Review | Strong Cast Makes OdM’s Reine-garçon Worth Hearing
Opéra de Montréal’s production of La Reine-garçon showed how important a strong cast can be to carry a contemporary opera, especially when its story of…
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Concert Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
Based on last Saturday’s concert in Roy Thomson Hall, this next live concert recording of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella promises to be a winner.
Concert Review | VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents Verdi’s Ernani
VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert presents Verdi’s Ernani for Toronto Audiences
Concert Review | Shimmering Fauré & Confident Mussorgsky at the MSO
Maestra Eun Sun Kim, conductor of the San Francisco Opera, and local favourite pianist Louis Lortie joined forces with the MSO for a program of works for piano and orchestra.
Concert Review | Melnikov-Faust-Queyras Trio Performs Great Brahms at Koerner Hall
The Melnikov-Faust-Queyras Trio offered a program of Schumann, Carter, and Brahms at Koerner Hall, which had its ups and downs.
Review | A compelling, psychoanalytic Rusalka premieres at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest
It is now common parlance to note that even up until the early 1980s, Dvořák’s 1901 opera Rusalka was little-seen outside of its native Czech…
Concert Review | An Orchestral Spectacular From Gimeno and the TSO
There was no soloist at Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Respighi concert, but the greatly augmented TSO gave a near-capacity audience a stunning display of orchestral fireworks
Concert Review | COC’s Don Giovanni Leaves Audiences Yearning for More
In the COC’s latest performance of Don Giovanni, bass-baritone Gordon Bintner nails the titular role, and the orchestra breathes life into Mozart’s thrilling and elegant score.
Concert Review | The TSO Presents Pines of Rome
Those wondering whether enjoyment of classical music is on the rise or wane might look to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s live and recorded output.
Review | Bourgie Hall: Víkingur Ólafsson, the alchemist
When tackling the Goldberg Variations, it’s hard to take a path that hasn’t been trodden 100 times before. Víkingur Ólafsson’s vision of the work…
