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Sophie Junker (Poppea) and Nicolò Balducci (Nerone) in Cappella Mediterranea's The Coronation of Poppea. Photo: Lucky Tang

Review | Bold Poppea tests audience at Toronto Summer Music opener

By John Gilks on 11 July 2025 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Concert Reviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, which premiered in Venice in 1643, is truly revolutionary. Opera was new. It had only just evolved from being a court entertainment for the North Italian elite to being something that anyone with enough cash to buy a ticket could see in the new public theatres of Venice. And, of course, those theatres competed for “bums on seats.” This would lead to Monteverdi abandoning the convention that opera was about gods and heroes where wickedness was punished and virtue rewarded. Instead, he created a work in which a totally amoral, but dead sexy, couple triumph over…

Early Music Vancouver celebrates 55th anniversary of its beloved summer festival

By Newswire on 26 June 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Newswire, Vancouver, West

Vancouver, BC – Early Music Vancouver (EMV) invites audiences to an exploration of the interconnectedness of music, nature, and the elevation of the soul, in its 2025 summer festival, BACH & MOZART: In Endless Ascent, from July 26 to August 8, 2025, at various Vancouver venues. “Just as trees reach for the sky, we, as part of nature’s ecosystem, reach towards the highest expression of ourselves, and music—the language of the heart and the emotions—helps us up on our journey,” says EMV’s Artistic and Executive Director Suzie LeBlanc. “This year’s festival brings together music from East and West, past and present in celebration of…

La Scena Musicale’s Festival Picks

By La Scena Musicale Team on 4 June 2025 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Classical Music, Folk, Musique populaire, Vocal

British Columbia and Alberta by Madeline Boldt EARLY MUSIC VANCOUVER This year marks the 55th anniversary of Early Music Vancouver’s Summer Festival. From July 26-Aug. 8, early-music lovers in Vancouver can expect a wide array of performances, from Mozart’s Requiem to Schubert’s Lieder, as well as a Chinese-Baroque Musical Dialogue featuring Vancouver’s Sound of Dragon Ensemble. Titled In Endless Ascent, the 2025 festival focuses on the theme of spiritual transformation and musical elevation, blending the old and the new. www.earlymusic.bc.ca Banff International String Quartet Competition From Aug. 25-31, some of the world’s finest emerging string quartets will take the stage…

Ottawa Chamberfest: Violinist Shunske Sato on historical practice

By Madeline Boldt on 30 May 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical, Classical Music, Ottawa, Piano, Violin

When Shunske Sato takes the stage, the audience steps into a whole new era. Far beyond playing music from the past, Sato is determined to immerse himself in the era. Through a blend of research and music, he has fostered a unique approach to early music—one that is equally rooted in fact and feeling. Beyond his career in performance, Sato also doubles as a scholar and educator. His practice is historically-informed, based on his involvement in extensive research on 18th- and 19th-century performance practices. A violinist and conductor, Sato attempts to bring to life the textures and intricacies of the…

Isabel Bader Centre Announces its 11th Anniversary Season

By Newswire on 24 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Music, Music Competition, Orchestral

Kingston, ON … The Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (“the Isabel”) at Queen’s University announces its 11th season, which includes 28 events and performances featuring local and internationally renowned artists, as well as the 2026 Bader-Overton National Piano Competition. “We are pleased to present the Isabel’s upcoming 2025-2026 season which promises to be an exciting complement to our wonderfully successful tenth anniversary,” says Isabel Director Gordon E Smith. “The 2025-2026 season is curated around the theme of ‘Extending the Rafters,’ invoking the Haudenosaunee tradition of building good relations. ‘Extending the Rafters’ served as a metaphor in Queen’s Truth and Reconciliation Report…

Hubert Hazebroucq and Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

Review | Hubert Hazebroucq Leads Choreographed Splendor with EMV and Ensemble Doulce Mémoire

By Madeline Boldt on 17 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Concert Reviews, Dance, Vancouver, West

Doulce Mémoire is an old French phrase that can be translated as “sweet memory,” a poetic connection to the past. This is what Ensemble Doulce Mémoire and Renaissance and baroque dance specialist Hubert Hazebroucq brought to the Vancouver Playhouse for Early Music Vancouver’s presentation of Now Let Us Dance on April 12th. A tribute to song and dance of the 15th and 16th centuries, the performance was unlike anything I had ever seen or heard before. The narrative aspect of the show kept the audience holding onto every detail with the show divided into four separate story segments. The first was…

Artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Review | Opera Atelier Showcases French Baroque Spectacle in David and Jonathan

By Gianmarco Segato on 11 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Dance, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Opera Atelier celebrates its 40th anniversary season with a work that surely must be considered at the core of its four-decade mission. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David and Jonathan (1688) exemplifies the 17th-century French tragédie en musique, an opera based on a tragic subject from mythology, or in this case, the bible. Told in five acts plus prologue, David and Jonathan includes divertissements for a ballet troupe interspersed with all manner of singing, not only for a large number of named soloists, but also, an eight-member onstage ensemble, as well as a full off-stage chorus. In other words, the type of spectacle…

Festival Les Printemps Slaves: An (Almost) Baroque Slavic Spring

By Heather Weinreb on 2 April 2025 Baroque and Early

The 12th edition of Les Printemps Slaves, Montreal’s only Slavic music festival, takes place May 6-30. Every year, Artistic Director Irina Krasnyanskaya comes up with a different theme for the festival. “This year, we picked something absolutely unexpected and unusual: baroque Slavic music… The festival will be called Un printemps slave presque baroque!” When people think of music from Slavic countries, what usually comes to mind are composers from the Romantic era and the 20th century, such as Chopin, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky. For Krasnyanskaya, the baroque theme of this year’s festival will allow audiences to hear lesser-known Slavic composers, many…

Sarah Dufresne. Photo: The Musician’s Photographer

Les Violons du Roy: Striking the balance between tradition and modernity

By Justin Bernard on 31 March 2025 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Contemporary, Quebec City

On March 20, Les Violons du Roy unveiled their 42nd season. Between October 2025 and May 2026, they will present concerts in both Quebec City and Montreal, as is their tradition. The season includes great choral works, more intimate pieces, thematic events as well as more contemporary repertoire. In Montreal, the chamber orchestra will perform three times at Maison symphonique and seven times at Bourgie Hall. At Palais Montcalm in Quebec City, 11 evening concerts, six afternoon concerts and, in its smaller hall, four aperitif concerts are scheduled. “There’s a certain craze for afternoon concerts on Thursdays. More and more…

Clavecin en concert Performs Four Classical Trios

By Newswire on 10 February 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Strings

Montreal, February 5th, 2025 – Clavecin en concert is pleased to announce the first classical trios concert of 2025, featuring works by Johann Christian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alongside the symphony, string quartet and keyboard sonata, the trio for violin, cello and keyboard remains one of the major genres of classicism. Derived not so much from the Baroque trio sonata, but rather from the “harpsichord pieces that can be played with the accompaniment of a violin and a viola da gamba” in which the French masters gave pride of place to the keyboard, the classical trio…

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