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SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 05:35PMOften it is possible to say of a COC production that the music prevails but in this case the stagecraft proves damnably difficult to edit out.
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:49PMAtom Egoyan was sharing in the acclaim of a hugely successful revival of the Canadian Opera Company production of Wagner’s Die Walküre Saturday night in Toronto
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:36PMMozart’s Don Giovanni is one of the most messed-around-with operas in the standard repertoire. And the COC's latest production is no exception
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 03:42PMThe people at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra have reasoned for years that Mozart is what we need in bitter mid-January
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 01:36PMYes, Virginia, there is an opera called William Tell attached to the overture we love so well
SOURCE: news.nationalpost.com at 12:17PMThe Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio is almost literally a troupe of young singers waiting in the wings, appreciated in principle for their hard work in supporting roles but only occas…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:35PMLike most Catholics and most Victorians, Edward Elgar regarded death as a doorway rather than a terminus
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:30PMNot a night of bel canto. Verismo? Yes, especially after intermission. And Puccini throughout, which of course has everything to do with the indestructability of Madama Butterfly
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:24PMDon Quixote the literary classic runs over 900 pages. Don Quichotte the opera gets you out of the Four Seasons Centre in less than two and a half hours. There is some abridgement
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:25AMBless Queen Bess. A formidable and long-serving monarch, she set high standards of shrewdness and inspired many first-rate fictional treatments
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 09:46PMAlas, poor Hercules. Neither opera nor oratorio, fish nor fowl. Styled a “musical drama” by Handel and his librettist, this English-language work of 1745 is not an easy thing to stage, y…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:24PMIt is well known that Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera ran afoul of the censors on account of its frank depiction of regicide in the Swedish cour
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:09PMIt was not a bad night for the ears
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:26PMWith good sounds emanating from the pit and a podium approach that mixed momentum and lushness, this La Bohème can be approached with cautious optimism
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:29PMWill there be a Britten switcheroo? The Canadian Opera Company flew in Anthony Dean Griffey, a noted American tenor, for the dress rehearsal of Peter Grimes on Wednesday night, with Ben Hepp…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 05:05PMLast season the company announced its net ticket revenue at $10.9-million. In the 2012-13 report this number is $9.9-million
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 08:34PMFrançois Girard and Michael Levine collaborating on a new Parsifal? Considering what these Canadians have done for Wagner in the past, I was expecting people to boo before the curtain went …
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:37AMWhy were people laughing and clapping in the Four Seasons Centre rather than glumly having their expectations thwarted?
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:52AMMutter has blended star appeal throughout her career with dedication to contemporary music.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 02:03PMHard to take seriously as a story but even harder not to like as a score, Il Trovatore is probably the least-performed of Verdi’s mid-period hits.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:30PMShowpiece overload: It is recurring syndrome in National Youth Orchestra tour programs. Not that these concerts (including the Toronto stop on Tuesday, presented by Toronto Summer Music) are…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 04:35PMMy reading is this: When Neef got an offer from a European company, he board promptly panicked and handed him the keys.
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 03:22PMMUNICH — Okay, freunds and fräuleins, shall we call it ge-done? Wagner’s Ring, four operas in six nights, though not in the right order, and delivered by three Brünnhildes, three W…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:56AMThe people at the TSO say it ain’t so. The run this week of the Last Night of the Proms at Roy Thomson Hall did not necessarily represent cheerio for this long-running exercise in high-spi…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 11:01AMStrong start, fab finish. All conductors strive for both, most pray for the latter, which is waht Peter Oundjian got Wednesday in Toronto
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:28PMWhatever epithet might be attached to Einstein on the Beach – wellspring of minimalism, unrepeatable masterpiece of non-linear narrative, avant-garde epic, colossal waste of time – it re…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 12:44PMFor most of us, the year 1905 is much like the years before and after. For Dmitri Shostakovich it presented an opportunity to evoke a revolutionary uprising with elemental power and cinemati…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:01PMChoral programs come in a few flavours, including extroverted and extra-extroverted. The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, with orchestra, gave us an example of the latter on Wednesday in Koerner H…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 01:14PMGrieg’s Piano Concerto is a beautiful piece, almost to the point of having been demoted to pops status. Many thanks to Evgeny Kissin for restoring its classical credentials on Thursday wit…
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) at 10:19AMSci-fi Spectacular: It sounds like an entertaining night in Roy Thomson Hall, and it surely was last week, as the TSO presented an array of themes and excerpts from movies and television sho…
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