Miss d’Angelo sure photographs well
A couple of good photos of Emily d’A in the Opera News apropos her recent prise du role as Rosina at Glimmerglass. At twenty-three, she has a rich, flexible, darkly gleaming voice, well suited to a...
View ArticleNew songsters on the block
A whole bunch of us missed the Muse 9 staging of Dominick Argento’s song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf because it took place on the night of the Nightingale premiere at the COC. There’s a...
View ArticleJoyce El-Khoury and Beste Kalender in recital
A few (belatedly posted) thoughts on the Joyce El-K and Beste K recent concert at the RCM, on the Wholenote website. Art songs delivered in a full-on operatic register within a small resonant space...
View ArticleVerbotenlieder, or women take over men’s repertoire
After an all-male, all-baritone and crowded Die Winterreise this summer, baritones Aaron Durand and Michael Nyby a.k.a. the Tongue-in-Cheek Productions decided in the interest of fairness and variety...
View ArticleALERT: A mezzo Cesare coming up
Britain’s Opera North recently announced the 19/20 season and whaddaya know: a mezzo Cesare is in the offing, that precious and almost extinct species. This fall, the northern four-city opera is...
View ArticleApril in Art Song: Judy Loman (82), the harp godess
When she joined the TSO, Loman was by no means the only woman, she tells me; while some of the internationally prominent orchestras to this day struggle with the issue of too few women in the ranks,...
View ArticleSomething to cheer us all up
Pics from the recent Opera Atelier production of Idomeneo. Wallis Giunta (Idamante) and Meghan Lindsay (Ilia). Did not go to see this because ~ Opera Atelier be Opera Ateliering ~ but if the OA Alcina...
View ArticleComing up: Pomegranate
Amanda Hale, novelist, poet and now the librettist for Pomegranate (June 5-9, Buddies in Bad Times), is a fascinating interlocutor. Watch this space for more about her work in the near future. But...
View ArticlePomegranate reviewed
First, the good news. Pomegranate, subtitled A lesbian chamber opera, composed by Kye Marshall, written by Amanda Hale, directed by Michael Mori and conducted by Jennifer Tung, which just closed its...
View ArticleDas Lied for the final lap of the TSMF
The TSMF performance of Das Lied von der Erde in the Schoenberg/Riehn reduction was a mixed bag last night, with orchestral side coming through and the vocal one much less so. The usually very capable...
View ArticleWhen a woman thinks of man, her thinking is praised
I watched the streaming of Olga Neuwirth’s new opera Orlando (libretto Catherine Filloux and Olga Neuwirth) today and have a few thoughts – mostly on the libretto. Which is based on Virginia Woolf’s...
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The Coronation will not proceed
Alas. Marie Nicole Lemieux Nerone will not make it to stage this June.
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Handel: Italian Cantatas
Currently listening Available on Naxos Music Library with a Toronto Public Library card, and also on all the usual commercial streaming places.
View ArticleNew mezzo on the block
My latest online obsession is Renee Fleming’s master classes, may the gods of YouTube never make me run out of videos. This one in particular intrigued me recently. The then-baby-pants mezzo Allegra de...
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