Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2020: MUSIC Following the holiday season, the Montreal concert scene is starting to heat up again. Highlights include the only Canadian stop of famed American musician and conductor Damien Sneed’s North American tour of We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which […]
Towering lyric bass Arthur Woodley sang in an Italian rock band in Italy before beginning his professional opera career in October 1979 with his debut at the New York City Opera, with his role in Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” at Carnegie Hall. Born in New York City in 1949 and raised in St. Croix, US Virgin […]
American opera singer Soloman Howard is making a difference both on and off the stage. The Anti-Defamation League presented him with their “Making a Difference Award” in 2016 for raising awareness of voting rights and for bringing opera into the larger community, and Howard has also been blazing a trail on stages around the world […]
Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for January 2017: The year kicks off with the Broadway touring production of the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots which headlines Salle Wilfred-Pelletier from Jan. 3 to 8. After winning Best Original Score at the 2013 Tony Awards, Cyndi Lauper told me, “I didn’t stop to think I was the first woman to win that award […]
The new General Director of the Opéra de Montréal, Patrick Corrigan, fresh from a 20-year stint at the Pacific Opera Victoria where he was CEO, is thrilled to be back in his hometown of Montreal. “I’m the kind of guy who stands outside Place des Arts and dreams of being inside,” says the proudly bilingual […]
The Opéra de Montréal presents the Richard Strauss one-act opera Elektra with superstar conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the helm, at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of Place des Arts, with American soprano and “down-to-earth diva” Lise Lindstrom making her company debut as Elektra. Curtains Up attended a recent OdeM rehearsal for Elektra where Lindstrom sat down for a fun and frank Q&A.
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett L’Opéra de Montréal winds down its 35th season with Silent Night, the 2012 Pulitzer-winning two-act opera by renowned American composer Kevin Puts and prolific American librettist Mark Campbell. Based on the 2005 film Joyeux Noël by director Christian Carion, the work depicts the historic and miraculous truce between French, German, and Scottish soldiers on Christmas […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett Internationally-acclaimed sopranos Measha Brueggergosman and Galina Shesterneva, Italian baritone Paolo Gavanelli and conductor Paul Nadler are just some of the stars cast in productions of L’ Opéra de Montréal’s 2013-2014 season. The upcoming season will open on Sept 21 with a four-night run of the Opéra de Montréal […]