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CD Review | Lully Armide, Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023

By Justin Bernard on 31 May 2024 Baroque and Early, CD and Book Reviews, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal

Lully – Armide Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Cyril Auvity, Tomislav Lavoie, Marie Perbost, Eva Zaïcik, Timothée Varon, David Tricou, Virgile Ancely, Anouk Defontenay and Jeanne Lefort; Le Poème Harmonique, Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon; Vincent Dumestre, music director Château de Versailles Spectacles, 2023 Recorded in May 2023 at Versailles’s Royal Opera, Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Armide here receives a royal treatment in every sense of the word. Le Poème Harmonique, directed by its founder Vincent Dumestre, showcases its expertise in the 17th- and 18th-century repertoire thanks to an interpretation full of the bounding energy which characterizes French music. Each section of instruments seems to…

Soprano Leah Hawkins named the Met’s 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award winner

By Newswire on 28 May 2024 Classical Music, La Scena Online, Opera

The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Leah Hawkins the winner of the 2024 Beverly Sills Artist Award.

Photo by Dahlia Katz

Concert Review | COC Ensemble Studio’s Don Pasquale: A Performance of Great Promise

By Joseph So on 17 May 2024 Classical Music, Opera, Toronto

The Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) Ensemble Studio is a major training ground for opera singers of the future.

LR: Rebecca Gray, Nicole O'Bomsawin, Analia Llugdar, Emné Nasereddine, Rachel Gray, Alejandra Odgers

Opéra d’aujourd’hui: A Journey Through Space and Time

By Justin Bernard on 2 May 2024 Classical Music, La Scena Online, Montreal, Opera

On May 30, audiences at Bourgie Hall will hear new works by three female composers, created in partnership with three female librettists.

Newswire | Orchestre classique de Montréal features stars of tomorrow in Mozart’s Requiem

By Newswire on 15 April 2024 Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Montreal, April 15, 2024 – The Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) presents Mozart’s celebrated Requiem, conducted by Jacques Lacombe, with 150 Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal (PCMR) and four wonderful soloists from the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra de Montréal. The concert will be presented at the Maison Symphonique on Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m. Pre-concert Benefit Event: Fundraiser “Petit Mozart” for Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal present a benefit event “Petit Mozart”: a pre-concert reception at 1:00 p.m. on May 5, sponsored by Desjardins, full of color and flavor. The event promises a surprise…

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.

CD Review | La Flambeau (Atma Classique, 2024)

By Gianmarco Segato on 29 March 2024 CD and Book Reviews, Opera

Composed by Haitian-born, Montreal-based David Bontemps, who also adapted fellow Haitian Flaubert Bolivar’s award-winning play, La Flambeau draws its subject matter from a rich mythology based in Haitian Vodou traditions.

Michael Spyres (Lohengrin, left) and Johanni van Oostrum (Elsa, right) in Opéra national du Rhin's Lohengrin (Photo by Klara Beck)

Michael Spyres: Wagner in Context

By Gianmarco Segato on 29 March 2024 Opera

The latest recording by American tenor Michael Spyres, In the Shadows, exemplifies just what makes him stand out in the current hype-driven, Instagram-heavy opera landscape.

Mishka Lavigne (left) and Tim Brady (right) (Photos provided)

Mishka Lavigne: Librettist to Tim Brady’s Information

By Justin Bernard on 29 March 2024 Montreal, Opera, Quebec Music

On the heels of Backstage at Carnegie Hall, composer Tim Brady pursues his journey into the world of opera with Information, the second instalment in a cycle of four entitled Hope.

Pene Pati (Photo by Bruno Tocaben)

Pene Pati: From YouTube to the Metropolitan Opera

By Adrian Rodriguez on 29 March 2024 Montreal, Opera

Pene Pati made time to sit down with La Scena Musicale while in Bordeaux, France, set to perform a concert at the Opéra national de Bordeaux the following day.

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