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...
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...