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…
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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…
Faith and Folly — Taking Up Serpents, a New American Opera, Bows in Boston
PREVIEW: of a public workshop performance with orchestra of the new opera Taking Up Serpents – libretto by Jerre Dye, score by Kamala Sankaram; presented…
Review: an Uneventful Rigoletto
Opéra de Montréal has launched its 39th season with Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto. The production counts on a mainly Canadian roster of singers lead by Ontario…
30th Carrefour mondial de l’accordéon de Montmagny: a Successful Opening Night Concert
The 30th edition of the Carrefour mondial de l’accordéon de Montmagny has been officially inaugurated. The well established event from the Chaudière Appalaches region of…
