Centrepointe Theatre is offering a real mix for all ages in their upcoming season of entertainment. For those who love rock and roll there will be appearances by Graham Nash, of the legendary supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash. Before that in the early to mid-60s he
Have voice. Will travel. That motto probably should be on Katherine Whyte's business card. The soprano has built her career as a professional performer by her God-given talent and her willingness to go anywhere to work. Consider her Ottawa debut this Saturday. White will get up a
That Jon Kimura Parker is a real trooper. One time he flew to Sydney, Australia as a last minute fill in. He played four nights in the Sydney Opera House with Maestro David Zinman and loved avery minute of it. His show-must-go-on determination is in evidence this week
The Ottawa choir Seventeen Voyces is, with the Ottawa Baroque Consort and the 'Makin' Moves: Children's Dance Theatre, putting on a performance of a rarely heard English Baroque opera. ARTSFILE's Peter Robb asked the choir's director, Kevin Reeves, why. Q. You are staging Venus and Adonis. Can you
Margaret Atwood still has the first copy of George Orwell's 1984 that she bought as a young teenager. The paperback had a slightly salacious cover with "lots of cleavage." No matter. She read it and remembered it and has that original copy still. In 1984, Atwood started a
Classical chestnuts don’t get much more familiar than Peter and the Wolf. Prokofiev’s musical tale of a boy and his, er, duck has introduced generations of children to the symphony and its instruments, yet its inventive freshness never gets old. Prokofiev’s genius for orchestration and
The story of Canada is so often told with the voice of the dominant culture, it was a rare opportunity Thursday night to hear other takes of the tale of this land and all its peoples. The Restorying Canada conference, currently on-going at uOttawa until Saturday, has
Paula Murray is one of at least three Ottawa-area artists picked to participate in a unique Canada 150 voyage this summer from Toronto to Victoria via the Northwest Passage on the former Coast Guard icebreaker, The Polar Prince. “This opportunity to see Canada’s North is phenomenal,”
A display of 24 famous photographs outside the Canadian Museum of History will tell Canada's story warts and all. Starting with the iconic image of the Last Spike in the Canadian Pacific Railway being hammered home by Donald Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, the pictures show
Mozart wrote his Requiem as a mass for the dead, but the music contains the very stuff of life: pathos and fear, love, judgement, salvation. Musicologist Franz Beyer’s 20th-century edition brings these facets into vivid relief, and on Wednesday John Storgårds and NACO performed it
