~ Sold-out evening featured surprise appearance by Renée Fleming; presentations by Elīna Garanča, Kiri Te Kanawa and Joseph Volpe ~ New York, NY (April 10,…
Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company has brought together an all-Canadian cast, led by renowned Canadian baritone Russell Braun in the title role, for its…
2017-18 Marks Innovative Season of Firsts for Opera Philadelphia, from Fall’s Inaugural O17 Festival – Highlighted by Global Partnerships and Three World Premieres – to…
CANADA Unveil of the 2017-2018 program of the Metropolitan Opera on New York : Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead two operas. [New York Times] [Le Devoir] Interview with…
CANADA The Regroupement des artisans de la musique will present on Wednesday an action plan to try to be more remunerate for their music, especially…
The composer of the shortest opera, Peter Reynolds, died on October 11 at his home in Cardiff, United Kingdom. The Welsh composer created Sands of…
Poet. Trailblazer. Canadian luminary. These descriptors apply as much to Margaret Atwood as they do to the subject of her first libretto, E. Pauline Johnson.…
A FEW days after Michael Kaiser’s arrival as executive director in 1998, he and I had breakfast at the Waldorf Hotel. “This is a group…
Royal Opera House Arts Council of England In his new book, serialised over three days in ‘The Telegraph’, Norman Lebrecht lifts the lid…
Salzburg teaches the French a lesson Berlioz’s Les Troyens in Salzburg by Norman Lebrecht / August 3, 2000 BEFORE we all head off for Britain’s…
