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Tag Archives: Russell Braun
Nixon in China, 2021
The Metropolitan Opera feed of free streaming performances celebrate American composers the week of July 4th Independence Day. I was especially excited to get another look at John Adams’s Nixon in China, that we saw both via a production by … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, video & DVDs, Dance, theatre & musicals, Music and musicology, Opera, Politics, Reviews
Tagged Alice Goodman, Canadian Opera Company, Carolyn Maule, Chou En-lai, James Maddalena, Janis Kelly, John Adams, Karl Marx, Kathleen Kim, Mao Tse-tung, Metropolitan Opera High Definition Broadcast, Nixon in China, Peter Sellars, Richard Paul Fink, Robert Brubaker, Russell Braun
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#COCgingerbread: Joel Ivany softens a Grimm tale of cruelty
It’s called “Hansel and Gretel”, not “kill the witch”. And in the original the witch isn’t even the nastiest character. You may already know that the new Canadian Opera Company production of Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel modernizes the setting to … Continue reading
Make-believe Hansel and Gretel
Oh to be a child again. I saw the opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s new Hansel and Gretel tonight before a delighted sell-out crowd at the Four Seasons Centre. While there were children present both in the show … Continue reading
Parenthood, poverty, Hansel & Gretel: a conversation with Joel Ivany
In a few days Joel Ivany, Artistic Director of Against the Grain Theatre, will be premiering his new Hansel and Gretel at the Four Seasons Centre, in a Canadian Opera Company production. Singled out for last year’s Against the Grain … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Literature, Interviews, Opera
Tagged Adelheid Wette, Against the Grain Theatre, Alexander Neef, Brothers Grimm, Curious George, Emily Fons, Engelbert Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel, Home Alone, Joel Ivany, Johannes Debus, Krisztina Szabo, Michael Colvin, Russell Braun, Simone Osborne, Where the Wilds Things Are
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TSO Messiah via Mozart
Tonight I heard something different from the Toronto Symphony. The TSO’s annual Messiah in Roy Thomson Hall with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir may seem like a ritual, but it actually varies from year to year. Every time we get different … Continue reading
Posted in Music and musicology, Opera, Reviews
Tagged Alexander Shelley, David Fallis, Emily D'Angelo, George Frideric Handel, Isaiah Bell, Jane Archibald, Messiah, Mozart, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Roy Thomson Hall, Russell Braun, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra
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Egoyan- Lite
I had another look at the Canadian Opera Company’s Cosi fan tutte tonight, a production that I enjoyed even more this time in its closing performance. Last time I was content to have so much fun & so many laughs, … Continue reading
COC fan tutte
Is it really five years ago? Time flies. In January 2014 Atom Egoyan’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte had its premiere with the Canadian Opera Company. I looked back at what I wrote and –after having seen the revival … Continue reading
Questions for Bruno Roy
Time flies. It seems like it was only yesterday that baritone Bruno Roy was a finalist in Centre Stage, the 2015 Ensemble Studio competition. The new voice that we had never heard before? He is now about to make his … Continue reading
Ten Questions for Christopher Enns
Born in Manitoba, tenor Christopher Enns is in his final season with the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio. He made his COC debut as an American/Glass Maker/Strolling Player in Death in Venice. Enns was one of the strengths of the … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Ambur Braid, Christpher Enns, Garth Brooks, La Clemenza di Tito, Magic Flute, Mozart, Russell Braun, Tamino
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Roméo et Juliette 2008
I watched TFO’s broadcast of a live performance of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, from a 2008 Salzburg production. There was a bit of drama backstage, with Anna Netrebko’s cancellation, replaced by the unknown Georgian soprano Nino Machaidze. Machaidze was only … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged Gounod, Nino Machaidze, Rollando Villazon, Roméo et Juliette, Russell Braun, Yannick Nezet-seguin
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