Last night, as part of this year’s digital Montréal Pride Festival, the Canadian Opera Company presented Hadrian for the first time since its world premiere in 2018.[READ MORE]

After taking a sojourn through Parsifal and The Marriage of Figaro, which were meant to be our fall operas this season, I wanted to offer something completely different for this week’s recommendation: Rameau: The Keyboard Works, recorded by the French pianist Marcelle Meyer and originally released in 1954.

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Given that I discussed Herbert von Karajan’s marvelous interpretation of Wagner’s Parsifal last week, it’s only natural that I turn my attention this week to the other fall opera in our 20/21 season: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.[READ MORE]