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Bold Programming at the Inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival

By Newswire on 21 September 2016 Classical, Contemporary, Multimedia, Newswire, Opera, Romantic, Visual Arts

VO PRESENTS THREE NEW OPERA PRODUCTIONS AND BOLD PROGRAMMING AT THE INAUGURAL VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL Otello, Dead Man Walking and The Marriage of Figaro feature superb singers, stunning designs Programming also includes a new commissioned video installation by award-winning artist Paul Wong, performances by vocal stylist Ute Lemper and Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq Many events and experiences for audiences of all ages Vancouver, BC ~ Three dazzling new opera productions are at the core of the inaugural Vancouver Opera Festival, April 28 to May 13, 2017. Full-scale productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s late-career masterpiece Otello, featuring powerful tenor Clifton Forbis in…

Olivia Betzen (Manon) and Sean Christensen (Des Grieux), Manon, Photo: Mark Baker

The Art, the Craft, the dell’Arte Opera Ensemble

By Charles Geyer on 20 September 2016 Art Song, Concert Reviews, La Scena Spotlight, Opera

OPERA REVIEW AND COMPANY PROFILE: dell’Arte Opera Ensemble’s “Violetta & Her Sisters”: “Scenes from the Demi-Monde” (August 23, 2016) Massenet’s Manon (August 24, 2016) Verdi’s La traviata (August 25, 2016) “Chansons de Baudelaire” (August 27, 2016) Libiamo! Autumn ought not arrive without our noting that New York City enjoyed a mini-“Summer of the Courtesan.” For two weeks in August (the 13th through the 28th), one could join in a bittersweet brindisi, tip a glass to free-spirited pleasure, and shed a tear for loveliness cut down too young. The program was “Violetta & Her Sisters,” and it was the fruit of…

Aida (Anna Markarova), Photo: Yves Renaud

Cautious Choice Aida Pays Off at the Opéra de Montréal

By Kiersten van Vliet on 19 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Opera, Romantic

Returning to the Opéra de Montréal stage for the first time in a decade, Verdi’s Aida opened last night in a flash of grandeur. Set in a fictional pharaonic Egypt brought to life by the Romantic imagination, Aida is a classic story of forbidden love, jealousy, and revenge. Given the relative risk of Another Brick in the Wall (March 2017), a new commission from first-time opera composer Julien Bilodeau based on Pink Floyd’s seminal album The Wall, it seems judicious to open the season with this well-loved standard. While it remains secure in the operatic canon, Opéra de Montréal’s production…

XPND Capital Announces a Major Investment in Quebec’s Cultural and Entertainment Sectors

By Newswire on 15 September 2016 Newswire, Opera

Mishmash Takes the Stage to Shine an International Spotlight on Montreal Creativity MONTREAL, Sept. 15, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ – XPND Capital, through its XPNDCroissance fund, announces the creation of Mishmash, an experience collective whose mission is to promote the cutting-edge, innovative spirit of Montreal andQuebec creators at the international level. The first members of Mishmash are La Tribu, Piknic Électronik Group and Productions Opéra Concept MP—producer ofAnother Brick In The Wall-The Opera. Mishmash will facilitate collaborations between the members of the collective to offer integrated, value added experiences in terms of creativity, resources and international potential. “Mishmash will act as a driving…

Cerise Lim Jacobs, Photo: James Daniel

White Snake Walking – Don’t Tread on Her!

By Charles Geyer on 14 September 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

OPERA REVIEW: The Ouroboros Trilogy (Naga; Madame White Snake; Gilgamesh) INTERVIEW: Cerise Lim Jacobs Caution: There are snakes on this immortal plane! The universe according to librettist/mythmaker Cerise Lim Jacobs is a treacherous, beautiful reptilian playground where serpent-demons shapeshift, meddle with humanity, instigate epic battles and hanker after love. It’s a coil of a cosmos, and we get to tour its every whiplash curve in Jacobs’ magnificent and extravagant new operatic magnum opus, The Ouroboros Trilogy, which debuted in a day-long performance marathon at Boston’s Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater on Saturday, September 10, 2016 (co-produced by the dauntless and cutting-edge Beth…

Lebrecht Weekly – Michael Nyman: The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Naxos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 9 September 2016 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Opera

In the spring of 1985 I saw three opera world premieres in London in as many weeks. There was Busoni’s Doctor Faust in the restored original ending, Birtwistle’s breakthough opera The Mask of Orpheus and last, and smallest, Michael Nyman’s chamber opera on a troubling case history by the neurologist Oliver Sacks. I felt confident at the time that Nyman’s opera would be revived soon and often, but that’s not how it goes. Chamber operas are notoriously hard to get staged, falling as they do between too many institutional stools. All the more reason, then, to welcome a new recording…

Giordano Bruno Comes to Dublin in Roger Doyle’s Electronic Opera “Heresy”

By Newswire on 1 September 2016 Contemporary, Newswire, Opera

Heresy is the world premiere and first opera by renowned Irish composer, Roger Doyle. Mr. Doyle, considered “The Godfather of Irish Electronic Music,” speaks of his vast body of compositions as “a celebration of the multiplicity of musical languages and evolving technologies.” Based in Dublin, META PRODUCTIONS was founded in 2013 by Roger Doyle & Eric Fraad. It is committed to exploring new forms of opera for the 21st century & creating works that live within the best traditions of opera & reformulating these in innovative & unique ways. META PRODUCTIONS has assembled a dazzling team of artists for this unique operatic extravaganza:…

Joanie Lapalme

Joanie Lapalme: Fighting for the Opera

By Natasha Beaudin Pearson on 1 September 2016 Arts Industry, Classical, Opera

Along with Jean-François Séguin and Guillaume Marion, Joanie Lapalme had the idea to start the Opéra de Montreal’s Young Associates Committee after learning that New York’s Metropolitan Opera hosted a similar initiative.

Jordan de Souza

La Rentrée Musicale: Vocal & Opera

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 September 2016 Art Song, Choral, La Scena Spotlight, Opera

Opera Montreal’s opera season begins with the Opéra de Montréal’s Aida on September 17. Running until the 24, the show features Kamen Chanev (Radames), Olesya Petrova (Amneris), Gregory Dahl (Amonasro), Phillipe Ens (Ramfis), Anatoli Sivko (The King of Egypt), with Russian soprano Anna Markarova in the title role. Paul Nadler conducts. The November production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni features the return of Canadian bass-baritone Gordon Bintner to the Opéra de Montréal stage as the philandering anti-hero. Includes an all-Canadian cast of Daniel Okulitch (Leporello), Emily Dorn (Donna Anna), Jean-Michel Richer (Don Ottavio), Layla Claire (Donna Elvira), as well as up-and-coming…

Filumena, Banff Centre, Photo: Don Lee

New Opera Productions in Canada

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 September 2016 Canadian Music, Classical, Contemporary, La Scena Spotlight, Opera, Romantic

The 2017–18 season is shaping up to be a milestone for new opera productions by Canadian companies. In celebration of the country’s 150th birthday, several works with Canadian themes will get their world premieres in Calgary, Montreal, and Toronto. Furthermore, Vancouver Opera has a watershed season with the inaugural year of the Vancouver Opera Festival. If you missed its triumphant opening run in Montreal last spring, Opéra de Montreal’s production of Les Feluettes (Lilies) travels to Pacific Opera Victoria this April. The Lost Operas of Mozart City Opera of Vancouver, 27 to 29 October, 2016 It’s a little-known fact that…

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