Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival: A Fresh, Canadian Triptych
Puccini’s Il trittico (The Triptych) conjures up the image of three distinct tapestries, hung side by side. In their second annual Toronto Opera Festival, Opera…
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Newswire | Opera 5 Announces Program for Second Toronto Opera Festival
TORONTO, ON- Today Opera 5 announces their 2026 season, featuring the return of the Toronto Opera Festival after a highly successful inaugural festival last June this time…
Review | Singing Launches COC Eugene Onegin into Season-Best Status
Canadian director Robert Carsen’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was originally created for the Metropolitan Opera in 1997 and has achieved iconic status in the…
Review | COC’s Wozzeck is a Complete Work of Art
It has been a bit of a wait, but South African artist William Kentridge’s production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck has finally had its Canadian Opera…
Review | Stellar performances ignite Opera 5 woo-woo The Turn of the Screw
Toronto’s Opera 5 opened a very witchy, woo-woo production of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw on June 12, a welcome return for one of…
Highlights | Canadians in Berlin; Edmonton Opera 24-25; Cuts at Paris Opera
Our weekly Highlights: Canadian singers at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 24-25; Edmonton Opera’s 24-25 casting; Funding cuts in Paris and Cardiff
Concert Review | TSO’s 2023 Messiah: A Spiritually Uplifting Experience
Sitting in the audience at the TSO Messiah this past Sunday, I kept thinking how lucky I was to witness another performance of Messiah in the familiar Roy Thomson Hall.
Newswire | Toronto Symphony Orchestra Announces 2023/24 Season — A Bold New Beginning in Year 101
Toronto, March 1, 2023 – Today, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) announces its highly anticipated 2023/24 season, featuring a wide variety of musical experiences that…
Review | Honens Piano Competition 2022 Report No. 3: Finals Begin
MOZART AND SCHUBERT LEAD OFF THE HONENS FINALS IN CALGARY: ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS SUPERBLY There were ten semi-finalists and then three finalists at the Honens…
CD Review | Found Frozen: Songs by Jeffrey Ryan (Centrediscs, 2022)
Found Frozen: Songs by Jeffrey Ryan Danika Lorèn, soprano; Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano; Dion Mazerolle, baritone; Steven Philcox, piano Centrediscs, 2022 The Canadian label Centrediscs specializes…
