Sweet goodness, my beloved, pierce me with your arrows
Songs of the Celestial Sirens, Toronto Consort, May 7, 2011
View ArticleDVD 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...
View ArticleMy 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.
View ArticleFemmes 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.
View ArticleThe Canadian Opera Company 2012/13 season highlights
No baroque this year. (On the upside, no Gluck and no Puccini either.)
View ArticleAlcina, 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.
View ArticleL’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...
View ArticleAmore e morte dell’amore CD
AMORE E MORTE DELL’AMORE Roberta Invernizzi, Sonia Prina Ensemble Claudiana Dir. Luca Pianca. Naïve, fall 2013.
View ArticleQ&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...
View ArticleAriodante 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...
View ArticleThe Coronation will not proceed
Alas. Marie Nicole Lemieux Nerone will not make it to stage this June.
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