There a couple or three things coming up in Toronto that might be of interest to readers.
On Sunday 27th January at 2pm Russell Braun and Rihab Chaieb are giving a recital of German songs in the Glenn Gould Studio. Tickets are $60 but only $25 for under 25s.
The following evening Peter Sellars is giving a talk on his production of Tristan und Isolde at the Toronto Reference Library. This one is free but ticketed. Tickets are available from the TPL website.
And in free RBA noon concert news, on 24th January Sasha Djihanian and Cameron McPhail with pianists Timothy Cheung and Jenna Douglas are offering up Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées and Schumann’s Dichterliebe.
operaramblings 
So it’s gonna be La Boheme, fairly traditionally-looking, in the fall… Well.
Where did that surface?
Martin Knelman in the Star. They gave him that, and Hercules, in advance.
Makes one wonder why they bother with the embargo and, indeed, the press conference.
Yep. And this Boheme by a musical theatre director is making me apprehensive. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/1317606–canadian-opera-company-to-stage-productions-by-big-name-directors
I took a look. I can’t actually think of anything more boring than a trad Boheme though no doubt it will put bums on seats. Still Hercules should be interesting.
I stand corrected. I spoke with somebody in the know, and the COC absolutely did not leak anything to Knelman. He somehow managed to find it out. Since he’s pulled this last year too, I was pretty sure there was a leak. Apparently, no.