Review: NACO on Tour–New York Dispatch, Boris Brott Remembered
The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall concert on Tuesday night began under a dark cloud, as musicians learned of the horrific hit-and-run death of…
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[Concert review] Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Met: Canadians are stellar in a magnificent performance
At long last many COVID restrictions have been removed almost entirely across Canada, yet opera lovers are apparently not quite ready to flock back to…
Review: Truth in our time – NACO Toronto Premiere
The National Arts Centre Orchestra is touring for the first time since before the Covid era, its new Philip Glass commission to Toronto and New…
Review : Montero & Shostakovich with NACO
If you want an example of how all art is political, you needn’t look any further than the National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Southam Hall concerts…
OCM offers Ravel great and small
The second concert of the Orchestre classique de Montréal season, Tuesday in Salle Pierre-Mercure, came adorned with thematic and honorary elements. In musical essence it…
[Concert review] Opéra de Montréal’s Mixtape: A remix of a classic formula
Last Sunday (Nov 21, 2022), Opéra de Montréal kickstarted their season to a Jam-packed Wilfrid-Pelletier crowd of hungry Operaphiles. The “mixtape” concert featured the artists-in-residence…
Road trip to Detroit yields symphonic pleasure – speed bumps notwithstanding
Last week I had the pleasure of hearing the Cleveland Orchestra in top form at its home in Severance Hall. A real treat after the…
Concert Reviews
By Justin Bernard, Natasha Gauthier, Arthur Kaptainis, Denise Lai, Dino Spaziani La Nef / Myriam Leblanc / Sylvain Bergeron Oct. 2 What you missed…
Review: Cross-border trek to Cleveland proves picture perfect
CLEVELAND – On Nov. 8, the American authorities decided it was safe to let Canadians enter their country by car. The next day I drove…
Good vibrations at TSO reopening
TORONTO – Standing ovations before and after: The response by a live audience to the reappearance of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra following a long separation…
