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The Royal Conservatory of Music announces preview of 2025/26 season

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

30 CONCERTS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2025-26 SEASON Signature Fundraising Event Superstar soprano Renée Fleming presents Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene Recital featuring the Royal Conservatory Orchestra International Orchestra Series Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra play Mahler Symphony No. 3 TD Jazz Concerts Echoes of an Era featuring Lisa Fischer, Lenny White, Javon Jackson, and Patrice Rushen Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble: Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker SuperBlue: Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter Music Mix French pianist Sofiane Pamart, who performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, known for playing in the French rap…

Music makes us move even when we don’t like it

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Classical Music, Education, Montreal, Newswire

Montreal, Feb. 11 – The pleasurable urge to move to music — to groove — appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new paper led by Concordia researchers. That groove response is so strong it is even found in people with musical anhedonia, those who take little or no pleasure from music. The article’s lead author is Isaac Romkey, a PhD student in the Department of Psychology. He writes in the journal PLOS One that recent research shows the two aspects of groove, pleasure and urge to move, while usually closely correlated, may in fact be…

Scene from Paris Opera's I puritani. Photo: Sebastien Mathe

Review | Lisette Oropesa Triumphs in Misguided Paris I puritani

By Ossama el Naggar on 11 February 2025 Concert Reviews, Opera

Bellini’s final opera, I puritani (1835), premiered shortly before the composer’s untimely death by accidental poisoning. It is one of the highpoints in the romantic Italian bel canto repertoire, leaving us to wonder what other masterpieces Bellini might have written had he lived past thirty-three. I puritani is based on the French play Têtes Rondes et Cavaliers (1833), itself derived from Sir Walter Scott’s Old Mortality (1816). It takes place in Plymouth circa 1640, during the English Civil War fought between Puritans and Royalists culminating with Cromwell’s victory. Reputed to have been Queen Victoria’s favourite opera, it’s dramatically compact and…

Alexandra Marcellier (Blanche de la Force) in Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia's Dialogues des carmélites. Photo: Miguel Lorenzo-Mikel Ponce/Les Arts

Review | A Very Canadian Dialogues des carmélites in Valencia

By Ossama el Naggar on 11 February 2025 Concert Reviews, Opera

Based on Die Letzte am Schafott (“The Song at the Scaffold”), a novella about the execution by guillotine of sixteen Carmelite nuns from Compiègne in 1794, Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) wrote a screenplay for a film that ultimately was not produced. However, seeing its potential, Italian publisher Ricordi bought the rights and commissioned Francis Poulenc to write Dialogues des Carmélites, based on Bernanos’s work. The opera premiered in 1957 at La Scala to great acclaim, and has been a mainstay of the twentieth-century opera canon ever since. In Act I, Blanche de la Force, a young noblewoman afflicted with an unnamed…

Sinfonia Toronto Announces 2025-2026 Season

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Chamber Music, Classical Music, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto

Toronto, ON (January 27, 2025) – Sinfonia Toronto has unveiled its 27th season. Under the baton of Music Director Nurhan Arman the orchestra will present a captivating journey through timeless classics and groundbreaking new works. The 2025-2026 season promises memorable experiences for music lovers of all ages, showcasing the orchestra’s exceptional artistry and commitment to innovative programming. During the next season Sinfonia Toronto will continue to offer three different concert series: Masterpiece Series: Seven brilliant concerts in Toronto’s finest halls – the orchestra’s signature series and the best subscription value. Downtown Concerts: Four intimate performances at the Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre…

Mécénat Musica: Meagan Milatz & Kristin Hoff Win Prix Goyer

By Newswire on 11 February 2025 Classical Music, Montreal

Montreal, February 11, 2025 – For the first time since its inception in 2015, the Mécénat Musica: Prix Goyer for Collaborative Emerging Artist is awarded to two remarkable collaborative artists: Meagan Milatz, piano, co-artistic and executive director of HausMusique; Kristin Hoff, mezzo-soprano, artistic and general director of Musique 3 Femmes and Mini-Opéras Santé Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer 2025-2028 laureates are each awarded $125,000 for a total of $250,000. Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer is the biggest prize of its kind in Canada and one of the largest in the world for a collaborative emerging artist in classical music. Mécénat Musica Prix…

Clavecin en concert Performs Four Classical Trios

By Newswire on 10 February 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Montreal, Newswire, Strings

Montreal, February 5th, 2025 – Clavecin en concert is pleased to announce the first classical trios concert of 2025, featuring works by Johann Christian Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alongside the symphony, string quartet and keyboard sonata, the trio for violin, cello and keyboard remains one of the major genres of classicism. Derived not so much from the Baroque trio sonata, but rather from the “harpsichord pieces that can be played with the accompaniment of a violin and a viola da gamba” in which the French masters gave pride of place to the keyboard, the classical trio…

Tenor Frédéric Antoun, conductor Kent Nagano, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the OSM Chorus give the world premiere of 2016 AMP Laureate Brian Current’s prize-winning Seven Heavenly Halls at Maison symphonique de Montréal.

Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre Opens its Call for Scores & Proposals for the 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes

By Newswire on 10 February 2025 Canadian Music, Choral, Music Competition, Newswire, Orchestral, Toronto, World Music

Toronto, ON, Canada, 10 February 2025 – The Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Centre (AMACC) has opened its international call to composers for the (AMP). For its sixth biennial cycle, AMP is seeking scores and proposals for choir and orchestra with optional soloists. The 2026 call is open from 7 February through 2 May 2025. Created in 2014 by Sharon Azrieli CQ for the Azrieli Foundation, AMP celebrates excellence in music composition by offering the largest prize package of its kind in Canada, making it one of the most substantial composition competitions in the world. “We are looking for composers who exhibit the most…

(L to R) Antoine Malette-Chénier, Catherine St-Arnaud, and Sylvain Bergeron. Photos: Alex Tran, Gaetz Photography, and Guillaume D. Cyr

Review | La Nef: From Double-Digit Cold to Sunny Spain

By Jan Krejcar on 7 February 2025 Baroque and Early, Classical Music, Concert Reviews, Montreal

I was at a dinner party on a very cold, very wintry night right after Christmas, and one of the guests (a non-musician) said, “Wouldn’t it be nice if people researched old instruments from hundreds of years ago and played the pieces that were written then on those instruments?” I didn’t know what to say, really. There have been whole university departments dedicated to historical instruments for many decades now. But I was pleased to see, a month later, on an equally cold and equally wintry night, music from a time very long past, played on just such instruments, making…

Opera Atelier's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Photo: Bruce Zinger

Opera Atelier Announces 2025/2026 Season

By Newswire on 6 February 2025 Classical Music, Dance, Newswire, Opera, Toronto, Vocal

Toronto, ON — Opera Atelier celebrates its landmark 40th year with two significant productions: the company’s iconic production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, on stage October 15, 16, 18 and 19, 2025 at the Elgin Theatre, and the world premiere of Debussy’s surrealist opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, on stage April 15, 16, 18 and 19 2026 at Koerner Hall TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning. “We’re thrilled to open our season in Toronto’s historic Elgin Theatre with the company’s period production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, part of our 40th anniversary celebrations,” says Opera Atelier Founding Co-artistic Director Marshall Pynkoski. “Opera Atelier’s Magic Flute remains North America’s first and only period production of the Opera and has proven to…

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