Ludwig Van Toronto By: Joseph So Sitting in the opera house last Friday on the opening night of La Boheme, hearing the lovely sounds coming from the stage and the pit, I kept getting a warm and fuzzy feeling. Diehard opera fans will know that feeling...
CATHERINE KUSTANCZY: La Bohème is a story of love, loss and the hard-won wisdom that comes through the experience of both. Based on the semi-autobiographical Scènes de la vie de bohème (Scenes of Bohemian Life) by French writer Henri Murger (published in 1851), the opera explores the life...
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...
. . . . Conductor Jordan de Souza is a 35-year-old Canadian prodigy. He has already moved through career phases as a virtuoso organist and a Baroque choral conductor, and now heads the prestigious Komische Oper Berlin and globetrots as an opera conductor. His crisp...
From the second bar of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” in the hands of conductor Jordan De Souza, it was clear Seattle Opera’s production (which opened Saturday night and runs through Oct. 29) would be sonically something special. Read Full Review ...
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...
. . .Jordan de Souza dashed through the early scenes with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, infusing the horseplay then (and at the top of Act four) with verve, offering a highly responsive, sparkling commentary from the pit. The following scenes were handled with tenderness, with...
. . . Canadian conductor Jordan de Souza kept the drama unfolding at a pace with the London Philharmonic Orchestra giving Puccini’s glorious melodies and orchestrations a sense of edge and urgency that can sometimes be subservient to the emotion. The orchestra was matched by...
