-
Recent Posts
- Anticipating David James Brock’s upcoming Room of Keys: an interview
- French Meditations take Scarborough Philharmonic to new heights
- Cyclops on the edge
- JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and JS Vallée
- Ugly crying at Yuval Sharon’s brilliant Tristan und Isolde from the Metropolitan Opera
Subjects
- Animals, domestic & wild
- Art, Architecture & Design
- Books & Literature
- Cinema, video & DVDs
- Dance, theatre & musicals
- Essays
- Food, Health and Nutrition
- guest blog
- Interviews
- Music and musicology
- My mother
- Opera
- Personal ruminations & essays
- Politics
- Popular music & culture
- Press Releases and Announcements
- Psychology and perception
- Reviews
- Spirituality & Religion
- Sports
- University life
- Against the Grain Theatre
- Alexander Neef
- Allyson McHardy
- Barbara Hannigan
- Beethoven
- Benjamin Britten
- Canadian Opera Company
- Canadian Stage
- Christopher Alden
- classical-music
- Claude Debussy
- Colin Ainsworth
- Crow's Theatre
- Das Rheingold
- David Fallis
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Four Seasons Centre
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frederic Chopin
- George Frideric Handel
- Giacomo Puccini
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Glenn Gould
- Guillermo Silva-Marin
- Gustav Mahler
- Gustavo Gimeno
- Handel
- Hector Berlioz
- Ivars Taurins
- Joel Ivany
- Johannes Debus
- John Adams
- Jonathan Crow
- JS Bach
- Koerner Hall
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Marshall Pynkoski
- Maurice Ravel
- Meghan Lindsay
- Messiah
- Metropolitan Opera
- Mireille Asselin
- Mozart
- music
- opera
- Opera Atelier
- Pelleas et Melisande
- Peter Oundjian
- Philip Glass
- piano
- Puccini
- Richard Strauss
- Richard Wagner
- Rigoletto
- Robert Lepage
- Roy Thomson Hall
- Russell Braun
- Sky Gilbert
- Sondra Radvanovsky
- Stewart Goodyear
- Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
- Talk is Free Theatre
- Tapestry Opera
- theatre
- Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
- Toronto Operetta Theatre
- Toronto Summer Music
- Toronto Symphony
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Tristan und Isolde
- University of Toronto
- Wagner
- William Shakespeare
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Archives
- April 2026
- March 2026
- February 2026
- January 2026
- December 2025
- November 2025
- October 2025
- September 2025
- August 2025
- July 2025
- June 2025
- May 2025
- April 2025
- March 2025
- February 2025
- January 2025
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- August 2022
- July 2022
- June 2022
- May 2022
- April 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December 2021
- November 2021
- October 2021
- September 2021
- August 2021
- July 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- April 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- July 2020
- June 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
Meta
-
Join 385 other subscribers
Category Archives: Dance, theatre & musicals
Adizokan
Tonight I was present for the premiere of Adizokan, a collaboration between Red Sky Performance and the Toronto Symphony as part of Canada 150. It was much easier surrendering to the sounds and sights of this multi-media multi-disciplinary work than … Continue reading
Canadian double delight
Rare as it may be to encounter a full evening of opera from Canadian composers, that’s what Summer Opera Lyric Theatre offered tonight in their season opener. The Robert Gill Theatre was packed with a receptive crowd for a double … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Opera, Reviews
Leave a comment
Forensic Composition, or when the script is like a CSI
That headline is dead serious and no joke. I was brought in twice way back in the 1970s as a composer by directors looking with puzzlement at play scripts. It would happen again later. These formative projects changed the way … Continue reading
Irresistible Flea
I am usually drawn to Fringe shows either by the material or by the personnel in the show, so I couldn’t miss Pulse Theatre’s production of Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear. It’s directed by Aleksandar Sasha Lukac, a director … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Reviews
3 Comments
#Odysseo in Mississauga: Celebrating what it is to be Canadian
Tonight it was my great pleasure to witness the opening night of Odysseo in the big tents set up beside the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, presented by Cavalia. Cavalia is a company led by Normand Latourelle that features live music, … Continue reading
Bad Jews: laughter and tears
Tonight I was held captive by the eruptions of emotion in Joshua Harmon’s 2012 comedy Bad Jews, receiving its Canadian premiere production at the Small World Music Centre, in the Koffler Centre for the Arts, directed by Michèle Lonsdale-Smith. Yes … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Reviews
Leave a comment
Precarity in the alternative space of Other Jesus
Evan Webber’s new play Other Jesus, that has been getting presented nightly at St Matthew’s United Church on St Clair, opens a discursive space that I’ve been contemplating. I’m not entirely sure I’m objective about this, given that I’m projecting … Continue reading
The Return and its promise
Three performances remain of The Return (il ritorno) at the Bluma Appel Theatre, the last of Canadian Stage’s “Spotlight Australia”, a kind of festival that they’ve offered the past few weeks. The Return, from Circa appears to be the creation of Yaron Lifschitz, … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Opera, Reviews
3 Comments
Questions for Evan Webber: Other Jesus
Evan Webber is a writer and performance maker who lives in Toronto. Evan’s work considers the relationship between time and text, and between narratives and institutions. Evan is an Associate Artist of Public Recordings, a collaborative operation that conjoins artistic research, performance … Continue reading
Robert Lepage speaks white in 887
Although I missed Robert Lepage’s 887 the first time it came to Toronto in 2015 (during the Pan Am Games) I’m glad I was able to see it today with Canadian Stage at the Bluma Appel, in a short run … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, theatre & musicals, Music and musicology, Opera, Politics
3 Comments
barczablog 