Author of the article: Lynn Saxberg
Publishing date: May 10, 2021 • 4 days ago • 2 minute read • The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is performing at this summer s hybrid edition of Chamberfest, July 22-Aug. 4. Photo by Carlos Javier Martinez Garate /jpg
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Heads up, music fans. A hybrid version of Chamberfest will bring some of Canada’s most accomplished chamber-music artists to Ottawa between July 22 and Aug. 4.
Monday’s program announcement is the first glimmer of hope for a return to in-person events this summer, although the plans have plenty of built-in safety precautions in case of another wave of the novel coronavirus that shut down last year’s festival season.
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Review: Vancouver Opera s choice of The Music Shop was a good one The Music Shop is a deliberate trifle, three-quarters of an hour of silliness, but elegantly written in a slyly evocative conservative modern idiom
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 14, 2021 • March 14, 2021 • 2 minute read • Amanda Weatherall was at her best as a demented Valkyrie in the Vancouver Opera s The Music Shop. Photo by Mike Southworth /jpg
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On Saturday evening Vancouver Opera offered the digital and Canadian premiere of Richard Wargo’s 1993 short comic opera The Music Shop, in a staging designed to showcase the talents of a sextet from this year’s crop of Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists.
Funny, you sang that: New Vancouver Opera production takes a comical, refreshing turn For most contemporary composers, serious is the name of the game. And that makes Richard Wargo’s The Music Shop, part of a trilogy of operas based on Chekhov, all the more special
Author of the article: David Gordon Duke
Publishing date: Mar 10, 2021 • March 10, 2021 • 3 minute read • Opera films as classic sitcom and don’t we all need a little comic pick me up these days? Photo by Courtesy, Autumn Coppaway
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