This winter at Southminster United Church the regular Wednesday music mash-up features music from Baroque to Brazil and from Benny Goodman to Benjamin Britten. The Doors Open for Music series, which is celebrating its fifth year this February, features performers from near and far. It resumes
A word of advice: If you’re going to see this superlative chamber musical, take the time to read the introductory notes from Macau Experimental Theatre that accompany the National Arts Centre’s program as well as the program itself. That material will give you not just the
January is the start of a new year, but it also marks the midpoint of the classical and dance seasons. Here are my top can’t-miss performances for the next six months: Wonder Women: Jan 10-11, NACO’s intense Associate Concertmaster Jessica Linnebach teams up with powerhouse conductor
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? — Harlem by Langston
Ottawa native, mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta, topped the list as the WhatsOnStage Opera poll's breakthrough artist of 2017. She won for her work with Opera North, a Leeds, England-based company in the shows La Cenerentola, L'Enfant et les sortilèges and Trouble in Tahiti.The poll is conducted by What'sOnStage, a
When Peter Herrndorf assumed the role of president and CEO of the National Arts Centre 18 years ago, he was nervous. "Anybody walking in should have been a little nervous." But his experience at the CBC building The National and at Toronto Life magazine had prepared him. "Whenever
Leo Tolstoy: Despite good cause for it, I have never stopped loving you. Sofia Tolstoy: Of course Leo Tolstoy: But God knows you don't make it easy Sofia Tolstoy: Why should it be easy? I am the work of your life, you are the work of mine. That's what love is. • This imagined
The on-going revelations of sexual harassment in the arts world don't surprise mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta. The Ottawa native said in a recent interview that she has been sexually assaulted and harassed in her opera career. "I have been sexually assaulted four times in the workplace by prominent
