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Sweet goodness, my beloved, pierce me with your arrows

Songs of the Celestial Sirens, Toronto Consort, May 7, 2011

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DVD Review: King Arthur, Salzburg 2004

A Dramatick Opera in Five Acts by Henry Purcell. Libretto: John Dryden. Director: Jürgen Flimm, Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. In multiple singing roles: Barbara Bonney (soprano), Isabel Rey...

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My favourite Canadian girlfriends

Inspired by Sofi’s Canada Day list of Sexy Typewriter’s Top 14 Canadian Boyfriends, here’s my attempt at a List of Top Canadian Girlfriends. A work in progress.

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Femmes handle the Old Testament Handel

CD review---Handel: Streams of Pleasure. Karina Gauvin, Marie Nicole Lemieux, Il Complesso Barocco conducted by Alan Curtis. Naïve, 2011.

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The Canadian Opera Company 2012/13 season highlights

No baroque this year. (On the upside, no Gluck and no Puccini either.)

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Alcina, Morgana and Bradamante in conversation

It's been tough eliminating of a lot of interesting material to fit the Xtra! piece on Alcina into 500 words. So for true Alcina afficionados, here is the longer, Q&A version of our conversation.

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L’Oracolo in Messenia è proprio un miracolo

Vivaldi - L’Oracolo in Messenia - Fabio Biondi conducts Europa Galante, EMI/Virgin/Wiener Konzerthaus, 2012. An embarrassment of riches, this recording: loads of gorgeous, unusual arias bridged by...

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Amore e morte dell’amore CD

AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina Ensemble Claudiana Dir. Luca Pianca. Naïve, fall 2013.

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Q&A: Heather Flemming, Contralto

This is how I first heard of Heather Flemming: the Belgian public radio station has been live-commenting the Queen Elisabeth singing competition back in May (Camille de Rijck was behind the Musiq3...

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Ariodante by Richard Jones

Richard Jones’s Ariodante (COC/DNO/Aix/LOC) is a very good production of a very feeble opera. It pains me to say this about a Handel opera that contains two of the best mezzo arias of all time, and a...

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The Coronation will not proceed

Alas. Marie Nicole Lemieux Nerone will not make it to stage this June.  

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