Review | Kerson Leong Dazzles in Lopsided Les Violons du Roy Program
For Valentine’s Day, Les Violons du Roy presented a program full of pathos at Montreal’s Bourgie Hall. On the program were iconic excerpts from J.S…
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Review | Benjamin Appl & Eric Lu’s Schwanengesang at Bourgie Hall
A German-born baritone like Benjamin Appl is certainly no stranger to Schubert’s work. I can only assume that the Austrian composer’s impressive list of over…
Review | Peter Sellars’ Unhip Castor et Pollux in Paris
Nothing is less hip than a strenuous attempt to be hip. This is how polite society would describe Paul Sellars’ take on Rameau’s Castor et…
Review | Joyce El-Khoury Triumphs as Médée in Paris
Premiered in Paris in 1797, Cherubini’s Médée was originally presented with a French libretto, based on Euripides’ play from Greek antiquity. It’s this version that is currently…
Review | Vancouver Opera’s Flight: Laugh Until You Cry
On Feb. 8, Vancouver Opera presented the local premiere of Jonathan Dove’s 1998 opera, Flight. This opera—inspired by the true story of an Iranian refugee…
Review | Lisette Oropesa Triumphs in Misguided Paris I puritani
Bellini’s final opera, I puritani (1835), premiered shortly before the composer’s untimely death by accidental poisoning. It is one of the highpoints in the romantic…
Review | A Very Canadian Dialogues des carmélites in Valencia
Based on Die Letzte am Schafott (“The Song at the Scaffold”), a novella about the execution by guillotine of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne in…
Review | La Nef: From Double-Digit Cold to Sunny Spain
I was at a dinner party on a very cold, very wintry night right after Christmas, and one of the guests (a non-musician) said, “Wouldn’t…
Review | Louis Lortie Plays Crystal Clear Ravel
It is a rare and special concert when one senses that not only the performer, but the composer, is on stage. On February 4 at…
Review | Orchestre symphonique de Laval and the Idea of North
Winter has been in full swing this past week and with it, the fourth edition of Orchestre symphonique de Laval (OSL)’s Festival classique hivernal. The…
