This Saturday six singers will seek the top prize in the biennial Brian Law Opera Competition in a concert in Southminster United Church as part of the Concerts by the Canal series. The competition is one of the key activities conducted by the National Capital
John Storgårds gets nightmares when he doesn't play his violin very much. Lack of contact with the instrument of his musical life upsets his world seemingly. He should sleep well this week. The NAC Orchestra's principal guest conductor will be showing off the range of his musical
Kiya Tabassian is a musical explorer and an explorer of music. His journeys take him back in time and around the world in a search for inspiration for his ensemble Constantinople. That search often produces a range of concerts and this fall and winter, his group
More than 114,000 people live in Orléans, but for many in the rest of the Ottawa region, the community is not all that well known. That ignores the fact that there is a strong community spirit in Orléans and there are artists who live in that
On the day we talked, Adam Gopnik, the well-known New Yorker writer and essayist and Canadian ex-pat, was in a hotel room on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. He was looking out at a car wash, a billboard and a dime laundromat. It was an
By Natalie Harmsen As Nov. 11 approaches, the people behind a unique, international commemorative project are asking Canadians: How do we remember? The Toronto-based non-profit The World Remembers is offering its own answer by projecting the names of the soldiers killed during the First World War
By Nathaniel Dove A sacred waterfall in the heart of Canada’s capital, its majesty obscured by industrial activity since before Confederation, will be under a spotlight this month as part of the Ottawa 2017 celebrations marking the country’s 150th birthday. Entitled Miwate — Anishinaabe for “dazzle with
As a teenager, Ottawa composer Andrew Ager used to like to get out at night and hang with his buddies. There was nothing sinister about it, nothing criminal, just a bit of after-midnight wanderlust. So the lads would walk the streets of their Alta Vista
The NAC’s Ideas of North Festival continued Thursday night at the NAC with Finnish contemporary dance in the Babs Asper Theatre and Finnish and Canadian music in Southam Hall with NACO and guest conductor Hannu Lintu. Choreographer Tero Saarinen, who blew me away 10 years ago
By Floriane Bonneville The place and legacy of Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald has been the subject of much renewed debate since the 200th anniversary of his birth in 2015. This summer an Ontario teachers’ union stirred up a noisy controversy by suggesting
