Region - my/maSCENA

Browsing: Region

Steven Osborne. Photo: Ben Ealovega

Review | Steven Osborne Delivers Sturm und Drang at the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club

By Jan Krejcar on 4 March 2026 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Piano

Over every mountain-top Lies peace, In every tree-top You scarcely feel A breath of wind; The little birds are hushed in the wood. Wait, soon you too Will be at peace. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Book of Lieder, trans. Richard Stokes (London: Faber, 2005). The great German polymath, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote these lines, The Wanderer’s Nightsong in 1776. One of his most famous poems, it masterfully delivers a feeling of all-enveloping serenity, not even broken by birdsong. Over 50 years later, in 1828 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) wrote his last sonata (Bb major, D. 960) months before his…

Newswire | Rémi Bolduc Launches New Album at LE STUDIO TD

By Newswire on 27 February 2026 Jazz, Montreal, Newswire

Montréal, Monday, February 2nd — Renowned jazz saxophonist Rémi Bolduc announces the release of his new and twelfth album on Thursday, April 9, titled Le Bolduc Groove Quintet. This highly anticipated release marks a new milestone in the career of one of the most influential figures on the Canadian jazz scene. To celebrate the occasion, an album launch concert will take place the same day at LE STUDIO TD, in the heart of Montréal’s Quartier des spectacles. Rémi Bolduc will be joined by Chantel de Villiers on tenor saxophone and vocals, Nick Semenykhin on guitar, Ira Coleman on double bass, and Rich Irwin on drums. Tickets are available at the regular price of $24, and $15 for students and seniors aged 65…

Photo: Bruce Zinger

Newswire | Opera Atelier Announces 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 25 February 2026 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Toronto, ON — Opera Atelier founding Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski, C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, C.M., today announce the company’s 2026/27 Season, A Season of Heroes. The season kicks off in the glorious acoustic of Toronto’s Koerner Hall with the company’s fully staged Canadian premiere of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s extraordinary masterpiece, The Descent of Orpheus on October 22-25, 2026. The opera is based on Ovid’s myth of Orpheus, who uses his gift of music to gain entry to the underworld and to return his lover Eurydice to the land of the living. Unlike other performance versions of this myth, Charpentier’s…

Newswire | Soundstreams Announces 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 25 February 2026 Choral, Classical Music, Contemporary, Newswire, Toronto

February 23, 2026 (TORONTO, ON)—Lawrence Cherney, Founding Artistic Director of Soundstreams, has announced the company’s 44th season, kicking off this October with a major celebration of Steve Reich, performed by some of the world’s greatest interpreters of his music. Sir James MacMillan returns to Soundstreams with his new oratorio Angels Unawares, next February. Praise Song for Oceania will feature artists and works connected by the Pacific Ocean, curated by Soundstreams New Voices Mentorship Program winner Jesse Plessis, and next June’s CELLO X 8, presented in collaboration with Luminato and VEMU Estonian Museum Canada, will invite eight virtuoso cellists from Canada…

NACO conductor Alexander Shelley in performance. Photo: Curtis Perry.

Newswire | Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Announces 100th Tour

By Newswire on 24 February 2026 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Ottawa

February 24, 2026 – OTTAWA (Canada) – Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) is thrilled to announce its 100th tour since its founding in 1969. This spring, the Orchestra, led by Music Director Alexander Shelley, will visit Canada’s East Coast, with performances in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Joining NACO and Shelley as a special guest throughout the tour is acclaimed Wolastoqiyik composer and singer-songwriter Jeremy Dutcher—a two-time Polaris Music Prize winner and the 2025 recipient of the NAC Award at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards. NACO’s collaboration with Dutcher, a member of the Tobique First Nation in northern New Brunswick, will feature a…

TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno. Photo: Allan Cabral/Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Newswire | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Announces 2026-27 Season

By Newswire on 19 February 2026 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

From Yuja Wang’s season-opening return to Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand” and a new piano concerto written and conducted by Joe Hisaishi, the 2026-27 season gathers landmark performances across Classical, Pops, film, and youth programming. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) shares the unparalleled power of live music with the city in its 2026/27 season. Designed by Music Director Gustavo Gimeno, the expansive lineup spans classical blockbusters and contemporary creations, hits from the soundtracks of our lives, cinematic rediscoveries, and orchestral adventures for youth and families. Among the highlights are an electric season-opening concert with internationally renowned pianist Yuja Wang; the completion of a two-year…

Newswire | An Exciting World Premiere at the Centre of Canadian Opera Company’s 2026-2027 Season

By Newswire on 18 February 2026 Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Toronto

Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company’s newly unveiled 2026/2027 season will feature a bold Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, as well as an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Canadian Opera Company Theatre. The season’s full lineup includes: La Traviata, Verdi’s timeless tale of love and heartbreak; Così fan tutte, Mozart’s comic test of fidelity and desire; two new productions: The Turn of the Screw, Britten’s operatic adaptation of the chilling novella, and Richard Strauss’ tragicomedy Ariadne aux Naxos; Donizetti’s ever-charming The Elixir of Love; and the highly anticipated world premiere of Empire of…

Budapest Festival Orchestra performing Mahler 3. Photo: Budapest Festival Orchestra/Róbert Zentai

Review | Budapest Festival Orchestra & Iván Fischer’s Triumphant Mahler 3 in Toronto

By David Fanning on 17 February 2026 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Orchestral, Toronto, Vocal

Mahler’s longest, most philosophically ambitious, and second most lavishly scored symphony, in a less than full-sized hall, could so easily have proved too much of a good thing. Not a bit of it. Among several special—if not unique—features, the Budapest Festival Orchestra is known for its quality of listening: listening to each other and listening to the music. Accordingly, under Iván Fischer’s economical, yet never less than whole-hearted direction, they never pushed sonic thrills across the physical pain barrier or into mere vulgarity. Textures were transparent, the balance against orchestral and vocal solos optimally discreet. The notion that Mahler expanded…

Newswire | BISQFest Announces 2026 Lineup

By Newswire on 17 February 2026 Arts Industry, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Strings, West

BANFF, AB, FEBRUARY 13, 2026 — Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is thrilled to announce the full lineup for the Banff International String Quartet Festival (BISQFest) 2026, taking place September 3–6, 2026, in Banff, Alberta. Occurring in the years between the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), BISQFest has immersed chamber music lovers in a long weekend of intimate performances and picturesque mountain views on Banff Centre campus since 2017. Much like the world-renowned Competition, which named Cincinnati’s Poiesis Quartet as their reigning winners in 2025, the 2026 edition of BISQFest champions the best in chamber music by celebrating cherished contemporary performers,…

Jonathan Woody with Tafelmusik. Photo: Dahlia Katz

Newswire | Tafelmusik Unveils its 2026/27 Season

By Newswire on 13 February 2026 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, Ontario (February 11, 2026) —Tafelmusik today announced its 2026/27 concert season, a boldly curated year that balances iconic masterworks with rediscovered voices, interdisciplinary storytelling, and vibrant new perspectives, performed on period instruments with the ensemble’s signature energy, precision, and expressive depth. Subscription packages are now available at tafelmusik.org. New this season, Tafelmusik welcomes audiences into a year shaped by joy, reflection, and surprise. Acclaimed British violinist Rachel Podger has extended her tenure as Principal Guest Director for an additional three years, through to the end of its landmark 50th anniversary season. In 2026/27, Podger leads two major programs, Bach’s…