Review | Li Delun Music Foundation Celebrates East-Meets-West
With the new year comes a host of celebrations, and the Li Delun Music Foundation’s East-Meets-West New Year’s Concert is no exception. An impressive and…
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Review | Holiday Delights in Milan and Piacenza: Lady Macbeth, Sleeping Beauty, Stiffelio
For many, Germany is the European country that comes to mind when it comes to Christmas, with its festive markets and overall celebratory ambiance. However,…
Review | The Czardas Princess kicks up her heels for Toronto Operetta Theatre
Toronto Operetta Theatre’s annual holiday production offers local audiences the all-too-rare chance to experience golden age operetta. This delightful corner of the lyric repertoire, full…
Review | A Cozy and Unconventional Christmas with Chor Leoni
Dec. 18 marked the opening night of Chor Leoni’s annual Christmas concert. Lit with bright red, blue and magenta hues, the inside of St. Andrew’s-Wesley…
Review | A Charlie Brown Christmas at Salle Bourgie
We know “Christmas Time is Here” in Montreal when the Taurey Butler Trio comes back to play their annual Charlie Brown Christmas concert at Salle…
Review | Gerald Finley and Anthony León Shine in TSO Messiah
There are as many versions of Handel’s oratorio, Messiah, as there are performances, which in Canada, are almost too many to count over the holiday…
Review | Early Music Vancouver’s Messiah: A Satisfying First Encounter
At this time of the year, it’s expected that at least one choir and orchestra will perform Handel’s Messiah in most Canadian cities. The oratorio…
Review | Die Fledermaus in Zürich: Strauss for an Age of Amnesia
Opernhaus Zürich’s Die Fledermaus (seen Dec. 7) opens with a prelude in the form of a short film. It’s a party: young, good-looking people, drinks in hand,…
Review | Donizetti in Bergamo: Where Rarities Steal the Spotlight
Since 1981, the city of Bergamo, one hour northeast of Milan, and the birthplace of Gaetano Donizetti, has hosted Donizetti Opera, a festival of the…
Review | Jonas Kaufmann Still Brings Down the House in Paris Tosca
Puccini’s Tosca is an opera built on irresistible contradictions: a thriller wrapped in velvet, a story of political terror carried on some of the most seductive melodic…
