In Mandarin it is called Jingju. In English it is Peking Opera, or if you prefer, Beijing Opera. But whatever you call it, for William Lau, it is the passion of a lifetime. "Jingju is the opera of the capital," Lau, who is a program officer. He
The head of the National Gallery will leave his post when his term expires. Marc Mayer will have served 10 years in the prestigious job. A final date has not been announced but it is expected to happen early in the new year, a gallery official
Mark Godden fell in love with Canada when he first came to take ballet training with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He had moved from Dallas, Texas, in the 1980s and really never left the country. "I have spent more of my life in Canada than I ever
For Christian Tetzlaff, it really is all about the music. "I am not the composer. I give it all that I have, but it is impossible to think you are as important as the composer. With some interpreters, you get the feeling it is about them
Hip-hop is just another subset of popular music, right? Wrong. It’s inevitably puffed up, facile and obnoxious, right? Wrong again. In any case, you know you want nothing to do with the stuff, right? You could be proven wrong on that score as well according to a couple of the
Last summer the novelist, playwright, essayist and poet David Adams Richards did something he had never done before. He swore an oath to Queen and country and entered the Senate of Canada as an independent representative of the people of New Brunswick. It was, he said
Paul Lang informs me, as I step into his office at the National Gallery, that I was the first journalist he spoke with when he came to Canada in 2011, and would now be the last. Both interviews — and several in between — were
It doesn’t get much more traditional at the symphony than a program of Brahms and Schumann. But far from being staid, Wednesday evening’s NACO concert showed how even the most conservative of repertoires can spark and sizzle over the hot coals of imagination and daring. At
The National Gallery of Canada was out of options when it decided to sell Marc Chagall's La Tour Eiffel to keep an unnamed national treasure in the country, Marc Mayer says. The gallery director said, in a hastily organized media scrum in the Great Hall on
In 14 years leading the Victoria Symphony in the B.C. capital, Tania Miller commissioned more than 75 original works of music. It is an impressive number for someone who didn't start out with a conducting career in mind. She has ended her time in Victoria and for
