Music

Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company Fall Season 2024 / Faust by Charles Gounod

A well-sung opera with a rather bizarre set and staging that is sometimes at odds with Gounod’s melancholy score.

Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company Fall Season 2024 / Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi

The splendid production of Verdi’s Nabucco is a giant hit for the COC.

Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company Spring Season/Don Pasquale

Review of the COC’s delightful and witty production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.

Opera Review – Toronto Operetta Theatre/El Huésped del Sevillano

Toronto Operetta Theatre mounts the Canadian Premiere of a zarzuela (Spanish operetta).

Opera Review – Canadian Opera Company Spring Season/Medea, closes May 17.

Review of the COC’s impressive production of Cherubini’s Medea.

Aradia Ensemble – “Handel’s The Dublin Messiah”

Posted on December 19, 2011, updated on March 23, 2020 by pcitron

Over the centuries, Handel’s Messiah has become individualized, depending on the conductor’s choices of what to include and what to leave out. Thus, it is a valuable exercise to experience the original 1742 version that was performed in Dublin as a charity concert. The Dublin Messiah has now become part of the Toronto holiday tradition […]