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Soprano Jocelyn Fralick receives Career Blueprint in IRCPA’s Ten Singing Stars – The New Generation Program

By Newswire on 20 October 2021 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Soprano Jocelyn Fralick, who recently returned to Toronto after two years’ study in Amsterdam, will have to pack her bags again for three days in New York. On Friday, October 15, she was named recipient of the coveted Career Blueprint, in the fourth edition of Ten Singing Stars – The New Generation, presented by the International Resource Centre for Performing Artists. The announcement was made at the conclusion of the Ten Singing Stars concert at Toronto’s Zoomer Hall, broadcast live on The New Classical 96.3 FM and streamed on the station’s website and YouTube channel. The singers performed operatic arias…

Bangkok Opera's 2006 production of Wagner's Das Rheingold

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By Robert Markow on 7 October 2021 Arts Industry, Opera, Orchestral

There are at least three other composers name “Tchaikovsky” besides the famous one? In addition to Piotr Ilyich there are Alexander (b. 1946), his uncle Boris (1925-1996), and André (1935-1982), who was Polish. None of them were related to Piotr Ilyich. Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the animals was neither performed in public nor published during the composer’s lifetime? It went on to become one of the most popular works in the entire repertory of classical music, yet the composer himself forbade all performances beyond a single private one given for his friends during Carnival season (late winter) in 1886. (Saint-Saëns died…

Ensemble Caprice. Photo: Antoine Saito

Upcoming concerts (October-November 2021)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 6 October 2021 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Opera

New edition of the CIOC… at last! The Canadian International Organ Competition is making a comeback after more than four years. Scheduled for last year, the event, which takes place every three years in October, had to be postponed because of the pandemic. After 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2017, this is therefore the fifth edition of the CIOC and the first with Jean-Willy Kunz as artistic director. More than a competition, this is a real festival that extends throughout the month. There will be concerts by some members of the jury from Oct. 13, the day before the first semi-final…

Jean-Paul Jeannotte (1926-2021)

By Olivier Bergeron on 5 October 2021 Arts Industry, Vocal

Tenor Jean-Paul Jeannotte passed away in Montreal on Sept. 9 at the age of 95. A refined musician, he was also a professor, notably at Université Laval, and an administrator in various Quebec cultural organizations for many years. Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987 and inducted into the Canadian Opera Hall of Fame in 1994, his accomplishments are now recognized by several generations of musicians and music lovers in Quebec and around the world. Initially trained in Montreal, he continued his vocal studies in Paris after the Second World War under the tutelage of Madame d’Estainville Rousset,…

La Scena Special on Indigenous Arts Revisited

By La Scena Musicale Team on 30 September 2021 Canadian Music, Indigenous, Popular Music, Vocal

On Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30, 2021), La Scena revisits our Special on Indigenous Arts from June 2018. Below are articles on Indigenous artists. Cover Story: Jeremy Dutcher: A Musical Mosaic Portraits of Visual Artists Nadia Myre, Rebecca Belmore and Sylvain Rivard Alanis Obomsawin: Our People Will Be Healed Manon Barbeau & the Wapikoni Mobile: Bringing Production to the People Montreal First Peoples Festival: Creating a new collective “us” Ondinnok: A theatre in search of healing Lara Kramer: Generational Questioning Émilie Monnet: Building Bridges Joséphine Bacon: A Linguistic Legacy Musique Nomade: The Wapikoni Mobile of…

Debra Lew Harder Named Metropolitan Opera Radio Host, Only the Fifth in the Company’s History

By Newswire on 21 September 2021 Arts Industry, Opera

New York, NY (September 20, 2021)— The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it has appointed Debra Lew Harder as the new host of its radio broadcasts, the longest-running classical music program in American radio history, which began 90 years ago in 1931. Only the fifth person to serve in this capacity, Ms. Lew Harder follows in the footsteps of former legendary voices of the Met, Milton Cross (1931–1975), Peter Allen (1975-2004), Margaret Juntwait (2004–2015), and, most recently, Mary Jo Heath (2016–2021). Ms. Lew Harder comes to the Met from WRTI, the classical music and jazz public radio station in Philadelphia.…

L’orangeraie: Chants Libres presents a world premiere

By Newswire on 20 September 2021 Arts Industry, Contemporary, Opera

Montreal, September 16, 2021 — The vocal creation company CHANTS LIBRES is delighted to announce the world -premiere of its latest creation, L’orangeraie by Zad Moultaka (music) and Larry Tremblay (libretto), staged by -Pauline Vaillancourt. The performances will take place in the heart of the Quartier des spectacles in the Ludger–Duvernay Theatre of Montreal’s Monument-National on October 19, 20 and 21, 2021, and then again on November 5 and 6, 2021, at Le Diamant in Quebec City as part of their series — Art Lyrique. Artistic Director Pauline Vaillancourt co-founded this company in 1990 with Joseph Saint-Gelais and Renald Tremblay.…

Canadian Opera Company Adds Three In-Person Productions to 2021/2022 Season

By Newswire on 17 September 2021 Newswire, Opera

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company is inviting audiences to three new mainstage productions at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, as part of its 2021/2022 season offerings: Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, and The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. “Through our digital fall, it’s been wonderful to be able to support artists, creators, and technicians in returning to the stage and sharing their talents with audiences from coast to coast to coast,” says COC General Director Perryn Leech. “Today, we’re delighted to announce even more ways to access the very best in…

Les Violons du Roy: a great reunion

By Justin Bernard on 16 September 2021 Chamber Music, Classical, Opera

They have not been led by their conductor, Jonathan Cohen, since the start of the pandemic. Thus the spirit of a reunion will prevail on Sept. 22, when Les Violons du Roy present their first concert of the season at the Palais Montcalm. There will be a reunion also with the French soprano Sandrine Piau, who sang for the first time with this Quebec City chamber orchestra in 2003. “She was to give a gala concert with us in April 2020,” explains Les Violons artistic director Laurent Patenaude. “This will be our first guest from abroad since the…

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Choral Return: Long-Awaited But Complicated

By Marie-Claire Fafard-Blais on 13 September 2021 Choral, Vocal

Most amateur choirs in Quebec have ceased or considerably slowed their activities since March 2020. The start of the 2021 choral season promises to have more freedom, although many constraints are still in place. The limit of 25 people allowed to meet in the same room is a major constraint for choirs, which often have more than double this number. About 75% of choirs in the Alliance chorale du Québec fall into this category, representing nearly 14,000 singers who are directly affected. The situation creates a major logistical challenge for amateur choirs, which often have limited means and cannot contemplate…

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