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Daily News Roundup: 18 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 18 October 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Popular Music, Strings

Jordan de Souza, 28, gets appointed as Kapellmesiter at the Komische Oper Berlin for the 2016-2017 season. The Toronto-born conductor was named the Head of Music at Germany’s Komische Oper Berlin last year. He will conduct a new production and a symphony concert in the orchestra’s series among the approximate 45 performances this season. Rock’n’roll legend, Chuck Berry who celebrates his 90th birthday today, announced he is releasing a new album next year. The album titled Chuck comes 38 years after his last album. Pianist Yuja Wang was named the 2017 artist of the year of Musical America. The piano…

Elizabeth Futral as Alice B. Toklas with Theo Lebow, Tobias Greenhalgh, and Daniel Brevik as paintings in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2014 production of “27.” Photo by Ken Howard.

Gertrude Stein is at Home! You are Cordially Invited

By Charles Geyer on 18 October 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Interviews, Opera

An Advance Profile of Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27, an opera about Gertrude Stein, with libretto by Royce Vavrek, to be presented at New York’s City Center, October 20 and 21, 2016. “Knock, knock” was no joke at chez Gertrude Stein in early 20th-century Paris. Rather, a knock at the private side entrance of one cramped room in Stein’s small apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus cued the commencement of serious and exciting business on any given Saturday evening. That was when the likes of Matisse and Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Man Ray, and other artists, writers, and avant-garde headliners of…

Guy Nadon

Daily News Roundup: 12 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 12 October 2016 Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Orchestral, Scena Jazz

+ Jazz musician Guy Nadon, known as “le roi du drum” died at the age of 82. He passed away at 2 a.m. on Sunday in the Maison Neuve residence for older people where he lost his battle against kidney disease. He performed his last concert at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in June 2016. In 1998, he was awarded the jazz fest’s Oscar Peterson Award for outstanding contributions to the development of Canadian jazz. (English/French) + Peter Allen, voice on the radio for the Met Opera died at 96. He passed away at his home on Saturday in Manhattan. He presided…

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The Ultimate Opera Gala Starring Anna Netrebko in Toronto

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Show One Productions In Collaboration With The Canadian Opera Company PROUDLY PRESENTS TRIO MAGNIFICO The Ultimate Opera Gala STARRING ANNA NETREBKO, soprano Ÿ YUSIF EYVAZOV, tenor DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, baritone World Premiere Appearance of Magnificent Trio of Opera Stars! JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor Ÿ CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA TUESDAY, APRIL 25 AT 7:30PM Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto ON SALE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 10:00 AM Toronto, October 11, 2016 … Svetlana Dvoretsky of Show One Productions in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company, Alexander Neef, General Director, is proud to present the world premiere appearance of a trio of today’s most remarkable opera…

Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Photo: Alain Lefort

Industry News: October 2016

By Shira Gilbert on 1 October 2016 Arts Industry, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Orchestral

by: Shira Gilbert and Kiersten van Vliet Orchestral Changeups Conductor Jean-Philippe Tremblay is the new Music Director of Montreal’s Orchestre de chambre Appassionata. Daniel Myssyk, also an associate professor and orchestra conductor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has stepped down from the post after founding the orchestra 15 years ago. Tremblay also remains at the helm of Orchestre de la francophonie. Education News Tim Price is the new Chair of the Board of Directors at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Price is currently also active on two corporate boards, Canadian Tire Corporation and Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc.…

Suor Angelica, Photo: Tam Lan Truong

Quebec Previews: October 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Strings

Les Caprices de la Nuit with Les Violons du Roy On October 13, join violinist and conductor Anthony Marwood and Les Violons du Roy for an evening of exceptional chamber music for strings. The concert includes the String Sextet from Richard Strauss’s final opera Capriccio, Mozart’s charming String Quintet in G minor, and Schoenberg’s late-Romantic Verklärte Nacht. October 13, 8PM, Salle Raoul-Jobin, Palais Montcalm. www.violonsduroy.com James Ehnes @ 40 Continue the celebration of James Ehnes’s 40th birthday as he stops in Quebec City on his way across Canada. With longtime collaborator Andrew Armstrong, Ehnes will play chamber music by Handel,…

Princess Turandot (soprano Christine Goerke) proclaims a man will never possess her. Photo: Kelly & Massa for Opera Philadelphia.

Opera Philadelphia’s Bloody King, Bloody Princess

By Charles Geyer on 30 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera, Romantic

OPERA REVIEWS: Puccini’s Turandot; Third World Bunfight’s Macbeth (after Verdi) at Opera Philadelphia Opera Philadelphia’s Fall 2016 season fully exemplifies the company’s hallmarks – a commitment to variety and innovation, plus an enduring grounding in the classics. Besides the world premiere of Breaking the Waves (reviewed here on October 29), the season boasts a provocative and brilliant new adaptation of Verdi’s Macbeth by controversial and virtuosic South African theater troupe Third World Bunfight, as well as a glorious, quintessentially grand-opera production of Puccini’s crowning masterwork, Turandot. Puccini’s Crown Princess With his typically magnificent melodies, piquant exoticism, big passions and (atypical)…

Lebrecht Weekly – Pretty Yende: A Journey (Sony Classical)

By Norman Lebrecht on 30 September 2016 Lebrecht Weekly, Opera

The classical music industry does not so much promote talent as postpone it. Faced with a gleaming young star, the male curators of fame (all men) then seek validation in endless meetings. Agents and record producers hedge and haver. They deliberate and dine out, they call another meeting, and another. Then they write a budget. No wonder the business is in such bother. It is now seven years since the South African soprano Pretty Yende burst on our ears as winner of the 2009 Hans Gabor competition in Vienna. It is five years since she won every single trophy in…

Bess (soprano Kiera Duffy) realizes she must “complete the task” in order to save Jan. Photo by Dominic M. Mercier for Opera Philadelphia.

With Breaking the Waves, Opera Philadelphia Breaks Toward the Future

By Charles Geyer on 29 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Interviews, Opera

OPERA REVIEW: Breaking the Waves at Opera Philadelphia Brotherly Love, Independence, the Phillie Phanatic – this city has always been a hotbed of innovative and big ideas. How apt, then, that Opera Philadelphia has taken on a big idea of its own, having committed to the future of indigenous American opera with a 2011 pledge to present, every season for ten years, a major new American operatic work. More than halfway through that initial pledge period, the company’s “American Repertoire Program” can claim impressive achievements, including Dark Sisters in 2012; A Coffin in Egypt in 2014; and Charlie Parker’s Yardbird…

Austin Opera Scores Big Time with Puts/Campbell “Manchurian Candidate”

By Paul E. Robinson on 28 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

The Manchurian Candidate. Music by Kevin Puts. Libretto by Mark Campbell. David Adam Moore (Sergeant Raymond Shaw). John Lindsey (Captain Ben Marco). Donnie Ray Albert (Andrew Hanley). Brenda Harris (Eleanor Iselin). Daniel Sumegi (Senator Johnny Iselin). Mela Dailey (Jocelyn Jordan). David Small (Senator Thomas Jordan). Jamie Van Eyck (Rosie Chayney). Austin Opera Orchestra and Chorus/Richard Buckley. Stage Director: Alison Moritz. Projection Designer: Greg Emetaz. Lighting Designer: Kathryn Eader. Long Center, Austin, Texas. At the height of the Cold War (1947-1991), Richard Condon wrote a remarkable novel, The Manchurian Candidate. Both a political thriller and a frightening scenario for a major penetration of…

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