(Credit: © Pol Baril) Jean-François Lapointe is set to leave the Opéra de Québec as General and Artistic Director. According to Opera Magazine, Lapointe will leave on Jan. 31 due to “differences of artistic vision” with the board. Lapointe joined the company during the 2020-21 season succeeding Grégoire Legendre, who retired in December 2020. Lapointe is a baritone who has {…}
Opéra de Montréal announced $700,0000 dollars in financial support from the Ministére de la culture et dans communications Ambition numérique initiative. Earmarked for the creation of a digital incubator, the funds empower the company to serve the Québec opera sector with no less than seven recordings and webcast projects, and over 900 fees paid out to artists and artisans over {…}
The Opéra de Québec has announced the appointment of baritone Jean-François Lapointe as its new Artistic Director starting with the 2020-21 season. His first season will overlap with the current director Grégoire Legendre, who will retire in December 2020. This is a new direction for Lapointe’s distinguished career, as he has been active as a singer for the last 36 {…}
For this week’s top five picks we are sticking close to the East Coast with a number of revivals of popular operas and new productions. We also take a look at a Bernstein work that rarely gets a look. Trouble in Tahiti – Boston Lyric Opera As the Leonard Bernstein centennial continues, the BLO will showcase a production of his {…}