One of the breakout stars of City Opera’s new CHINATOWN was bass Matthew Li in the role of Xon Pon. He dazzled audiences and critics, for very good reason. A master of new music, he is also apprentice to the great canon. Here he is, just one year ago in an excerpt from Don Giovanni. […]
Our great friend, the late conductor Bramwell Tovey, had a long and deep ambition: to conduct at the famous BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. He achieved this in the summer of 2019, just weeks after concluding a very difficult course of radiation meant to treat his cancer, Ewing’s Sarcoma. With his usual conviction […]
Who says hockey isn’t musical? Our national anthem has, since Roger Doucet and the Montréal Canadiens and his first performance at the Forum on 13 October 1970, changed. Originally, it ended by falling to the sub-tonic and rising by half-step to the tonic and its traditional conclusion. So great was Doucet’s rendition, and so […]
The composer at the piano, with members of Symphony Nova Scotia, in a work of fusion, sounding semi-improvised and rhapsodic, direct and endlessly imaginative.
Deeply admired in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for her compassionate community work, a decade ago Sharon Kravitz took a degree in documentary filmmaking at Capilano University. Her remarkably prescient ‘Dear Vancouver’ was the result. It remains alert and pointed today.
Born in Terrace BC, Crystal Pite has led and worked at Ballet BC, Paris Opera Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Sadler’s Wells, and the Electric Company Theatre. She has a stunning gift for eloquence in dance. Here, REVISOR, from her work with Jonathon Young at Kidd Pivot.
Born in Cranbrook BC, Brent Carver was one of Canada’s most gifted performers, as at home on the stage of the Cultch as at Stratford as on Broadway. As actor, singer, performance artist. As master of Shakespeare and of the avant-garde. Here he is, in one of his last stage shows. He has been […]
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