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Opera Pub back at the Tranzac

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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. Continue reading →

Garden of Vanished Pleasures

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Tim Albery’s show; Garden of Vanished Pleasures, about Derek Jarman and his Kent coast garden was supposed to figure in Soundstreams 2020/21 season and we know what happened to that!  So, it was reengineered as a film and streamed in September of 2021.  I reviewed  it at some length for Opera Canada.  Now director Tim Albery has recreated it as a live show at the Berkeley Street Theatre.

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IRCPA Ten Singing Stars concert

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The concert for the eleven singers taking part in this year’s IRCPA Encounter programme was broadcast on 96.3 FM on Friday evening.  It was also webcast on Youtube.  Here’s the link.   Anyway here’s a quick rundown on the performances.

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The 2021 IRCPA Encounter / Singing Stars Participants Front row, from left: Camila Montefusco, Hillary Tufford, Ana Toumine, Ryan McDonald, Ross Mortimer Back row, from left: Ryan Nauta, Jaclyn Grossman, Jocelyn Fralick, Melissa Danis, Rachel Miller Not shown Nicholas Gryniewski

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