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,...
View on Bachtrack “And the moon is so near.” My notes, taken in darkness, have magically disappeared. It turns out that my pen doesn’t work on slightly damp paper. It seems I had lost my critic’s sangfroid and was unable to hold back the tears at Rodolfo’s confession...
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...
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. . . 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...
By Rose Dodd, 11 September 2022 Walking into the auditorium for Dutch National Opera’s revival of Robert Carsen’s 2009 production of Carmen there was much bustling as people claimed their seats. Glancing towards the stage gave the appearance of ‘theatre in the round’ with a wall of red plastic seating where other audience...
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...
. . . Jordan de Souza conducts the London Philharmonic, and it’s as if all the colour that has been leached from the stage is brimming over the edge of the pit. It’s not only love that is defiant in the face of death, but music,...
The New York Times (Jan 18, 2018)A.J. Goldmann With three full-time opera houses, seven major symphony orchestras and numerous world-class choirs, all lavishly funded by the German government, Berlin may well be the most musically active city on earth. It has also reached a moment of...