Review | J’Nai Bridges Dazzles Toronto Audience with Canadian Recital Debut
Earlier this week, Toronto Summer Music announced that Canadian Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky had been forced to cancel her performance as part of this year’s festival…
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Review | Weekend in Chicago: Muti Steps Down from CSO, Lyric Opera Does West Side Story and Haymarket Opera Gives Hasse Rarity
Last weekend in Chicago the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) held its annual meeting, with meetings and discussion built around some major performances.…
Review | Yuja Wang Dazzles in Rachmaninov with TSO
Among classical artists today pianist Yuja Wang is unquestionably one of the select few who can fill a hall and drive an audience into a…
Review | TSO with Gimeno and Olafsson: Superb Mozart and Spectacular Berlioz
It is not often that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) features a soloist from Iceland, nor does it frequently play music by Icelandic composers. Yet…
Review | Augustin Hadelich & Elim Chan Make Welcome Return to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
This was an unusual week at the TSO. After violin superstar Nicola Benedetti cancelled her appearance on short notice, the orchestra had to scramble for…
Review | NAC Orchestra’s stellar performance of The Planets
It was a phenomenal night of endings and new beginnings for the National Arts Centre (NAC): the orchestra capped off both 2023’s Mentorship program and…
Review | San Francisco Symphony delivers the timeless message of Britten’s War Requiem, opus 66
Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” was magnificently performed this weekend by the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Guest Conductor Phillipe Jordan, music director of…
Review | COC’s Tosca
Tosca is a riveting drama of love, lust and betrayal. Add in Puccini’s impossibly lush score and a few show-stopper arias, this opera is the…
Review | Canadian Opera Company’s Macbeth a Hit with some Misses
Emboldened by witches’ prophesies and with strong encouragement from his wife, Macbeth turns into a power-thirsty man who uses violence to annihilate everything in his…
Review | Epic Interpretation of Messiaen’s Turangalila-Symphonie
Since assuming the podium as TSO conductor, Gustavo Gimeno’s leadership of the TSO to its rightful place on the world stage has been self-evident. His…
