Maeve Palmer

I finally made it to AtG’s Opera Pub for the first time in a long time.  Ladst couple of times I went it was at the Drake and that just felt so wrong!  It’s now at the Tranzac which just makes all kinds of sense.  It’s a decent size, it has a pretty good bar and it’s easily accessible on the the TTC.  And it feels like a pub, not the lobby of a five star hotel.  Also it has lots of AtG history including the original La Bohème (2011) and the 2017 remount.  Stay there please AtG.

Hillary Tufford

Monday night’s line up was strong.  The singers were soprano Maeve Palmer, mezzo Hillary Tufford and tenor Asitha Tennekoon with Spencer Kryzanowski at the piano.  Two sets of opera and one of more popular material.  The world’s best known duet (thanks to BA), and Hillary morphing from boy-toy (“Wie du warst! Wie du bist”) to man-eater (“Habanera” with audience participation).  Did Maeve throw  a couple of ornaments from the sean-nós tradition into The Last Rose of Summer?  I thought so.  Excellent tenoring from Asitha as usual and Spencer (on his third gig of the day) handled MC duties as well as acoompaniment.

Asitha Tennekoon

They are back on June 22nd for the Pride edition.