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Toronto Symphony Orchestra Appoints Nicholas Sharma as RBC Resident Conductor & Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor

By Newswire on 9 May 2025 Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno are pleased to announce the appointment of conductor Nicholas Sharma as the TSO’s next RBC Resident Conductor and conductor of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra (TSYO), beginning in the 2025/26 season. Sharma was selected following a national search and competitive audition process. He succeeds Trevor Wilson, who has worked with the TSO and TSYO since 2022. Sharma will serve in this dual role for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons. “Nicholas brings a beautiful naturalness to his conducting—musical, confident, and calm,” says Music Director Gustavo Gimeno. “He has an ease and clarity on the podium that immediately resonates with musicians, along with…

Metcalf Foundation Announces Five Winners for 2025 Johannas

By Newswire on 5 May 2025 Arts Industry, Classical Music, Music Competition, Newswire, Toronto

METCALF FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES FIVE WINNERS OF THE 2025 JOHANNA METCALF PERFORMING ARTS PRIZES A TOTAL VALUE OF $195,000 Toronto, ON (May 5, 2025) – The Metcalf Foundation is pleased to announce the five winners and their protégés for the 2025 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes / Les Prix Johanna-Metcalf des Arts de la scène (Johannas), with a total value of $195,000 in prizes. Each winner received a prize of $25,000, announced at a ceremony on May 5, 2025, at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. The Johannas celebrate artists in Ontario who have made a recognized impact on their fields and the public, while…

(l-r) Andrii Kymach (Eugene Onegin) and Dimitry Ivashchenko (Gremin) in Canadian Opera Company’s Eugene Onegin. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | Singing Launches COC Eugene Onegin into Season-Best Status

By Gianmarco Segato on 5 May 2025 Concert Reviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

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 intervening years. The Canadian Opera Company eventually acquired the production which it first presented in 2018. A model of perfectly-judged austerity, it once again lives up to its vaunted status in its latest revival (seen May 2). What takes this iteration to the next level is the casting. The COC has conjured up the magic that can result when superb singers are ideally matched to their roles. As Carsen states in his program notes, “When…

Ambur Braid (Marie) and Matthew Cairns (the Drum-Major) in the Canadian Opera Company’s Wozzeck. Photo: Michael Cooper

Review | COC’s Wozzeck is a Complete Work of Art

By Gianmarco Segato on 28 April 2025 Concert Reviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

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 Company debut following outings at fellow co-producing companies, the Salzburg Festival (premiere, 2017), Metropolitan Opera and Opera Australia (both 2019). Its seamless amalgam of fine art, video, stagecraft, music and drama results in one of the most convincing artist-driven concepts to have graced Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre stage (seen Apr. 27th). Kentridge has taken World War I as his primary inspiration. Berg began to write the opera in 1914, just before the war’s outbreak, completing…

Artists of Atelier Ballet in Opera Atelier's production of Charpentier's David and Jonathan. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Review | Opera Atelier Showcases French Baroque Spectacle in David and Jonathan

By Gianmarco Segato on 11 April 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Dance, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Opera Atelier celebrates its 40th anniversary season with a work that surely must be considered at the core of its four-decade mission. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s David and Jonathan (1688) exemplifies the 17th-century French tragédie en musique, an opera based on a tragic subject from mythology, or in this case, the bible. Told in five acts plus prologue, David and Jonathan includes divertissements for a ballet troupe interspersed with all manner of singing, not only for a large number of named soloists, but also, an eight-member onstage ensemble, as well as a full off-stage chorus. In other words, the type of spectacle…

Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 2025/26 Season: A Celebration of Canadian Artistry

By Newswire on 10 April 2025 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto, Vocal

Toronto, April 10, 2025 — The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (TMChoir) proudly announces its 2025/26 season — an ambitious, blockbuster year of iconic masterworks, monumental collaborations, and new partnerships with Canadian artists. With a season that brings together the full force of some of Canada’s top choral and orchestral talent, including a continued partnership with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, TMChoir continues to uphold its reputation as a leader in shaping the future of choral music. From Bach to Beethoven, from Brahms to Whitacre, this year’s programming showcases the kind of grand-scale, emotionally charged repertoire that TMChoir delivers with unmistakable made-in-Canada excellence. This…

Midori Marsh. Photo: Sam Gaetz.

Review | Midori Marsh Travels Through Generations of Sisterhood

By John Gilks on 4 April 2025 Art Song, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Opera, Piano, Toronto, Vocal

The Women’s Musical Club of Toronto’s Music in the Afternoon series continued at Walter Hall on April 3rd with a song recital by soprano Midori Marsh and pianist Frances Armstrong. The theme was “sisters,” with each set designed to explore a particular aspect of sisterhood. The first set dealt with religious sisterhood. It began with the duet, Bone Jesu, fons amoris, by the Benedictine nun Chiara Margarita Cozzollani for which Midori was joined by mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington. It’s a very lovely piece which sounds more polyphonic than two voices should. The blend was excellent too, with just the right difference…

Music TORONTO announces 2025-26 Season

By Newswire on 3 April 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Toronto

TORONTO (April 3, 2025) Roman Borys, Artistic and Executive Director announced details of Music TORONTO’s 2025-26 Season today. The season programming fulfills Music TORONTO’s commitment to three pillars – concerts, artistic development, and community engagement and education. “In addition to presenting great concerts featuring celebrated musicians and early career artists who are capturing the world’s attention, Music TORONTO’s investment in artist and audience development initiatives ensures that chamber music remains essential within the performing arts ecology of our very culturally diverse city,” said Roman Borys, Artistic and Executive Director. New this season, Music TORONTO launches the MUSE series (music unveiled,…

Upcoming Concerts

By La Scena Musicale Team on 3 April 2025 Classical Music, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vancouver, West

Highlights of upcoming Canadian concerts selected by Madeline Boldt, Kaitlyn Chan, and Gianmarco Segato. Montreal Bourgie Hall Pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin returns to Bourgie Hall on April 12 to play works by Debussy, Albéniz, Poulenc, and Chopin. This concert concludes with the four Scherzos by Chopin, one of Richard-Hamelin’s favourite composers. In the following week, Les Idées heureuses performs their 17th Passion Concert. Since 2023, this project, established by Geneviève Soly, explores Christoph Graupner’s Passiontide cantatas, which were composed for Good Friday. Les Idées heureuses welcomes the same collaborators who have participated in this complete work since 2023 to perform four…

Samuel Mariño. Photo: Diana Gomez

Samuel Mariño: From Prejudice To Pride

By Adrian Rodriguez on 31 March 2025 Classical Music, Interviews, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Maricón! Parchita!! Mamita!!! (an alluvium of homophobic and demeaning insults)—these were the sort of taunts Samuel Mariño endured daily in school while growing up in Venezuela. His unusually high voice made him a target of constant ridicule. As a 14-year-old, desperate to fit in, Mariño visited the ENT, tried vocal therapy, and even considered surgery to lower his larynx. Each failed attempt to change his voice felt like another rejection of who he was. At the end of his rope, a laryngologist asked him a question that shattered his despair: “Why don’t you sing soprano?” The suggestion sparked a joyful…

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