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Heidi Stober (Alice B. Toklas) and Stephanie Blythe (Gertrude Stein), Photo: Erin Baiano

On a Recent Visit with Gertrude Stein

By Charles Geyer on 22 October 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Opera

OPERA REVIEW/ARTIST INTERVIEWS: Ricky Ian Gordon’s and Royce Vavrek’s 27, an opera about Gertrude Stein; at New York’s City Center, October 20 and 21, 2016. 27, the new opera about Gertrude Stein and her artistic cronies by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Royce Vavrek, was commissioned by and premiered at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2014. But the current City Center incarnation represents both a New York and a world premiere of the opera, as now reimagined and expanded by the composer and his original creative team to honor the 75th anniversary of that New York institution formerly…

Daily News Roundup: 21 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 21 October 2016 Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral

The English National Opera (ENO) appoints British conductor Martyn Brabbins as its new Music Director. He replaces Mark Wrigglesworth who resigned in March. The ENO seeks stability after two years of cuts and crises. The Victoria Symphony named Christian Kluxen to succeed Tania Miller next year as Music Director. The Danish 34-year-old assistant conductor at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was a Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2014-2015. Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today the renewal of General Director Anthony Freud’s five-year contract until the 2020-2021 season.

Daily News Roundup: 19 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 19 October 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Orchestral

The composer of the shortest opera, Peter Reynolds, died on October 11 at his home in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The Welsh composer created Sands of Time in 1993, which lasts only four minutes. The Verbier Festival has appointed Canadian Stephen McHolm as Director of the Verbier Festival Academy and Special Projects on December 1, 2016. He replaces Christian Thompson who will work full-time at the Orchestre National de Lyon. McHolm is currently the Artistic Director of the Honens International Piano Competition in Calgary.

Daily News Roundup: 18 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 18 October 2016 Classical Music, Daily News Roundup, Opera, Popular Music, Strings

Jordan de Souza, 28, gets appointed as Kapellmesiter at the Komische Oper Berlin for the 2016-2017 season. The Toronto-born conductor was named the Head of Music at Germany’s Komische Oper Berlin last year. He will conduct a new production and a symphony concert in the orchestra’s series among the approximate 45 performances this season. Rock’n’roll legend, Chuck Berry who celebrates his 90th birthday today, announced he is releasing a new album next year. The album titled Chuck comes 38 years after his last album. Pianist Yuja Wang was named the 2017 artist of the year of Musical America. The piano…

Elizabeth Futral as Alice B. Toklas with Theo Lebow, Tobias Greenhalgh, and Daniel Brevik as paintings in Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2014 production of “27.” Photo by Ken Howard.

Gertrude Stein is at Home! You are Cordially Invited

By Charles Geyer on 18 October 2016 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Interviews, Opera

An Advance Profile of Ricky Ian Gordon’s 27, an opera about Gertrude Stein, with libretto by Royce Vavrek, to be presented at New York’s City Center, October 20 and 21, 2016. “Knock, knock” was no joke at chez Gertrude Stein in early 20th-century Paris. Rather, a knock at the private side entrance of one cramped room in Stein’s small apartment at 27 rue de Fleurus cued the commencement of serious and exciting business on any given Saturday evening. That was when the likes of Matisse and Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Man Ray, and other artists, writers, and avant-garde headliners of…

Guy Nadon

Daily News Roundup: 12 October 2016

By Nicole Yeba on 12 October 2016 Daily News Roundup, Mainstream Jazz, Opera, Orchestral, Scena Jazz

+ Jazz musician Guy Nadon, known as “le roi du drum” died at the age of 82. He passed away at 2 a.m. on Sunday in the Maison Neuve residence for older people where he lost his battle against kidney disease. He performed his last concert at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in June 2016. In 1998, he was awarded the jazz fest’s Oscar Peterson Award for outstanding contributions to the development of Canadian jazz. (English/French) + Peter Allen, voice on the radio for the Met Opera died at 96. He passed away at his home on Saturday in Manhattan. He presided…

Benefit Concert for the Kidney Foundation of Canada by the Orchestre Métropolitain with Marie-Josée Lord

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Orchestral, Vocal

A concert by the Orchestre Métropolitain, featuring Marie-Josée Lord, in support of people living with kidney disease Montreal, October 12, 2016 – The New Lease on Life benefit event for The Kidney Foundation of Canada is set to take place on November 11, 2016, at La Maison Symphonique. This special concert will be the event’s second edition. The benefit event will help a good cause, the fight to beat kidney disease, which currently affects over 550,000 people in Quebec. The concert’s artistic theme will include symphonic works ranging from Carmen to West Side Story and will be accompanied by the…

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The Ultimate Opera Gala Starring Anna Netrebko in Toronto

By Newswire on 12 October 2016 Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Show One Productions In Collaboration With The Canadian Opera Company PROUDLY PRESENTS TRIO MAGNIFICO The Ultimate Opera Gala STARRING ANNA NETREBKO, soprano Ÿ YUSIF EYVAZOV, tenor DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, baritone World Premiere Appearance of Magnificent Trio of Opera Stars! JADER BIGNAMINI, conductor Ÿ CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ORCHESTRA TUESDAY, APRIL 25 AT 7:30PM Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto ON SALE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 10:00 AM Toronto, October 11, 2016 … Svetlana Dvoretsky of Show One Productions in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company, Alexander Neef, General Director, is proud to present the world premiere appearance of a trio of today’s most remarkable opera…

Lebrecht Weekly – Arnold Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder (Chandos)

By Norman Lebrecht on 7 October 2016 Art Song, Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

It is so rare to hear the Gurre Lieder live that most of us are acquainted with it only on record – in memorable interpretations by Rafael Kubelik, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado and others. The work employs a vast orchestra and chorus for an unbroken duration of ninety minutes, much of which occupies a zone of uncertainty as to whether what we are hearing is ancient or modern. Schoenberg began composing the cycle in Wagnerian modalities in 1900, abandoned it three years later, finished it in 1911 as a provocative atonalist, and achieved the greatest triumph of his…

Joshua Bell, Photo: Eric Kabik

Ottawa Previews: October 2016

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 October 2016 Choral, La Scena Spotlight, Orchestral, Piano, Romantic, Violin

NACO Opening The NAC Orchestra opens its 2016–17 season in the newly renovated Southam Hall with a very busy October, including several soloists not to be missed. On October 6 and 7, virtuoso Joshua Bell performs the Brahms Violin Concerto in a program that includes Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Music Director Alexander Shelley conducts after his 7PM pre-concert talk with music journalist Jean-Jacques Van Vlasselaer (Oct. 6 & 7, 8PM, NAC Southam Hall). www.nac-cna.ca Schumann and the Songwriters Angela Hewitt joins Shelley and the NACO for an evening of early Schumann and Beethoven for the first performance in the…

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