.

Joyce El-Khoury & Serouj Kradjian

Joyce El-Khoury & Serouj Kradjian: What They’re Made Of

By Eva Stone-Barney on 29 March 2024 Classical Music, Toronto

El-Khoury and Kradjian have created a program that combines bel canto favourites with a collection of the Lebanese songs she grew up listening to. This repertoire will be completely new to Toronto audiences, and will include the North American première of Les cèdres by Iyad Kanaan.

Verdi Goes to Church: A Requiem with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir

By Bridget Esler on 29 March 2024 Choral, Toronto

At the time of its première in 1874, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem was described by sharp-tongued conductor Hans von Bülow as “an opera in ecclesiastical robes.”

Dr. Peter Simon

Building the Future: The Legacy of Dr. Peter Simon

By Eva Stone-Barney on 29 March 2024 Arts Industry, Education, Toronto

In August this year, Dr. Peter Simon will step down from his role as President and CEO of the RCM. The vastness of his accomplishments is quite unbelievable. What drives him? Simon says it comes down to his love of music.

Newswire | TMChoir and Sébastien Vallée Welcome Six Rising Conductors

By Newswire on 25 March 2024 Choral, Newswire, Toronto

Six up-and-coming conductors will take the podium under the leadership of Jean-Sébastien Vallée for a series of workshops and masterclasses for the TMChoir’s 15th Symposium.

Highlights | Canadian Albums and Festivals Blossom with the Spring

By Zenith Wolfe on 22 March 2024 Classical, Contemporary, Highlights, Montreal, Toronto

We’re setting our eyes (and ears) on albums and festivals that will blossom this spring.

Chihiro Yasufuku (Dorothée), Jordana Goddard (Noémie), Kcenia Koutorjevski (Madame de la Haltière) and Ellita Gagner (Lucette) in UofT Opera's Cendrillon. Photo: Richard Lu

Review | UofT Opera delivers a sumptuous Busby Berkeley Cendrillon at Toronto’s Elgin Theatre

By Gianmarco Segato on 15 March 2024 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

UofT Opera opened a sparkling new production of Massenet’s Cendrillon on March 15 at Toronto’s historic, neo-Baroque Elgin Theatre, the perfect setting for director Maria Lamont’s 1930s Busby Berkeley-inspired conception. Massenet’s 1899 version of the familiar Cinderella fairy tale, while not without its Belle Epoque froth, is also lined with a deeply moving vein of melancholy that was successfully brought to the fore by a promising band of student artists. The Elgin’s acoustic is notoriously dry, and so it was perhaps fortuitous that conductor Sandra Horst elected to reduce the size of Massenet’s original orchestration, especially given the lack of…

Concert Review | Igor Levit Gives Stunning Toronto Recital

By Joseph So on 12 March 2024 Classical Music, Montreal, Toronto

There are many great pianists in this world, but there’s only one Igor Levit. Typical hyperbole in music journalism, you say? Levit’s recent Koerner Hall would suggest otherwise.

Isata Kanneh Mason, Ryan Bancroft, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Breaking the Mould: Isata Kanneh-Mason takes on Prokofiev with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra

By Viktor Lazarov on 8 March 2024 Classical Music, Orchestral, Piano, Toronto

British rising star, classical pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason will make her debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) on March 22, 23, and 24 at Roy Thompson Hall.

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