Report | CMIM Day 1: The Competition Begins
The Montreal International Musical Competition (CMIM) is officially launched! May 25 marked the beginning of the first rounds in the Voice – Aria category. Ten…
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Review | Opéra de Montréal La Bohème does Puccini Proud
Opéra de Montréal closes its 2024-25 season with a celebration of the Puccini anniversary. One cannot go wrong with a production of La Bohème which…
Review | Asitha Tennekoon Interrogates the Immigrant Experience at WMCT
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon’s May 8th recital at the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto explored the idea of Belonging. The first set, Vaughan Williams’ setting of…
Review | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Explores AI
Roy Thomson Hall was filled from the main floor to the choir loft on May 7. The concert program features two mammoth works. The first,…
Review | The Big Roar: Chor Leoni’s Heartwarming Celebration of Choral Music
On May 3, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts was filled with the enthusiastic voices of both young and experienced choral singers. This event,…
Review | London Symphony Orchestra’s Joyous The Excursions of Mr Brouček
The satirical stories of Svatopluk Čech may not be well known to Anglophone readers, yet these Czech tales are classics in their own right. They…
Review | Singing Launches COC Eugene Onegin into Season-Best Status
Canadian director Robert Carsen’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was originally created for the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 and has achieved iconic status in the…
Review | Vancouver Opera Brings Respect and Care to Madama Butterfly
Although acclaimed as one of Giacomo Puccini’s greatest works, Madama Butterfly has received plenty of criticism over the years for its orientalism. Historically, productions have…
Review | COC’s Wozzeck is a Complete Work of Art
It has been a bit of a wait, but South African artist William Kentridge’s production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck has finally had its Canadian Opera…
Review | Pacific Opera Victoria Captures the Timelessness of Rigoletto
On Apr. 23, Pacific Opera Victoria (POV) premiered a new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto set in Victorian England. The universality of Rigoletto, a tale…
