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Babes on the March – A Visit to Victor Herbert’s Toyland, with MasterVoices

By Charles Geyer on 29 April 2017 Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Opera

A REVERIE: on Victor Herbert’s wonderful and terrifying children’s operatic dreamscape, Babes in Toyland, as presented and performed by MasterVoices (formerly the Collegiate Chorale), the Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, and a large cast of principals at Carnegie Hall on April 27; with one additional performance scheduled at the Tilles Center of LIU Post in Brookville, New York on April 29, 2017 at 7 p.m. Dear Diary: On Thursday night, I visited Toyland! Or at least I woke up believing I did. It seemed so real, I’m going to talk to you about it like it really happened. But I guess…

The Babes Are Back! MasterVoices Polishes Up Victor Herbert’s Babes in Toyland for a Glorious Return

By Charles Geyer on 26 April 2017 Contemporary, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Opera

PREVIEW: of the new MasterVoices concert presentation of Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert (Carnegie Hall, New York City, April 27, 2017 at 7 p.m.); and INTERVIEW: with MasterVoices’ musical director Ted Sperling. Long before Sondheim walked on the dark side with Into the Woods, or Disney began issuing its franchise line of tailored fairy-tale musicals, composer Victor Herbert and his Broadway posse had raided the nursery cradle, character-snatching a mother lode of Mother-Goose autochthons to populate the monumental 1903 operetta, Babes in Toyland. They’re all there – Mary Quite Contrary, Tom Tom the Piper’s Son, Little Bopeep, Jack, Jill,…

Cole Foundation : 25 companies – 28 vital grants awarded – $375,000 injected into local multicultural theatre

By Olivier Gentil on 17 March 2017 Arts Industry, Classical, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre

Intercultural Conversations – Conversations interculturelles Encouraging theatrical dialogue between the various cultures in Montreal MONTREAL, March 2017 – The Cole Foundation is pleased to announce the latest grant winners for the Intercultural Conversations-Conversations Interculturelles (IC-CI) programme, initiated to encourage greater understanding of Montreal’s cultural mosaic by having audiences enjoy professional plays that present stories and issues of cultural minorities on stage. Focusing on intercultural and multicultural conversation for their community initiatives, over the past eight years the Cole Foundation has cultivated and strengthened a canon of theatrical work incorporating these themes. A number of companies, both established and independent, have…

Centaur Theatre Unveils 49th Theatre Season

By Newswire on 15 March 2017 Arts Industry, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre

Centaur Theatre Unveils 49th Theatre Season Montreal, March 15, 2017 – A new line-up of plays and much more were revealed at Centaur Theatre’s 49th season launch this afternoon. Outgoing Artistic and Executive Director, Roy Surette, introduced his successor Shaw Festival’s Associate Director, Eda Holmes, at the well-attended gathering of media and theatre practitioners in the Ted T. Katz Family Trust Gallery in the midst of this season biggest snow storm. “As I hand Centaur over to the wonderfully talented Eda Holmes,” said Roy Surette, “I’m reminded of how hands connect us, point us in new directions, welcome strangers and…

More than 40 classics concerts this week in Montreal : February 20-26

By Olivier Gentil on 20 February 2017 Canadian Music, Chamber Music, Classical, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestral, Piano, Quebec Music, Strings, This Week in Montreal, Violin

Tuesday – February 21 1:30PM Longueuil Campus of UdeM, Édifice Port-de-Mer, 101, Place Charles-Lemoyne, Longueuil. 14$. Les matinées d’Opéramania au Campus Longueuil- I Puritani de Bellini. 1-855 790-1245. 7:00PM. Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montreal), 2550 Ontario Est, Montreal. 0-2$. Signer and pianist from Guadeloupe perform urban compositions. 514-872-7882. 7:00PM Music Faculty of the University of Montreal – Serge-Garant Hall (B-484), 200, avenue Vincent-d’Indy. Atelier d’improvisation – Classe de Jean-Marc Bouchard. 7:30PM. Bourgie Concert Hall, 1339, Sherbrooke Ouest Street, Montreal. 30$-100$. Camp Tutti concert bénéfice. 514-486-8727. Wednesday – February 22 7:30PM – OM – INSPIRATION AND HOPE: Inspire by…

Ted Sperling, Photo: Laura Marie Duncan

Maestro Ted Sperling’s Polite Passions – from Broadway to Bach

By Charles Geyer on 7 February 2017 Baroque and Early, Choral, Interviews, Musical Theatre

PROFILE: Interview with Ted Sperling, artistic director of MasterVoices (formerly the Collegiate Chorale); PREVIEW: MasterVoices’ new presentation of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion – Carnegie Hall, February 9, 2017. He’s soft-spoken, genial, elegantly self-possessed. It’s difficult to imagine him indulging in tirades, or hurling withering invective. He’s a nice guy. He’s also brilliant, prodigiously talented, professionally indefatigable, and apparently liked by everyone. Ted Sperling is, in short, a bit of a blessed paradox: probably the most mannerly guest at any dinner party, he is also one of today’s most accomplished, versatile – and, yes, passionate – practitioners of a craft…

Segal Centre to mount musical adaptation of The Hockey Sweater to mark Montréal’s 375th anniversary

By Newswire on 8 December 2016 Musical Theatre, Newswire

MONTRÉAL, Dec. 8, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ – In honour of Montréal’s 375th, Canada’s 150th, and the Segal Centre for Performing Arts’ 10th anniversary, the Segal will continue its mission to bring great Canadian stories to the stage with another brand new musical. The Segal has commissioned and will produce the world premiere of the musical adaptation of Roch Carrier’s beloved story The Hockey Sweater. The production will pay homage to this treasured Quebec story by reinventing the classic tale into a modern musical for the whole family. The Hockey Sweater: A Musical will premiere at the Segal in the fall of…

Paula Berry (Alcina), Opera McGill 2016

Opera McGill at 60

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 December 2016 Education, Interviews, Musical Theatre, Opera

If you peel back the layers of any opera company in Canada, you are likely to find Opera McGill graduates at every level: on the stage, beneath the stage, and behind the stage. Take Opéra de Montréal’s recent production of Don Giovanni, for example. While bass-baritone Gordon Bintner, who played his first Don Giovanni at McGill four years ago, reprised the title role, rising star Jordan De Souza led from the pit. Soprano Emily Dorn (Donna Anna) is an alumna, and the show’s stage director, American David Lefkowich also has connections to the program, having directed The Rake’s Progress at…

Alessandro Costantini as Marc Hall, Photo: Tafari Anthony

Prom Queen: The (Mega) Musical

By Rebecca Anne Clark on 1 September 2016 Interviews, Musical Theatre

The Segal Centre’s latest mega-musical celebrates teen spirit, family, and a Canadian milestone for gay rights. In 2002, 17-year-old Marc Hall invited his boyfriend to his high school prom. His Catholic school in Oshawa, Ontario, declined Hall’s proposed guest on the grounds that homosexuality is incompatible with Catholic teaching. With support from his parents and friends, Hall took the Durham Catholic School Board to court, sparking a controversial case that questioned how the religious freedoms guaranteed in the Canadian Charter should be applied to a school receiving public funding, and about queer rights at a time when same-sex marriage had…

Liz McCartney and Kaitlyn Davidson from the Rodgers Hammerstein’s Cinderella tour, Photo: Carol Rosegg

La Rentrée Culturelle: English Theatre and Musical Theatre

By Kiersten van Vliet on 1 September 2016 La Scena Spotlight, Musical Theatre, Theatre

The Double Hudson Village Theatre, September 7 to 11 Adapted from Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella, The Double is a rare combination of psychological thriller and slapstick comedy. Government clerk Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin meets a man who is identical in appearance but opposite in personality; whereas Golyadkin is a pushover, his doppelgänger is outgoing and daring. Featuring a live original score, this Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning satire is not to be missed. www.villagetheatre.ca My Name is Asher Lev Segal Centre, September 11 to October 2 Based on a novel of the same name by American author and rabbi Chaim Potok, My Name…

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