Bergen International Festival: Grieg from the heartland
Before and after. Who now does not think in these terms? Many music lovers, for obvious reasons, feel nostalgia for the former and disdain for…
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Concert Review: Stradivarius BaROCK Symphonique
Orchestre symphonique de Longueuil Alexandre Da Costa, violin and conductor; Bruno Pelletier and La Bronze, guest soloists Théâtre Plaza de Montréal March 12, 2021 …
Yannick, OM make a live-audience comeback
Might catch on, this idea of attending concerts in person. Such is my prediction after Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his Orchestre Métropolitain performed in the Maison…
Nagano makes a welcome comeback
Not many natives of California choose to winter in Canada, particularly when the sojourn involves 14 days of quarantine. Kent Nagano, recently named conductor emeritus…
As One is a surprisingly subtle success
As One might not be the only opera written for two vocal manifestations of the same character, but there cannot be many others. The risk involved…
For the MSO opener, a masked ball
Not your usual opening night. Small crowd. No mingling. No buzz. Except insofar as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Labadie proved itself equal on…
Metropolitan Opera At-Home Gala highlights
“We’re going low-tech,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb said in an introduction to the company’s At-Home Gala broadcast on the internet on Saturday afternoon…
Toronto Operetta Theatre’s H.M.S. Pinafore a Boatload of Fun
Toronto, March 5, 2020 — Premiered in 1878, H.M.S. Pinafore remains one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most successful and well-loved operettas. Set on board the…
Big-time Bruckner from MSO under Gergiev
Valery Gergiev as the next music director of the MSO? Hardly likely, given the famous Russian’s multiple commitments and the formidable commute between St. Petersburg…
Jacqueline du Pré opera gets it half right
Classical music has its icons, including Jacqueline du Pré, the brilliant British cellist who contracted multiple sclerosis at the youthful height of her powers and…
