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* Notes * Livermore Valley Opera's Don Giovanni (Ovation pictured, photograph by author) opened last night at the Bankhead Theater. The opera is cast well and the production is very committed. Robert Herriot's staging used video...Sunday, March 2, 2025 from operaramblings
Atom Egoyan’s 2023 film Seven Veils filmed at the Canadian Opera Company and featuring members of the cast of that season’s run of Strauss’ Salome is getting a theatrical release on March 7th. I can’t find exact...Sunday, March 2, 2025 from operaramblings
Toronto Summer Music has announced the line up for 2025; the last festival with Jonathan Crow in the driving seat. As ever there’s lots to like. There are two operas in concert. The big opening night gig is a concert …...Saturday, March 1, 2025 from operaramblings
Toronto Operetta Theatre opened the concluding show of their 2024/25 season at the Jane Mallett Theatre on Friday evening. It’s Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers directed and choreographed by Guillermo Silva-Marin. ...Saturday, March 1, 2025 from operatraveller
Puccini – La bohème Mimì – Hanna HusáhrRodolfo – Bror Magnus TødenesMarcello – Jeremy CarpenterMusetta – Vivianne HolmbergSchaunard – Ola EliassonColline – John Erik ElebyBenoît – Niklas Björling RygertAlcindoro – Peter Haeggström Barn...Friday, February 28, 2025 from operaramblings
Thursday evening’s concert by the Vancouver Chamber Choir at Christ Church Deer Park was the culmination of Soundstreams’ RBC Bridges Emerging Composers program. It’s an annual week long workshop that brings six young...Thursday, February 27, 2025 from We left at the interval...
The March issue of France’s Opéra Magazine is here already, so it's still going after all. Its favourite recording this month, to which it awards one of its ‘Diamonds’, is Vannina Santoni’s Par Amour, a recital of French and Italian...Thursday, February 27, 2025 from operaramblings
Back in July I saw a crazy clown show called Monks at the Fringe. It’s back playing at the Theatre Centre. It’s basically the same show with Veronica Hortigüela and Annie Luján playing a pair of delinquent Benedictines on...Thursday, February 27, 2025 from We left at the interval...
La Monnaie, Brussels, Sunday February 23 2025 Conductor: Alain Altinoglu. Production: Pierre Audi. Video: Chris Kondek. Sets: Michael Simon. Costumes: Petra Reinhardt. Lighting: Valerio Tiberi. Siegfried: Bryan Register. Gunther: Andrew...Monday, February 24, 2025 from operaramblings
So what looks fun in March? March 1st (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) Apocryphonia have a “classical meets punk” concert called Brews, Beauties and Brawlers at St. Olave’s Anglican Church at 7.30pm. PWYC. March 5th Canadian Art...Sunday, February 23, 2025 from operaramblings
Blind Dates is an hour long one woman show written and performed by Vivian Chong and directed by Marjorie Chan. It’s a kind of odyssey in which Chong explores aspects of living with blindness via her experiences with dating and...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from operaramblings
Tuesday evening in the RBA members of the COC Ensemble Studio competed for the biannual Christina and Louis Quilico Awards. These days every time I attend a singing competition, which I have been doing much less of, I ask myself …...Friday, February 21, 2025 from operaramblings
Most new Canadian operas get an initial run (if they are lucky) and then disappear. Luna Pearl Woolf and Royce Vavrek’s Jacqueline is unusual in that following it’s premiere at Tapestry Opera in Toronto in 2020 it also...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Boulezian
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It’s the rub that makes the difference, not the sauce. Or so we are told by Fancy’s stepfather and uncle who now runs the family BBQ restaurant somewhere far south of Elsinore in James ljames’ Fat Ham which opened on...