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This Weekend’s Streams: Dec. 11th-13th

By La Scena Musicale Team on 11 December 2020 Opera

Here are this weekend’s streamed concerts we think you shouldn’t miss! This new feature will run from now until January 1, 2021. To submit your event, please email [email protected]. Friday: collectif9 – RITUÆLS RITUÆLS presents a musical program spanning from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, notably including pieces by 2 Canadian composers: Nicole Lizée and Jocelyn Morlock. This 60-minute film sets itself apart from a traditional concert recording by the addition of cinematographic footage that adds a narrative dimension to the musical performance. For more information, visit www.collectif9.ca Met Opera Streams: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel Starring Audrey Luna, Amanda Echalaz,…

Opéra de Montréal Postpones La beauté du monde to 2022

By Newswire on 10 December 2020 Classical Music, Opera

Montreal, December 9, 2020 – Given the current status of the pandemic, Opéra de Montréal is postponing the presentation of its all-new original work, La beauté du monde, by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard and composer Julien Bilodeau, so as to include it on its program for next season, in the spring of 2022. Opéra de Montréal will contact all ticketholders to inform them of the next steps to take. “This past year has been an extremely difficult one for opera companies everywhere. The pandemic has compelled us to get more creative and innovative to serve our audience’s interests while…

Omer Meir Wellber to be new Music Director at Vienna’s Volksoper

By Newswire on 9 December 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

As of the start of Lotte de Beer’s period as Director, Omer Meir Wellber is to be Music Director at Volksoper Wien from 1 September 2022. In addition to directing new productions and repertoire performances, for five seasons he will be chiefly responsible for the musical life of the Volksoper and for the development of the ensemble, the orchestra and the chorus. From as early as spring 2021 he will be involved in the preparations for the new directorship. Lotte de Beer: “I couldn’t be happier about the appointment of Omer Meir Wellber as Music Director of Volksoper Wien from…

Brott Music Festival Launches Online Streaming Platform

By Newswire on 9 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Choral, Classical Music

Hamilton, Ontario – Boris Brott and the Brott Music Festival are pleased to announce that this December, they will launch ‘Brott To You’, an online video streaming platform where audiences can experience the magic of the Brott Music Festival from the comfort and safety of home. Most industries have taken a major hit due to the COVID 19 pandemic, but the arts are one of the most affected. Without any way to safely hold in-person concerts, music organizations have had to innovate, finding ways to safely share their gifts with the community and create performance opportunities for many partnering…

Today’s Streams: December 8th

By La Scena Musicale Team on 8 December 2020 Choral, Classical Music, Opera

Here are today’s streamed concerts you shouldn’t miss! Enjoy. This new feature will run from now until January 1, 2021. Orchestre Classique de Montréal presents Handel’s Messiah (read about it here!) Conducted by Boris Brott (Xavier Brossard-Ménard will conduct Part 1), with soprano Elizabeth Polese, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, tenor Marcel d’Entremont, baritone Hugo Laporte and l’Ensemble Les Rugissants. The webcast starts at 7:30 and will be available through Dec. 22 at www.orchestre.ca. The Metropolitan Opera presents John Adams’ Doctor Atomic Starring Sasha Cooke, Thomas Glenn, Gerald Finley, Richard Paul Fink, and Eric Owens, conducted by Alan Gilbert. From November 8, 2008. The stream…

COC hires a management man in Perryn Leech

By Arthur Kaptainis on 6 December 2020 Arts Industry, Opera

Perryn who? This was the consensus in the hours following the announcement by the Canadian Opera Company that Perryn Leech, a British-born resident of Houston, would succeed Alexander Neef as general director in March. I include in this informal survey a critic who lived for decades in Texas. Perryn who? Not that someone of whom we have never heard is disqualified by his or her anonymity from leading the biggest opera company in the land. The pantheon of Canadian arts management includes many people of whom, when they were first appointed, we had never heard. Alexander Neef, the COC general…

Photo: Annette B. Woloshen

As One is a surprisingly subtle success

By Arthur Kaptainis on 21 November 2020 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

As One might not be the only opera written for two vocal manifestations of the same character, but there cannot be many others. The risk involved in the undertaking lies not necessarily in the subject matter – the phenomenon of trans identity has been headline material for a while – as in the need to create drama without supporting characters. It says something about the virtues of this work of 2014 and the quality of its online Quebec premiere Friday under the auspices of the Orchestre classique de Montréal that two singers and a string quartet could hold the stage successfully…

Calgary Opera Announces its First Digital Production

By Newswire on 19 November 2020 Classical Music, Opera

CALGARY, AB – Despite ongoing challenges for the live performing arts sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, today Calgary Opera announced its first entree into the realm of digital programming with a virtual holiday concert. Streaming digitally on demand from December 18, 2020 to January 3, 2021, The Yuletide Sessions: a holiday concert from home is a 50-minute original concert production featuring a program of seasonal favourites blended with beloved classical masterworks performed by members of the company’s 2020-21 Emerging Artist Development Program. Sure to become a gem in Calgary Opera’s collection, these special performances have been conceptualized and crafted especially…

Canada’s only disability-run opera company creates new platform

By Newswire on 18 November 2020 Classical Music, Opera

November 16, 2020 (Vancouver, BC) – As COVID closures impact arts organizations worldwide, one opera company is hosting a discussion about the future of their art form. On Tuesday, December 1st at 2:00 pm PST / 5:00 pm EST, Vancouver’s Opera Mariposa will present the online panel MAKING OPERA ACCESSIBLE: during the pandemic and beyond. The event tackles forms of discrimination like ableism and audism in opera, and how theatres can pave the way for safe reopenings that will welcome everyone – including those who are D/deaf, disabled, and at higher risk for COVID-19. Opera Mariposa is Canada’s only disability-led…

Photo: Michael Slobodian

Mécénat Musica names Karina Gauvin inaugural Artist in Residence

By Newswire on 17 November 2020 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal

Montreal, November 17, 2020 – Karina Gauvin, Montreal soprano, is Mécénat Musica’s first collaborative Artist in Residence. Karina Gauvin is a soprano of international renown, collaborating and vivaciously performing with the greatest symphony orchestras, opera companies and recital series around the world. Ms. Gauvin has recorded 50+ albums and among her distinctions has three Grammy nominations. The New York Times describes Ms. Gauvin as singing “with serene ease and radianceʺ. Opera News calls her the “queen of Baroque opera”. As collaborative Artist in Residence Ms. Gauvin will be performing with Mécénat Musica organizations and is also a donor under the Mécénat Musica program to keep…

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