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2021-06-27 22:47:48
Tomoko Omura is one of the most distinctive and purposeful violinists in jazz. Her album Branches Vol. 1 is streaming at Bandcamp. It’s refreshingly uncluttered, tuneful and picturesque, especially when it comes to the nocturnes. She opens it with a radical reinvention of Moonlight in Vermont. Just as soon as Omura’s theme threatens to rise […]
2021-06-08 18:53:13
This blog called violinist Tomoko Omura‘s 2020 album Branches “refreshingly uncluttered, tuneful and picturesque, especially when it comes to the nocturnes.” On her newly released second volume – streaming at Bandcamp – she takes both that saturnine ambience and picturesque sensibility to the next level. The band includes pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Pablo Menares, drummer […]
2021-01-29 04:22:09
In recent years, opera companies have had no problem with singers of colour taking the roles of people of colour. In 2008, for example, the Opéra de Montréal welcomed Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura to the stage as the geisha Cio-Cio San. A few years later, in 2013, in a production by the Opéra de Québec, [...]
2017-11-21 00:21:39
Cio-Cio San and Lieutenant Pinkerton have a tete-a-tete on their wedding night. Manitoba Opera's production of Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' runs at the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg Nov. 18, 21 and 24. The cost-sharing production means a casting step up and local audiences are treated to two international sopranos: Hiromi Omura as the titular Madama Butterfly and mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen as Suziki, her confidant and maid.
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