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By Joshua Chong Staff Reporter Toronto Star One night, some two decades ago, made a lasting impression on maestro Jordan de Souza and fundamentally changed his relationship with music. It was a performance of Richard Wagner’s final “Ring Cycle” opera, the epic “Götterdämmerung,” at the Canadian Opera Company (COC). De Souza,...

CLASSICAL 96.3 Hard to believe, but the 2023/24 classical music and opera seasons are about to begin. Puccini’s La Bohème will be staged with the Canadian Opera Company in the coming weeks, so Mark Wigmore welcomed Toronto-born Music Director Jordan de Souza to The Oasis. Jordan returns home for this beloved production...

Norman Lebrecht: Dortumund’s new General Music Director, in charge of both the opera house and philharmonic orchestra, is to be Jordan de Souza. A Canadian of Asian origin, de Souza, 34, put in four years as staff conductor at Berlin’s Komische Oper, guesting widely across the...

. . . Jordan D’Souza directed the Seattle Symphony in a meticulously shaped, beautifully tinted and propulsive reading of Wagner’s Tristan. For a young conductor’s first take on this cornerstone of operatic history, d’Souza impressively drew myriad details and color from the score and contributed to...

I’ve been following de Souza’s career with interest for some years. It started off for the obvious reason that he was Goan-origin (which I learned via Goan Voice newsletter) but the more I read about him, listen to his music, and listen to him talk...