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Tag Archives: Ben Heppner
Centre Stage 2018: a Night of Voices
There are several ways to watch the annual Centre Stage competition, when young singers vie for a series of awards while seeking places in the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio. You can watch & listen to the competitors, eight young … Continue reading
A closer look at Hadrian
Today was the closing performance of Hadrian, the new opera by Rufus Wainwright and Daniel MacIvor, presented by the Canadian Opera Company at the Four Seasons Centre. After tonight’s display of healthy nearly-naked male bodies in a homosexual love story, … Continue reading
Rufus Wainwright’s Hadrian
Tonight I saw the world premiere of Hadrian, an opera commissioned by the Canadian Opera Company with libretto by Daniel MacIvor, music composed by Rufus Wainwright, directed by Peter Hinton and conducted by Johannes Debus. There are some wonderful performances, … Continue reading
COC Peter Grimes
Tonight I saw the Canadian Opera Company production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. I’m late getting to the party for a production that opened on October 5th, but I was out of town that weekend. Regular readers of newspaper reviews … Continue reading
Posted in Opera, Reviews
Tagged Alan Held, Ben Heppner, Benjamin Britten, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jill Grove, Johannes Debus, Neil Armfield, operabase, Peter Grimes, Richard Wagner
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10 Questions for Ileana Montalbetti
Canadian soprano Ileana Montalbetti has been one of the standouts in the new Canadian Opera Company production of Peter Grimes. The Toronto Star’s review, for instance says “when we start to consider Ileana Montalbetti’s saintly Ellen Orford, we are in … Continue reading
Stuart Hamilton: Opening Windows
I don’t believe there’s anyone who was involved in more aspects of Canadian operatic performance than Stuart Hamilton. I say “was” because many of those are in the past now, but even so, let’s make a list. Hamilton founded Opera … Continue reading
Sellars interviewed
I watched a wonderful interview tonight at the Toronto Public Library, presented in co-operation between the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto Star. Richard Ouzounian of The Star interrogated opera director Peter Sellars, in anticipation of tomorrow’s opening night of … Continue reading
Sellars market
At the intermissions of Tristan und Isolde Friday (dress rehearsal) there was madness in the air, a place rife with miscommunication. Wagner himself said that good performances would make people mad (or crazy), so perhaps that was the problem. A … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Ben Heppner, Bill VIola, COC, Franz-Josef Selig, Peter Sellars, Schopenhauer, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner
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Heppner, Sellars & Viola: Tristan in Toronto
It’s really good. That’s all you need to know. The Canadian Opera Company’s imported production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (originally presented in Paris in 2005), directed by Peter Sellars with video by Bill Viola is quite simply unforgettable. And … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Alan Held, Ben Heppner, Bill VIola, Franz-Josef Selig, Melanie Diener, Peter Sellars, Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
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