Adrianne’s Ariadne
Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka You know you’re an opera fan when___ . There are lots of ways to complete the sentence, but how about this one(….?): you know you’re an opera fan when you come out of the...
View ArticleUnexpected Tosca
Just when you think you know how a story will turn out –because it’s such a well-known opera—they throw you a curve. There’s no drama quite like experiencing a work you think you know, where they’ve...
View Article10 Questions for Ileana Montalbetti
Canadian soprano Ileana Montalbetti has been one of the standouts in the new Canadian Opera Company production of Peter Grimes. The Toronto Star’s review, for instance says “when we start to consider...
View ArticleCOC Ballo voices
Back on February 2nd (aka Groundhog Day: when the cowardly little varmints ran back into their little holes) I had a choice. I could have gone to see the opening of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ballo...
View ArticleSoundstreams: Beyond the Aria but not beyond Virtuosity
Tonight in a Soundstreams concert titled “Adrianne Pieczonka: Beyond the Aria” we saw and heard two great operatic artists go beyond their usual boundaries, using their instruments in unexpected ways....
View ArticleQuestions for Bruno Roy
Time flies. It seems like it was only yesterday that baritone Bruno Roy was a finalist in Centre Stage, the 2015 Ensemble Studio competition. The new voice that we had never heard before? He is now...
View ArticleBeyond Borders with Toronto Summer Music
Tonight was the opening concert of Toronto Summer Music, running until August 3rd at multiple venues in Toronto. In this the third year of Jonathan Crow’s tenure as Artistic Director the talent pool...
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