Monthly Archives: October 2011

Opera Atelier’s DON GIOVANNI reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Saturday, October 29, Elgin Theatre, Toronto. Opera Atelier’s 26th season opener, Mozart’s, Don Giovanni,  is a lot of fun. Director Marshall Pynkoski sees it not as a “dark, psychological drama featuring a sexually immature, aging lothario.” It’s more about (as … Continue reading

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Amici Ensemble explores “La Bonne Cuisine” reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Oct. 22, 2011, Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto. Shakespeare thought to combine food with music so he wrote the line, ”If music be the food of love, play on,” and put it in the mouth of the love-starved Duke of Milan. … Continue reading

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Mariinsky Orchestra, Gergiev, Toradze at Roy Thomson Hall reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Friday, October 21, Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto. Stravinsky’s balletic score, The Firebird (1919), begins in the spooky domain of an ogre—Kastchei the Deathless. Strings tremble like a thready pulse over the metallic hum of the brass; flutey twitter of birdsong … Continue reading

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