All is Love, the new Opera Atelier production is a heterogeneous mix of numbers that impress individually but fail to add up to a dramatically satisfying whole.
Toronto, ON – April 12, 2023 – In a landmark moment during their golden jubilee celebrations, the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto proudly designates Lydia Adams as Conductor Emerita, recognizing her exceptional contributions to the choir’s legacy. Adams, who assumed leadership in 1984, played an instrumental role in transforming the choir into an internationally acclaimed ensemble over her remarkable 35-year tenure. Mary Gray, Board Chair of the Amadeus Choir, expressed her gratitude and enthusiasm, stating, “We are thrilled to announce Lydia Adams as Conductor Emerita of the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto. Lydia’s enduring impact has shaped our choir into…
Welcome to the April/May 2024 national issue of La Scena Musicale. Tenor Pene Pati is featured on the cover of the English edition, and Canadian playwright Mishka Lavigne is our French-edition cover artist. This issue marks our fifth of six national issues, in our six-issue 28th season. CURRENT ISSUE This issue contains an exciting variety of content—from interviews with stars of the operatic stage such as Pene Pati, Michael Spyres, and Joyce El-Khoury, to features on arts leaders Dr. Peter Simon and Mark Gillespie. We sit down with Les Violons du Roy, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Pro Musica, the Festival…
The concept behind Michael Spyres’s new album, In the Shadows, is an original one—as is the order of the selected repertoire.
At the time of its première in 1874, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem was described by sharp-tongued conductor Hans von Bülow as “an opera in ecclesiastical robes.”
La Chapelle de Québec is one of the crown jewels of Canada’s classical music scene.
Composed by Haitian-born, Montreal-based David Bontemps, who also adapted fellow Haitian Flaubert Bolivar’s award-winning play, La Flambeau draws its subject matter from a rich mythology based in Haitian Vodou traditions.
The latest recording by American tenor Michael Spyres, In the Shadows, exemplifies just what makes him stand out in the current hype-driven, Instagram-heavy opera landscape.
On the heels of Backstage at Carnegie Hall, composer Tim Brady pursues his journey into the world of opera with Information, the second instalment in a cycle of four entitled Hope.
What Guylaine Lemaire found as artistic director of CAMMAC was a musical environment that fostered new passions and forged lifetime friendships like no other.
