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Youth 2025-2026: A Season of Programs for the Younger Set

By Heather Weinreb on 4 September 2025 Dance, Montreal, Musical Theatre, Orchestral, Ottawa, Quebec City, Theatre, Toronto, Vocal

Montreal Jeunesses Musicales Jeunesses Musicales’ 2025-26 season is full of original children’s programming. Opéra Bon-Bon, an operatic retelling of the story of Hansel and Gretel, will be performed on Oct. 26. On Nov. 16, Rythmo-Rigolo, an interactive percussion concert, will get children drumming in a variety of ways. Penguin musicians set the stage for this year’s Christmas concert, Le grand bal de Noël, on Dec. 7. On Feb. 8, La forêt des mélomanes takes children on a musical walk through an enchanted forest. On March 22, three musicians and their puppets help children navigate the complex world of friendships—and the…

Anglophone Theatre: The Season Begins

By Nathalie de Han on 3 September 2025 Montreal, Musical Theatre, Ottawa, Theatre, Toronto

Montreal The result of Centaur Theatre’s first Indigenous artist residency, Stone and Bone Spectacular is written by Ange Loft. The play brings a profound yet entertaining perspective to the history of Tioh’tià:ke, also known as Montreal, featuring long-lost lovers and dancing beavers. Rooted in the long years of colonialism and the heritage of the Kanien’kehá:ka people—also known as the Mohawk—the show invites the audience to discover many aspects of Montreal’s heritage. Centaur Theatre, Oct. 15-26 www.centaurtheatre.com Four very different women meet in a department store. They begin to joke about their hot flashes, memory lapses, mood swings, wrinkles and sugar…

Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra

Calgary Philharmonic 2025/26 Season Kicks Off Sept 5

By Newswire on 14 August 2025 Classical, Classical Music, Contemporary, Film, Movie soundtrack music, Multimedia, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Opera, Piano, Popular Music, Strings, Theatre, Violin, West

Calgary AB (August 14, 2025) — World-renowned stars, epic classics, thrilling collaborations, rockin’ pops, family fun, blockbuster movies, and more — the Calgary Phil heads into its 70th anniversary season with concerts for all ages and tastes. Celebrating seven decades as Calgary’s Orchestra, the Calgary Phil is more committed than ever to making orchestral music accessible to everyone. September alone demonstrates the exciting variety that audiences can expect throughout the season. We officially get things cooking on September 5 at The Big Four Roadhouse for the Canadian premiere of SYNTHONY: EDM Meets Orchestra, which sees the Calgary Phil, along with…

John Riddle (L) as George and Marina Pires as Dot (far R) with the Ensemble in the 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Production of Sunday in the Park with George. Photo by Brent DeLanoy/The Glimmerglass Festival.

Glimmerglass Celebrates 50 Years with a Season in Red!

By Charles Geyer on 29 July 2025 Classical Music, Musical Theatre, Opera

Yes, Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York has reached its half-century mark. What began in 1975 as a plucky community-based initiative to mount a production of La bohème in a high school auditorium has effloresced in the course of five decades into one of North America’s premier summer opera repertory companies. And no, the referenced “Season in Red” emphatically does not denote financial deficit. In fact, the company’s latest fundraising campaign has handily attained its goal of $5,000,000, and is reportedly on course to reach its next target of $7,500,000. Red Alert Rather, the red in question is “Conklin Red”…

Ashanti J’Aria (Becky), Rachel Drance (Jenna), and Sarah Cantuba (Dawn) in the Arts Club's Waitress. Photo: Moonrider Productions

Review | Strong casting is the secret ingredient in the Arts Club’s Waitress

By Kaitlyn Chan on 8 July 2025 Concert Reviews, Musical Theatre, Theatre, Vancouver, Vocal, West

Based on the motion picture by Adrienne Shelly, Sara Bareilles’s Waitress is one of the most popular musicals composed in recent years. It premiered on Broadway in April 2016—making history as the first Broadway show with an all-female production team—and garnered such success that international and regional productions are still frequently staged. Since June 12, Vancouver’s Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage has been transformed into Joe’s Diner as the Arts Club Theatre Company presents this beloved musical. Having seen outstanding performances by the Arts Club before, I attended their production of Waitress with high expectations (seen July 5). I was not…

Brenna McFarland and cast in Opera 5's Elegies. Photo: Emily Ding Photography

Review | A Very New York Elegies at Toronto Opera Festival

By John Gilks on 16 June 2025 Art Song, Concert Reviews, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Elegies: A Song Cycle, by William Finn, is a series of songs in a musical theatre idiom dealing with bereavement and mourning. It’s a 2003 piece and firmly rooted in the trauma of the AIDS epidemic and 9/11. It’s very New York. Opera 5’s production (seen June 15) at Factory Theatre is fully staged (by Jessica Derventzis) and performed by artists from Opera 5’s Portfolio Artist Internship Program who mostly hail from McGill University. The extensive musical theatre training they have received is very evident in both their command of the required vocal style and their easy and energetic movement…

Jeunesses Musicales Canada launches their 2025-2026 season

By Newswire on 30 May 2025 Classical Music, Montreal, Musical Theatre, Newswire

Montreal, May 29, 2025 — Jeunesses Musicales Canada (JMC) is proud to unveil its 76th season in Joseph-Rouleau Hall at André-Bourbeau’s JMC House. Beginning this October, JMC invites the public to discover 13 concerts for all ages as part of its Happy Hour Concert and Cushion Concert series. “Our 76th season sets the stage for how we define ‘classical music.’ This year, our artist residency goes to jazz saxophonist Benjamin Deschamps. At Joseph-Rouleau Hall, we’re hosting a variety of guest concerts — Koperkus for little ones, and CC Duo with their concert, Lyrique, for older audiences. Touring artists from our JMC Concerts will also…

OCM & JMC's Opéra-bonbon: L’aventure gourmande d’Hansel et Gretel (2022). Photo: Brent Calis

Review | OCM — Jeunesses Musicales Opéra-bonbon: A Sweet Success!

By Adrian Rodriguez on 7 April 2025 Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal, Musical Theatre, Orchestral, Theatre, Vocal

On Apr. 6, Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM) and Jeunesses Musicales Canada (JMC) delivered a delectable treat with Opéra-bonbon: L’aventure gourmande d’Hansel et Gretel, a 60-minute operatic initiation for young audiences that managed to entertain, educate, and enchant in equal measure. Adapted and narrated in French, the show reimagines the iconic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, enriched with musical additions, including selections from Humperdinck’s own Hänsel und Gretel, as well as works by Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, and Bizet. Pascal Blanchet’s adaptation is a highlight: brisk, witty, and perfectly paced to keep even the youngest minds engaged from start to…

Photos: J. L. Tarrant; Valérie Remise; Nini Krysztofiak

Festival TransAmériques: Hiroshima mon amour, the opera

By Nathalie de Han on 2 April 2025 Musical Theatre, Opera, Theatre

The 1959 film, Hiroshima mon amour depicts the brief encounter between a French actress and a former Japanese soldier, whose family perished under the bombs. Writer Marguerite Duras and director Alain Renais invoked love, death, war and reminiscence in what is considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. In her introduction to the published screenplay, Duras wrote that it was an allegory, the material of an opera. It is this idea that Australian composer and writer Rósa Lind grasped onto for her five-act, one hour and twenty minute opera written for chamber ensemble. Christian Lapointe, general…

NTS unveils the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Award recipients

By Newswire on 18 March 2025 Arts Industry, Dance, Film, Montreal, Multimedia, Music Competition, Musical Theatre, Newswire, Theatre, Toronto

ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart: Recipients of the 2025 Gascon-Thomas Awards from the National Theatre School of Canada Montreal, March 18, 2025 – The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS) is proud to announce the recipients of the 32nd edition of the Gascon-Thomas Awards. This prestigious event recognizes outstanding artists who have made a lasting impact on the performing arts landscape in Canada and beyond. This year, NTS is celebrating two major figures in theatre and multidisciplinary arts: ahdri zhina mandiela and Brigitte Poupart. ahdri zhina mandiela, a pivotal figure in Canada’s artistic landscape, is the recipient of the…

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