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Today’s Streams: Dec. 17th

By La Scena Musicale Team on 17 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Opera

Here are today’s streamed concerts you shouldn’t miss! Enjoy. This new feature will until January 1, 2021. To submit your event, please email [email protected]. Met Opera Streams: Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini Starring Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, and Cornell MacNeil, conducted by James Levine. From April 7, 1984. For more information, visit www.metopera.org/ Les Voix Humaines – The Art of Fugue The Art of Fugue for viol consort? Why not! This ensemble of viols of various sizes, used in numerous polyphonic compositions during the 16th and 17th centuries, links, through its timbre, Bach’s masterpiece with the great contrapuntal tradition of which it represents…

Today’s Streams: Dec. 15th

By La Scena Musicale Team on 15 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Choral, Classical Music

Here are today’s streamed concerts you shouldn’t miss! Enjoy. This new feature will until January 1, 2021. To submit your event, please email [email protected]. The OSM Celebrates the Holidays with Vivaldi and Handel The OSM invites you to celebrate a glorious holiday season with works by two Baroque masters, performed by splendid vocal soloists Anna-Sophie Neher, Stéphanie Manias and Julie Boulianne, and the OSM Chorus and musicians led by Quebec conductor Bernard Labadie. Share in the exuberant joy of Vivaldi’s famous Gloria and be transported by the excitement of the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah! For more information, visit www.osm.ca/…

Today’s Streams: Dec. 14th

By Newswire on 14 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Choral, Classical Music, Opera

Here are today’s streamed concerts you shouldn’t miss! Enjoy. This new feature will until January 1, 2021. To submit your event, please email [email protected]. Met Opera Streams: Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila Starring Elīna Garanča, Roberto Alagna, Laurent Naouri, Elchin Azizov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Sir Mark Elder. From October 20, 2018. For more information, visit www.metopera.org Messiah/Complex Premièring this December, the multi-award-winning innovative team at Against the Grain Theatre (AtG) is proud to present a bold, virtual interpretation of Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by and in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), and co-directed by Joel Ivany, the Founding Artistic…

Brott Music Festival Launches Online Streaming Platform

By Newswire on 9 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Choral, Classical Music

Hamilton, Ontario – Boris Brott and the Brott Music Festival are pleased to announce that this December, they will launch ‘Brott To You’, an online video streaming platform where audiences can experience the magic of the Brott Music Festival from the comfort and safety of home. Most industries have taken a major hit due to the COVID 19 pandemic, but the arts are one of the most affected. Without any way to safely hold in-person concerts, music organizations have had to innovate, finding ways to safely share their gifts with the community and create performance opportunities for many partnering…

The OCM Messiah is really getting around

By Arthur Kaptainis on 7 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

Boris Brott and the Orchestre classique de Montréal are not big in Japan. At least not yet. They are, however, doing rather well in Mexico. “And comments on Facebook too,” OCM executive director Taras Kulish says about the flurry of interest south of the border in a performance of Handel’s Messiah, which starts streaming on Dec. 8. “I never expected this reaction.” Few could have expected the OCM to attract Mexicans with a concert emanating from St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal. But such are the paradoxes – and opportunities – of concert culture in the age of COVID. We are told…

Suzie LeBlanc Appointed Early Music Vancouver Artistic and Executive Director

By Newswire on 7 December 2020 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

Vancouver, BC – Early Music Vancouver (EMV), alongside its Board of Directors, today announced the appointment of Suzie LeBlanc C.M. as Artistic and Executive Director. LeBlanc is the first female to take the helm at EMV since its founding in May 1970. She will assume the role on January 4, 2021. A charismatic and tireless champion of early music and Acadian culture, LeBlanc is an internationally celebrated Canadian soprano, an early music specialist and educator who is admired by artists and administrators alike. Born in New Brunswick, but currently residing in Montreal, she has managed a globe-spanning career for 35…

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Mécénat Musica names Karina Gauvin inaugural Artist in Residence

By Newswire on 17 November 2020 Baroque and Early, Chamber Music, Classical Music, Opera, Vocal

Montreal, November 17, 2020 – Karina Gauvin, Montreal soprano, is Mécénat Musica’s first collaborative Artist in Residence. Karina Gauvin is a soprano of international renown, collaborating and vivaciously performing with the greatest symphony orchestras, opera companies and recital series around the world. Ms. Gauvin has recorded 50+ albums and among her distinctions has three Grammy nominations. The New York Times describes Ms. Gauvin as singing “with serene ease and radianceʺ. Opera News calls her the “queen of Baroque opera”. As collaborative Artist in Residence Ms. Gauvin will be performing with Mécénat Musica organizations and is also a donor under the Mécénat Musica program to keep…

Against the Grain Theatre Presents: Messiah/Complex

By Newswire on 10 November 2020 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

TORONTO — premiering this December 13 on AtG TV, the multi-award-winning innovative team at Against the Grain Theatre(AtG) is proud to present a bold interpretation of Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by and in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), co-directed by Joel Ivany, the Founding Artistic Director of AtG, and Reneltta Arluk, Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The seventy-minute filmed performance of Messiah/Complex will showcase multilingual translations, and feature a diverse cast of soloists and choirs representing every province and territory across Canada, accompanied by the exceptional musicians of the TSO and conducted by…

Festival Bach Montréal: Hear Concerts Anywhere on New Streaming Platform

By Arthur Kaptainis on 6 November 2020 Baroque and Early, Classical Music

The Festival Bach Montréal opens its 2020 proceedings on Nov. 19 in St. Joseph’s Oratory, or in your living room, depending on your point of view. The program gathering four organists and the Schola de l’Oratoire starts at 7:30 p.m., or whenever you like – again, according to taste. The annual celebration of the great J.S. is going online and has built a new digital platform – Québec Baroque or www.quebecbaroque.com – to make it feasible. “Québec Baroque offers you the opportunity to catch up on many of its performances several days after their initial broadcast,” reads an online introduction to…

Francis Colpron, flutist and founder of Les Boréades

Les Boréades: 25 Years of Making Early Music

By Justin Bernard on 6 November 2020 Baroque and Early, Opera

The baroque instrumental ensemble Les Boréades is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding by flutist Francis Colpron. But this is a celebration unlike any other. In spite of the continuing restrictions and uncertainties caused by the pandemic, Colpron wants to keep in touch with subscribers and fellow musicians while continuing to perform in concert. Digital technologies are a godsend, and the ensemble’s members are all set to use them. “For the time being, we’re looking closely at any opportunity to perform in front of cameras, so people can share the concert with us on their screens,” says the artistic…

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