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Tag Archives: Carla Huhtanen
Ulysses comes home
Opera Atelier’s Revival of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses (1640) starts slowly but builds to a strong finish. By intermission I had enjoyed a few moments (Kresimir Spicer in the title role and Mireille Lebel as Penelope, and Meghan Lindsay … Continue reading
An Electric Messiah comes to Messiahville
We may as well be living in Messiahville. There are so many performances of this work in Toronto, it’s amazing that they don’t play excerpts on the organ at hockey games (but then again, there’s been so little cause for … Continue reading
Perfecting Persée
This morning I wondered, hm will I have anything to say? This is Opera Atelier’s third Persée this millennium. And now I have so much to say that I’ll probably have to split it into at least two separate posts. … Continue reading
Posted in Music and musicology, Opera, Reviews
Tagged Carla Huhtanen, Chris Enns, Curtis Sullivan, David Fallis, Debussy, Gerard Gauci, Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, Lawrence Wiliford, Lully, Marshall Pynkoski, Mireille Asselin, Olivier LaQuerre, Peggy Kriha Dye, Pelleas et Melisande, Persee
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Tapestry Briefs
Back i go to the laboratory. A couple of nights ago I wrote about YouTopia and spoke of the virtues of experimentation. The Tapestry Briefs are a dozen short works from a handful of collaborators who were paired off for … Continue reading
10 Questions for Carla Huhtanen
Soprano Carla Huhtanen is in demand internationally for her soaring, translucent voice, her winning stage presence, and her diverse repertoire, gracing stages throughout Europe and across North America, a strong interpreter of traditional repertoire, unafraid of new composition. A regular … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Carla Huhtanen, Opera Atelier, Peter McGillivray, Stewart Arnott, Svadba, Talisker Players, Time and Tide
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First look at Freischütz
Tonight I attended the dress rehearsal of the Opera Atelier production of Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz at the Elgin Theatre, a moment I’d been eagerly anticipating for weeks. Coming into the evening I was certain we’d have at … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Carla Huhtanen, David Fallis, Der Freischütz, Marshall Pynkoski, Meghan Lindsay, Opera Atelier, Vasil Garvanliev
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