The Song of Names Brings Music to Life
Inevitably a conveyor of meaning in cinema at some level, music sometimes moves to the foreground of a film while retaining its wonted role as…
Browsing: Scena Arts
In Search of the “Phantom of the Opera”: Between Fiction and Reality
The story of The Phantom of the Opera as related in Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel intertwines proven facts and popular myths with the author’s inventions.…
A Truly Operatic “Phantom of the Opera”
Baritenor. This is the intriguing if ambiguous word Hugo Laporte uses to describe the fach of the title role of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, a French-language production…
Editorial
Download PDFLa Scena Musicale’s Dec/Jan issue returns to a bilingual format. The cover features Hugo Laporte and Anne-Marine Suire in the upcoming production of The…
Nathalie Bondil: The Art of the Curator and Entrepreneur
It is unlikely that the executive director and chief curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts would look up “art” in the Oxford English…
Luc Courchesne on the rise of digital arts: A pioneer received the highest visual arts award
Luc Courchesne has always cultivated an inspired and avant-garde artistic approach. Emeritus professor at the Université de Montréal, member of the Royal Canadian Academy of…
Stéphane Marceau: painter and sculptor
He takes great care so that his works are “the purest exaltation of life, which is reflected in an organic way and intimately linked to…
Good Theatre at the Right Price
Don’t think for a minute that theatre tickets are only for the well-heeled. Here are but a few of the best deals around this season.…
The Bluestocking Blues
In 2019, Canadian women take the right to attend university for granted. Yet not so long ago our universities were for men only. McGill University…
Alice Books inspire play on Love and Grief
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There have become cultural touchstones. Countless films have been made on the Alice…
