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Pacific Opera Victoria’s 2015-2016 Season: From Great Theatre, Opera is Born

By Newswire on 3 August 2015 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Victoria’s 2015-16 opera season begins with Otello and closes with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and sandwiched between is the frothy cream of The Barber of Seville. With Verdi and Britten’s adaptations of Shakespeare and Rossini’s take on Beaumarchais, Pacific Opera Victoria celebrates theatre, reborn as dazzling opera. All productions take place at the Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton Street, Victoria, BC. OTELLO Verdi October 15 to 25, 2015Otello is an illustrious general with an adoring wife, until Iago sets out to destroy him and tear his marriage apart. With insinuation and lies, malevolence and false kindness, Iago plays on his general’s vulnerability. …

This Week in Montreal: August 3 to 9

By Michele Duguay on 3 August 2015 Chamber Music, Orchestral, Strings, This Week in Montreal

Marianne Fiset (Photo: Maxime Tremblay)This Week in Montreal: August 3 to 9Carmen at OSM’s Classical Spree A must-see event at the end of the summer, the 4th Classical Spree will begin on August 5 with a free outdoors concert conducted by Kent Nagano. This year, a shortened version of Bizet’s Carmen will be presented at the Olympic Park, featuring Michèle Losier, Joseph Kaiser and Marianne Fiset. As in previous years, 30 low-price 45-minute concerts and a variety of free activities will take place on August 7 and 8, to present the beauties of classical music to the public. In a…

This Week in Montreal: July 27 to August 2

By Michele Duguay on 27 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Marc Hervieux (Photo: Maryse Gagné)This Week in Montreal: July 27 to August 2Orchestre Métropolitain in the ParkThis summer, the OM is playing in the park. Catch the July 24 concert at Vancouver Park in l’Île-des-Sœurs, featuring the great classics from Mozart and Schubert directed by Andrei Fehrer. Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin will direct the Fantasy-Overture from Romeo and Juliet and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9 on two occasions – July 29 at the park on l’Île Lebel de Repentigny and July 30at the Chalet de la Montagne as part of the Campbell Concerts series. www.orchestremetropolitain.comConcerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro…

San Diego Opera Announces Opera Exposed 2016 Roster and Event

By Newswire on 20 July 2015 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Audience Engagement Ensemble from the Company’s University Partnership Program to Present Free Community ConcertsSan Diego, CA – San Diego Opera is pleased to announce the 2015-2016 Opera Exposed artists and events. Opera Exposed is a touring opera ensemble comprised of students from San Diego Opera’s University Partnership Program which currently includes vocal arts students from SDSU and Point Loma Nazarene University. All of the participants have auditioned into the program and represent San Diego Opera in recitals throughout the communities and neighborhoods of San Diego County, with a focus on underserved neighborhoods. In return, the students receive master classes with…

This Week in Montreal: July 20 to 26

By Michele Duguay on 20 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Andrei Feher (Photo: Pierre-Etienne Bergeron)This Week in Montreal: July 20 to 26Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Larforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre Da…

The National Arts Centre Lowers the Flag in Honour of Opera Singer Jon Vickers

By Newswire on 14 July 2015 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

OTTAWA (Canada) – The National Arts Centre, Canada’s home of the performing arts, lowered its flag in honour of Canadian opera great Jon Vickers today. Vickers was the winner of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts, and performed at the NAC on numerous occasions over the years. His portrait is in the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards hallway of the NAC in Ottawa. “He was one of Canada’s greatest gifts to the world of opera,” said Peter Herrndorf the President and CEO of the NAC. “We were honoured to have Jon perform with…

This Week in Montreal: July 13 to 19

By Michele Duguay on 13 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Alexandre Da Costa (Photo: Bo Huang)This Week in Montreal: July 13 to 19Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Laforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre…

Culchahworks Arts Collective and Panamania presented by CIBC Present the world premiere of Obeah Opera A Nicole Brooks Vision in association with Nightwood Theatre and b current

By Newswire on 9 July 2015 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

TORONTO (July 7, 2015) – Culchahworks Arts Collective and Panamania in association with Nightwood Theatre and b current proudly present the world premiere of Obeah Opera, a groundbreaking a cappella musical odyssey conceived, written and composed by Culchahworks Co-Artistic Director Nicole Brooks that runsTuesday August 4 to Saturday, August 8 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in The Distillery District (Media Night August 6). Tickets are available at http://youngcentre.ca/ or by calling the Young Centre Box Office at 416-866-8666 and will be available athttp://obeahopera.com/within the week.Obeah Opera is a hand clapping, foot stomping, spirit-lifting, magical musical sensation unlike…

This Week in Montreal: July 6 to 12

By Michele Duguay on 6 July 2015 Orchestral, This Week in Montreal

Andrei Feher (Photo: Pierre-Etienne Bergeron)This Week in Montreal: July 6 to 12Concerts Populaires de MontrealThe Orchestre Métropolitain and maestro Julian Kuerti will open the Concerts Populaires series on June 25 with young Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, Radio-Canada’s Discovery of the Year in 2014-2015. The OM is back on July 23, under the baton of young conductor Andrei Feher, recently named Discovery of the Year at the 2015 Prix Opus gala. Audiences will hear Gianna Corbisiero in a program of Gershwin (July 9) and Marc Hervieux singing musicals (July 30) conducted by Stéphane Laforest. A concert-show with Richard Desjardins, Alexandre Da…

Russian Soprano Ekaterina Bakanova Makes Double Debut at Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Arena di Verona

By Newswire on 2 July 2015 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Vienna/Verona/London – This summer, Russian born soprano Ekaterina Bakanova is making her double debut at two of the most prestigious opera stages in the world: From 9th until 16th July she will sing the role of Musetta in “La Bohème” at the Royal Opera House in London alongside Piotr Beczala. After that she will empersonate Donna Anna in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the great open-air spectacles in the Arena di Verona (30th July, 12th August).Ekaterina Bakanova has recently become a secret tip among international opera stages from Beijing to Rio de Janeiro. Particulary in Italy, the soprano (*1984) is already…

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