Toronto

Toronto – home to a burgeoning theatre scene, innovative restaurants, museums and art galleries

...it the always interesting Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), our visit to the fascinating Casa Loma and our dining experiences at The Drake Commissary and Ricarda’s. Travel Planner: Tourism Toronto: www.SeeTorontoNow.com VIA Rail: www.viarail.ca Mirvish Theatres: www.mirvish.com Omni King Edward Hotel: www.omnihotels.com The Broadview Hotel: www.thebroadviewhotel.ca STK: www.STKHOUSE.COM The Rec Room: www.TheRecRoom.com The Drake Commissary: www.drakecom...

Touring New Hampshire – mountain villages, elegant hotels, beaches, & fabulous entertainment

...there. To say the weather can sometimes be harsh at the summit would be an understatement. You don’t want to go to New Hampshire and not take a trip up the mountain on The Cog Railway. It’s simply a must do. Kids big and little will love it. (And I had the exceptional joy of riding down in the front of the engine!) From the sublime to the equally sublime, but in a different direction. The second night was spent in Meredith at The Inn and Spa at Mi...
Sonya Yoncheva

Sonya Yoncheva – November 21, 2020

...Accompaniment in 2009. He served as artistic director of the 2011 Leeds Lieder Festival and was awarded an OBE in the 2016 New Year’s Honours. https://www.metopera.org Met Stars Live in Concert Opera’s greatest stars perform in a groundbreaking new series of pay-per-view recitals in striking locations around the globe, each live via satellite and shot with multiple cameras. While the Metropolitan Opera House remains dark because of the ongoing hea...
Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato – September 12, 2020

...tic arias and songs, live from live from a unique venue—the converted Jahrhunderthalle on the northern Rhine, an imposing former industrial pavilion that has in recent years been used for theatrical events. DiDonato will be accompanied by Carrie-Ann Matheson on piano and the chamber ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro. The Program “Addio Roma” From Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea Didon’s Final Scene From Berlioz’s Les Troyens “Ich bin der Welt abhanden...
Sonya Yoncheva

Sonya Yoncheva in Germany – February 27, 2021

...los, Stephana in Giordano’s Siberia, Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Antonia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro. At the Met, she has thrilled audiences as Desdemona in Otello, Mimì in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto (the role of her celebrated 2013 debut), and the title roles of Iolanta, Luisa Miller, and Tosca. In recent seasons, she has appeared at Staatsoper Berlin, the Paris Opera, La Scala, the B...
Daniil Trifonov

Daniil Trifonov – February 23, 2020 Maison Symphonique

...rformances are a perpetual source of awe. “He has everything and more … tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that,” marveled pianist Martha Argerich. Trifonov recently added a first Grammy Award to his already considerable string of honors, winning Best Instrumental Solo Album of 2018 with Transcendental, a Liszt collection that marked his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. As The Times of Londo...
Bryn Terfel

Bryn Terfel in Wales – December 12, 2020

...ed with multiple Grammy, Classical Brit, and Gramophone Awards; was made a Commander of the British Empire for his services to opera in 2003; was awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music in 2006; and received a knighthood for his service to music in 2017. https://www.metopera.org Met Stars Live in Concert Opera’s greatest stars perform in a groundbreaking new series of pay-per-view recitals in striking locations around the globe, each live via satellit...
Dalia Stasevska

Northern Lights: Dalia Stasevska Conducts – April 27 to May 11, 2021

...sition at the Tampere Conservatoire and conducting at the Sibelius Academy under Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam. Bryan Cheng, cello The first cellist to win the Grand Prize of the OSM Competition (2019), and first-ever Canadian laureate of the prestigious Paulo International Cello Competition, at age 22 Bryan Cheng has secured a distinctive place in the world of classical music. He made his solo debut at age 10 with the Orchestre de chambre I Mus...
Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak

Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak – August 16

...sanna in Le Nozze di Figaro. She made her Met debut in 2004 as Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and has returned in productions of La Traviata, Carmen, Pagliacci, L’Elisir d’Amore, Hansel and Gretel, Rigoletto, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. In recent seasons, she has also performed at Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Paris Opera, the Vienna State Opera, StaatsoperBerlin, the Bavarian State Opera, and in Barcelona, Hannover, Verona, Na...
Jan Lisiecki

Jan Lisiecki – May 4, Theatre Maisonneuve

Pro Musica – Série Pierre-Roland presents Jan Lisiecki The New York Times describes Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki as “a pianist who makes every note count,” while the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation goes even further, describing him as “one of the most sensational young artists to emerge in Canada in the past decade,” no less. He won at age 14 the OSM Standard Life Competition which launched his career. The next year, he became a Deutsche Gramm...