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  Tuesday – February 21 1:30PM Longueuil Campus of UdeM, Édifice Port-de-Mer, 101, Place Charles-Lemoyne, Longueuil. 14$. Les matinées d’Opéramania au Campus Longueuil- I Puritani de Bellini. 1-855 790-1245. 7:00PM. Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal), 2550 Ontario Est, Montreal. 0-2$. Signer and pianist from Guadeloupe perform urban compositions. 514-872-7882. 7:00PM Music Faculty of the University of Montreal – Serge-Garant Hall (B-484), 200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy. Atelier d’improvisation – Classe de Jean-Marc Bouchard. 7:30PM. Bourgie Concert Hall, 1339, Sherbrooke Ouest Street, Montreal. 30$-100$. Camp Tutti concert bénéfice. 514-486-8727.  Wednesday – February 22 7:30PM – OM – INSPIRATION AND HOPE: Inspire by…

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Otello, Dead Man Walking and The Marriage of Figaro feature superb singers, stunning designs. Vancouver Opera Festival will be a wide ranging celebration of the vocal arts, designed to appeal to diverse audiences, all set conveniently in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Programming also includes a new commissioned video art installation by award-winning artist Paul Wong, performances by vocal stylist Ute Lemper and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq. VO PRESENTS THREE NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONS AND BOLD PROGRAMMING AT THE INAUGURAL VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVALActivities and experiences for audiences of all ages throughout the day Venues: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Orpheum…

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CANADA Unveil of the 2017-2018 program of the Metropolitan Opera on New York : Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead two operas. [New York Times] [Le Devoir] Interview with the two veterans jazz players, saxophonists Pat LaBarbera and Kirk MacDonald. [OttawaCitizen] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFSsCKhPcgY MAC : Unveil of two expositions « speaking about war and violence » : :  Et maintenant regardez cette machine, from Emanuel Licha, et Mundos, from Teresa Margolles. [Radio-Canada] [MAC – Mundos] [MAC – Et maintenant regardez cette machine]   INTERNATIONNAL The amazing Carlos Kleiber’s answer to someone who wants lessons’s leading. [Slippedisc] Death of Michael Naura, jazz German pianist, 82, on Monday. [Slippedisc] « Jennifer Ross, leader of…

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REVIEW:  Opera Philadelphia’s new production of Rossini’s early masterpiece, Tancredi; INTERVIEWS: with the production’s stars – mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, soprano Brenda Rae. “What a wonderful thing – to be able to go to the theater and see something like this, and have it be totally new!” says mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe of Tancredi, the early – and all too rarely revived – 1813 “heroic opera” by Gioachino Rossini, which Blythe currently headlines at Opera Philadelphia. “This piece is new!” Certainly, the crisp, glorious sound; the luxe look; and the energized performances of this exquisite new production all speak freshness and vitality.…

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CANADA OSM Pop Serie : Half Moon Run, Bruno Pelletier and Véronique DiCaire will perform with the OSM. [More infos – Radio-Canada] City of Gatineau finance the construction of artists’ co-op. [More infos – LaPresse] Three concerts in Granby for the Valentine’s Day. [More infos – LaPresse] « L’Amossois Charles Trudel, claviériste du Ben Racine Band [remporte le 1er prix] à Memphis lors de l’International Blues Challenge. » [More infos Radio-Canada] « The 2017 [Hindemith] prize, worth 20,000 Euros, goes to the Montreal-born composer Samy Moussa. Based in Paris and Berlin, Moussa, 32, was among the last proteges of Pierre Boulez.» [More infos Slippedisc]…

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DONIZETTI: The Daughter of the Regiment. Rachele Gilmore (Marie). René Barbera (Tonio). Cindy Sadler (Marquise de Berkenfield). Stefano de Peppo (Sulpice). Austin Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Richard Buckley. Directed by Rebecca Herman. Production provided by Ft. Worth Opera. Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, Texas, January 28, 2017   How does one man manage to write 75 operas in a life span of only 51 years? Gaetano Donizetti, had he lived as long as Verdi – 88 years – could easily have composed over 100. Amazing! Even more amazing is the quality of what he wrote. Lucia di Lammermoor is generally…

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Stradivarius à l’Opéra Alexandre Da Costa, violin, Vienna Symphony Orchestra Spectra 2016. SPECD7859. 60 min 10 s. This luscious CD of operatic masterpieces transcribed for solo violin shows Alexandre Da Costa at his best. Selections include the Habenera from Bizet’s Carmen, Méditation from Massenet’s Thaïs, Valse from Strauss’s Cavelleria Rusticana, and Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot. From the legendary Richard Wagner, Romance from Tannhauser, Liebeslied from Die Walküre and Preislied from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg are also included. The world-class Vienna Symphony prove to be ideal collaborators. Their full-bodied timbre is a dulcet match for Da Costa’s resonant style. Rather…

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Opéra de Montréal’s production of Another Brick in the Wall, inspired by Pink Floyd’s cult album, must be one of the most eagerly anticipated arts event of the year. Composer Julien Bilodeau was given the enormous task of turning the work by Roger Waters into an opera. He spoke to us about the process. After graduating from the Montreal’s Conservatoire de musique, Bilodeau completed further studies in Paris and Frankfurt, and in 2006 received the Robert Flemming prize from the Canada Council for the Arts for most promising composer. Since then he has composed works commissioned by the Montreal Symphony…

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The opera L’Amour de loin – or Love from Afar – premiered to conspicuous plaudits in Salzburg in 2000, and has enjoyed ­numerous productions around the globe. It also signaled the beginning of a ­remarkably fertile, ongoing collaboration ­between composer Kaija Saariaho and then first-time librettist Amin Maalouf. Maalouf has since partnered with Saariaho on three more musico-dramatic works, all of them sharing certain distinctive features: strong female characters, epitomizing a ­generative, rancorless strain of feminism; an elusive, gossamer air of mysticism; a usually gentle, ultimately affirmative perception of the workings of providence; and a subtle yet dogged curiosity about the paradox of simultaneous…

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Canadian violin virtuoso Alexandre Da Costa is on a mission – to bring classical music to the public. His latest project Stradivarius à l’Opéra consists of twelve gems from the operatic repertoire, ­reworked for solo violin and orchestra. He ­selected the works that he felt suited his large, lush tone, found the arrangements and then made a recording, now out on CD. Da Costa said that the project has two principal ­objectives: to appeal to opera lovers with a ­different approach to classics, and to reach out to those not familiar with the beauty of opera by providing an easily…

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