Festival Classica is proud to announce the creation of the Les Grands accords Classica series, a new line of large-scale concerts that will enhance the event’s regular program.
Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis received a regal welcome befitting his longstanding kinship with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and its audience.
The release of the “final” Beatles song, Now and Then, has been bittersweet for fans of the 1960s boy band.
Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) is a pillar of the Canadian opera scene. The award-winning company has been pushing boundaries and challenging audiences to experience opera in exciting, new ways since its founding in 2010 by director, librettist, educator, and administrator Joel Ivany, and his partner, soprano Miriam Khalil. Ivany didn’t grow up with opera. He recalls watching La Bohème, starring Pavarotti, on Laser Disk, and later, going to the Canadian Opera Company (COC) for the first time, in Grade 13. Entranced by the “big stage, big sound, big … everything,” he remembers thinking: “How are we going to…
This world-première recording of Etiquette, a one-act chamber opera with music by Monica Pearce and libretto by John Terauds, features sopranos Maureen Batt and Erin Bardua.
On Dec. 2, opera lovers around the world will celebrate the centennial of Maria Callas’s birth.
In the company of the Luminous Voices vocal ensemble, Andrew Balfour presents Ispiciwin, a new album of compositions inspired by Cree texts.
Conductor Kathleen Allan joined the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto as their Artistic Director in July of 2019. Her first exciting season with the group was brought to an abrupt halt, though, by the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Since then, she has been “blown away by the (choir’s) community commitment,” she says, which has played a massive role in allowing the group to return to full-scale live concerts, many of which have sold out in the last two years. This year marks the organization’s 50th anniversary. Founded in 1973 by Robert Palmai, Amadeus boasts an impressive history. Silver…
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Initiated by Sharon Azrieli, the UdeM–McGill Piano Vocal Accompaniment Residency aims to address “the lack of collaborative pianists with the necessary skills to work with experienced singers.”
