Wagnerians in Concert

Wagnerians in Concert – Live May 8, 2021

...ay 8 at 1:00 PM ET A quartet of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers comes together for a program of soaring selections by Wagner and Strauss. Transmitted live from the grand Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany, this unbeatable summit of leading Wagnerian voices features sopranos Christine Goerke and Elza van den Heever, tenor Andreas Schager, and baritone Michael Volle, with pianist Craig Terry, in excerpts from Tannhäuser, Parsi...
Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal

Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal – Bach Cantatas

...the most well-liked and frequently performed of Bach’s cantatas, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, which owes its popularity chiefly to the transcription for piano of the final chorale, the beloved Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Artists Choir and orchestra Stephanie Manias, soprano Known for her lush voice and dramatic artistry, soprano Stephanie Manias is a frequent performer in the greater Montreal area. She is heard regularly as a soloist and chor...
Jane Archibald

Jane Archibald in Concert – February 26, 2022

...Rossignol L’enfant et les sortilèges at the BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle and Cunégonde Candide with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. After beginning her professional opera career in her native Canada, Jane was an Adler Fellow and Merola participant with the San Francisco Opera. She then moved to the Vienna State Opera as a member of the ensemble, debuting many coloratura rol...
Der Rosenkavalier

Metropolitan Opera’s Der Rosenkavalier Live in HD – April 15, 2023

...rd Strauss German w/e.s.t. A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Brian Mulligan is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. Maestro Simone Young takes the Met podium to oversee...
Marie-Ève Munger - An Evening of Schubert

An Evening of Schubert – November 26, 2021

...ted Press) with “glassy-clear coloratura” (The New York Times). Recent successes include her debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Teatro alla Scala, Barcelona’s Liceu and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Patrice Chéreau’s production of Elektra, La Monnaie with the world premiere of Pinocchio, Opéra de Marseille in My Fair Lady, Opéra de Montréal in Roméo et Juliette, Munich’s Bayericher Rundfunks orchestra in Lakmé and l’Enfant...
Winterreise - Joyce DiDonato

Winterreise – Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin

...ain it stands as one of the great achievements in art … When great artists undertake Winterreise it is a transporting experience, and we’re lucky that DiDonato has added her interpretation to the performance tradition.” Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Winterreise D.911 (published as Op.89) (1827) Texts: Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) – Editions Bärenreiter Gute Nacht (Mässig) (D minor) Die Wetterfahne (Ziemlich geschwind) (A minor) Gefrorne Tränen (Nicht...
Gordon Bintner

An evening of Romantic Lieder with Gordon Bintner – November 10, 2023

...e debuts at Opéra National de Paris as Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place under Kent Nagano, at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte conducted by Julia Jones, at San Francisco Opera in Robert Carsen’s classic production of Eugene Onegin and at Opéra national de Lyon in the title role of Le Nozze di Figaro under Alexandre Bloch. A native of Canada, Bintner is a former member of the Opera Studio of Canadian Opera Company...
The 2022 Montreal Bach Festival closes with three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most sublime cantatas, carefully chosen by Bernard Labadie,

Bach, que ma joie demeure – December 9, 2022

...Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale under Richard Egarr and his Johannes-Passion with Les Violons du Roy with Bernard Labadie, Mozart and Mendelssohn concert arias with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Giovanni Antonini, Mahler’s Symphony No.2 with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya and Kazushi Ono and further performances Telemann’s Pastorelle en Musique at the M...