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2015-10-18 07:11:19
Ottawa pays $100 million for new facade, but not a cent to save its opera
Kevin Mallon, music director of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, has some cogent points to make about the sudden demise this week of Opera Lyra Ottawa: I am very sad about the fall of Opera Lyra. I was AD there last season and devised a creative season for this year- an innovative Barber of Seville with a young Canadian cast, a double-bill of Canadian operas with Toronto’s Essential Opera, a lively kids show called Operation Superpower, Fidelio in a cutting edge production and lastly a co-production with Thirteen Strings and the Studio of young artists at OL, of Haydn’s opera L’Isola Disabitata. This last, of course has us in panic mode, as I try to save this, the last concert in 13S’ 40th anniversary season. We will see if we can do a concert version of the opera. (OL has already sold tickets—which we hope 13Strings will be able […]
2015-09-28 14:14:56
[…] winning student will receive a $1,300 prize. That concert will also include violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou as soloist in music by composer John Corigliano from the film The Red Violin. “The prize is a way of supporting young composers, and the chance to hear their music performed is important,” Mallon says. Mallon is also excited about presenting Haydn’s opera L’isola Disabitata to close the season, May 27 to 29. The project is a co-presentation with Opera Lyra Ottawa. Mallon served as interim artistic director for Opera Lyra last season and helped plan the project. The opera, about two women and two men on a deserted island, will be sung by members of Opera Lyra’s training program for young artists. Mallon says the intimate piece is perfectly suited to the intimate church venue. “I wanted something for Opera Lyra to do outside of their big-scale productions at the NAC, so […]
2015-04-23 17:52:42
Citizen arts writers offer their best bets for the coming week. Classical: Steve Mazey The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra concludes its current season at the National Arts Centre Monday April 27 with the spectacular Verdi Requiem. Ottawa Choral Society director Jordan de Souza, the fast-rising young Canadian maestro with a busy international career, will conduct the 100-piece orchestra and the Choral Society. Soloists are soprano Michele Capalbo ( who starred in Opera Lyra Ottawa’s Tosca last season), bass-baritone Mark Steven Doss, tenor Adam Luther and mezzo-soprano Megan Latham. 8 p.m. Tickets start at $18.50 students; $30.75 seniors; $36 general. NAC box office or TicketMaster (1-888-991-2787). Theatre: Patrick Langston That old Canadian bugaboo, identity, is explored in Century Song, one of the first shows in Ontario Scene’s theatre lineup. The world premiere by Toronto’s Volcano Theatre at The Gladstone April 29-30 mixes song (soprano Neema Bickersteth) dance and projection as it combs over […]
2015-04-22 16:32:32
[…] material inside out, so you’re in a position to help lead the musicians,” de Souza says. “It’s about the musicians and the music first. I see my primary job as making myself redundant, and to get the musicians to feel the music together, and to find that centred place where I can be one step ahead of everything that needs to happen.” The vocal soloists for Monday’s performance are soprano Michele Capalbo (who starred in Opera Lyra Ottawa’s Tosca last season), bass-baritone Mark Steven Doss, tenor Adam Luther and mezzo-soprano Megan Latham. “They’re a remarkable group, four sensitive musicians who I think will work very well together,” he says. Because De Souza’s conducting career is in its early years, he says he is conducting many major works for the first time, including the Requiem, a piece he says “was immediately on my bucket list. “The sheer volume of colour that […]
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