Gaïa and Phœbus Choirs Join Oktoecho for ‘Voix Nordiques’

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(Credit : Damian Siqueiros) The Gaïa and Phœbus choirs will join the Oktoecho ensemble for “Voix nordiques” on Feb. 21, 2026 at the Church of Oka. The program, is led by Roseline Blain, conducting Gaïa and Phœbus, and Katia Makdissi-Warren, leading Oktoecho Together, and explores musical expressions of choral and vocal traditions shaped by geography, climate, and cultural exchange across {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: We Are The Lucky Ones

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(Photo credit: Koen Broos) Over the past twenty years or so, there have been plenty of programs on television, radio and the internet devoted to oral history, in which everyday people recall major and minor events along with the social and economic conditions from their own past to create an anecdotal montage that can be accessed by current and future {…}

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René Barbera, Austrine Stundyte, Tomasz Konieczny & Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera René Barbera, Roman Burdenko, Aigul Khismatullina, Alexander Köpeczi, and Maya Gour Star in a revival of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Yi-Chen Lin conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-29, 2024 Britten’s “Peter Grimes” will get a new production by Barbora Horáková. Lorenzo Viotti conducts a cast that includes Issachah Savage, Johanni van Oostrum, and {…}

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Société de musique contemporaine du Québec Announces Concerts for Montreal/New Musics Festival 2023

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Image: Geneviève Bigué The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) has announced a series of concerts for the 11th edition of Montreal/New Musics (MNM) international festival. Over ten days, from Feb 23 to March 5, 2023, MNM will showcase contemporary music under the 2023 theme of Music and Spirituality. “Music and Spirituality is broad and open, evoking the search {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q&A: Co-Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera Jason Cady on EiO’s Serial Opera Podcast ‘Aqua Net and Funyuns’

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Jason Cady, co-artistic director of the New York City-based “fun and fearless opera collective,” Experiments in Opera (EiO), has been, well, experimenting in fun(yun) and fearless ways with a new podcast opera, “Aqua Net and Funyuns,” released in December 2020. Aqua Net is, of course, the hairspray preferred by 99 percent of Hair Band rockers in the 1980s and those {…}

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Gaïa and Phœbus Choirs Join Oktoecho for ‘Voix Nordiques’

Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: We Are The Lucky Ones

René Barbera, Austrine Stundyte, Tomasz Konieczny & Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2024-25 Season

Société de musique contemporaine du Québec Announces Concerts for Montreal/New Musics Festival 2023

Q&A: Co-Artistic Director of Experiments in Opera Jason Cady on EiO’s Serial Opera Podcast ‘Aqua Net and Funyuns’