by Stephen Cera TORONTO – Chinese pianist Yuja Wang is a true phenomenon. Her Sunday afternoon (May 13) recital in Koerner Hall was my first “live” encounter with the 31-year-old artist who is setting the music world on fire. More than anyone else, she reminds me...
Bel canto opera has never quite been essential to my metabolism...though recently I attended the new Canadian Opera Company production of Donizetti's "Anna Bolena" in the acoustically superb (and purpose-built) Toronto opera house ... directed by Stephen Lawless (UK) and starring...
Stephen Cera TORONTO – The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra closed its season Sunday afternoon with Beethoven on period instruments. It was the last of four performances of this program and nearly filled 1,100-seat Koerner Hall. The concert was guest-conducted ...
TORONTO – Anton Kuerti has been an adopted musical treasure in Canada since moving here from Cleveland in 1965 to protest the Vietnam War. He had studied with Rudolf Serkin and Mieczylaw Horszowski at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, and before that with Arthur ...
by Stephen Cera I recently returned from a 12-day musical journey to three European cities: Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin. It began with a visit to Frankfurt, Germany, to hear my young friend, tenor Theo Lebow, sing the title role in Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress w...
During the second half of January, I de-camped to New York, where I partook in a musical feast: a complete cycle of the nine Bruckner Symphonies, performed in Carnegie Hall by the Berlin Staatskapelle, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. As a bonus, Barenboim – one of th...
SOME ARTISTS PRESENTED AT THE FORD CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS in Toronto during the tenure of STEPHEN CERA as Artistic Director –Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields –Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano –Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano –Kathleen Battle, soprano –Beaux Arts...
Remembering The Late, Great Glenn Gould Stephen Cera Independent Music Professional Posted: 02/24/2016 3:17 pm EST Updated: 02/24/2016 3:59 pm EST The late Glenn Gould was a Canadian national treasure. One of the great pianists of the 20th century, his rare intellect, as...
Charles Rosen: Legacy of a Master Pianist Stephen Cera Independent Music Professional Posted: 01/25/2015 10:18 pm EST Updated: 03/28/2015 5:59 am EDT Weighed down with huge back catalogues and diminishing demand, classical record companies have been issuing a steady ...
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