Celebrating a Century of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with Poetry and Music
PREVIEW: of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at 100, at New York City’s 92nd Street Y, Monday, November 19, 7:30 p.m.; and INTERVIEW: with pianist and conductor Ignat Solzhenitsyn,…
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Weekend Opera Roundup in Montreal (Nov. 9-11)
This past weekend (Friday, Nov. 9 to Sunday, Nov. 11), I attended four vocal music performances (three operas and one oratorio) which shows that Montreal…
Baritone Nathan Berg Shines in Opéra de Montréal’s Das Rheingold
Last Saturday, November 10, Opéra de Montréal premiered Der Rheingold, the first instalment from Wagner’s tetralogy Der Ring des Nibellungen. It marked the first time…
Review: Mozart’s Requiem by Mundia Productions
Last Saturday, November 10, Mundia Productions presented Mozart’s Requiem and the Piano Concerto #20 in d minor k.466 performed by the Orchestre philharmonique du Nouveau…
Alluring longueurs in restored Bayreuth Lohengrin
PRAGUE – Very strange. The knights and nobles were dressed in stylized medieval tunics and standing in orderly semicircles. When Lohengrin arrived, an alluring image…
“The Anchoress” – Songs of a Soul in Solitude
REVIEW: of The Anchoress, a world premiere of a new musical monodrama/song cycle composed by David Serkin Ludwig with text by Katie Ford, performed by…
Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O18: The Whirlwind That Was
REVIEW: of Opera Philadelphia’s “Festival O18” (September 20-30, 2018) – a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, composed by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Salvadore…
Werther: Riveting Emotion from Start to Finish
The Opéra de Québec opened its 35th season with Werther, a dramatic French opera written by Romantic French composer Jules Massenet at Salle Louis-Fréchette in…
Review: Andrea Bocelli at Bell Center, An Expected Return
Last Sunday, after 20 years of absence, a jam-packed Bell Centre welcomed the return of international star Andrea Bocelli. His passage through Montreal is part…
Canadian Opera Company’s Eugene Onegin Showcases Canadian Talent
The Canadian Opera Company opened its 2018-19 season with a new production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, originally premiered by the Metropolitan Opera. It…
