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COC. Faust
Kyle Ketelsen as Méphistophélès in the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Faust, 2024. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | COC’s Faust a Devilishly Dazzling New Production

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By on Concert Reviews, Opera, Toronto

Few legendary figures have inspired more literary, cinematic, ballet and musical works than Faust. Numerous symphonic and operatic pieces have been written by famous composers such as Berlioz, Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann, Liszt, Mahler and more. The most famous opera, Faust, was written by Charles Gounod, which is also touted to be the composer’s best operatic work. The Canadian Opera Company has a brand new production that is a pleasure to the eyes and ears. The aging Faust is disillusioned with life and is about the end it with poison. Blaming God for his misery, he sarcastically appeals to Satan for…

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Opera 5
Elizabeth Polese as the Governess in Opera 5's The Turn of the Screw, 2024

Opera 5 Announces Their 2024-25 Season and First Ever Toronto Opera Festival

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By on Newswire, Opera, Toronto

TORONTO, ON – Today Opera 5 announces our 2024/2025 season, including the launch of the brand new Toronto Opera Festival. This festival in June 2025 features a series of performances, including the world premiere of Come Closer by Canadian Composer Ryan Trew with a libretto by Opera 5 General Director Rachel Krehm, Opera 5’s first production of musical theatre with performances of Elegies: A Song Cycle by William Finn, and a Gala Performance featuring our Portfolio Artist Interns. Opera 5’s Toronto Opera Festival is Toronto’s first-ever festival of opera and musical theatre celebrating Canadian creation and performers, while creating a…

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Nabucco
A scene from the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Nabucco, 2024. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | Nabucco makes a triumphant, belated COC debut

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By on Concert Reviews, Toronto

The Canadian Opera Company opens its 2024-25 season with Nabucco. It is hard to believe that the opera that launched Giuseppe Verdi’s career has never been staged by the COC in its 74-year history. A Lyric Opera of Chicago production, Nabucco is finally making a long-overdue premiere in Toronto. Nabucco, the tyrannical king of Babylon, is about to invade Judah. Although the Israelites have taken Nabucco’s daughter Fenena hostage, they lose their bargaining chip when she is freed by her captor Ismaele, who is in love with her. The enraged Nabucco goes on a rampage, destroys the Israelites’ temple and…

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Capuçon
Renaud Capuçon. Photo: Simon Fowler

Review | Renaud Capuçon plays splendid Mozart with Gimeno & the TSO

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By on Classical Music, Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Region, Toronto

French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been a favourite of mine for some years now – especially in the music of Mozart – but this was the first time I had seen and heard him in a live concert. I was not disappointed and neither was the capacity audience at George Weston Recital Hall in North York. With Gustavo Gimeno leading the TSO Capuçon gave us good old-fashioned Mozart with impeccable technique and beautiful tone. Capuçon first played with the TSO way back in 2008 but that was fairly early in his career. He has since gone on to build an…

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Toronto Consort: Ensemble Members & Scholars
Toronto Consort: Ensemble Members & Scholars. Photo: Aleksandar Antonijevic

Toronto Consort Appoints Dame Emma Kirkby as First-Ever Honorary Patron and Daniel Taylor O.C. as new Artistic and General Director

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By on Baroque and Early, Newswire, Toronto

Toronto, ON, September 25, 2024 – Heather Turnbull, President of the Board, The Toronto Consort, today announced the appointment of Daniel Taylor, O.C. as the company’s new General and Artistic Director, Dame Emma Kirkby as the Consort’s first-ever Honorary Patron, and the launch of the Consort’s 2024-2025 Season: BLESSED LIGHT – BLESSED ECHO. The Consort’s five-concert season kicks off on October 11. Visit TorontoConsort.org for more details. “This is an extraordinary moment in the history of The Toronto Consort,” said Turnbull. “Daniel Taylor is a beloved Canadian singer, a leading figure in the field of opera and early music, and noted…

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Darius Jones (Photo: Kholood Eid)

Jazz in Ontario: Guelph, Toronto & Beyond

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By on La Scena Online, Region, Scena Jazz, Toronto
September 2024

GUELPH AT THE CROSSROADS This year, the Guelph Jazz Festival organization is in transition, after its former director, Scott Thomson, was appointed artistic and general director of FIMAV (the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville) last year. The Guelph festival’s Interim Artistic Director Karen Ng and Interim General Manager Alex Ricci and their team have nevertheless assembled a promising lineup featuring a range of creative groups from Ontario, Quebec and the U.S. They’ve retained a strong focus on improvised music, in keeping with the Guelph Jazz Festival’s distinctive flavour, while also adding some world and electronic musics in the…

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14th Glenn Gould Prize Laureate Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, and Glenn Gould Protégé Prize winners Andrés David Ascanio Abreu (R) and Enluis Montes Olivar (L) pose with their awards following the presentation at Carnegie Hall on August 2, 2024. Photo Credit: Fadi Kheir

Glenn Gould Foundation Presents the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel

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By on La Scena Online, Newswire, Toronto

The Glenn Gould Foundation proudly presented the 14th Glenn Gould Prize to Maestro Gustavo Dudamel during a special ceremony at Carnegie Hall on August 2, 2024.

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St-Gelais
Soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais at Toronto Summer Music. Photo: Lucky Tang

Review | Elisabeth St-Gelais at Toronto Summer Music

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By on Concert Reviews, La Scena Online, Toronto, Vocal

Innu soprano Elisabeth St-Gelais made her Toronto Summer Music debut on July 30 in recital with pianist Louise Pelletier. They presented a classic song program primarily consisting of 19th and early 20th-century German Lieder and French mélodies. Engagingly performed, the evening also laid bare the challenges and pitfalls of the recital format for a singer still in the early stages of her career. The opening set consisted of Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder, that strange amalgam of German song and translated Hungarian folk texts celebrating “Gypsy” or Romani life. The set’s glory is found in Brahms’ deliberate pointing of words against insistent csárdás…

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