By Stephen Cera SALZBURG, AUSTRIA – Imagine being a Mozart-lover and hearing live performances of his music by some of his most accomplished interpreters… at an annual festival in the composer’s scenic hometown nestled in the Austrian Alps. Then imagine those performan...
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I'm looking forward to Friday, January 11, at 8:00 p.m. in Heliconian Hall in Toronto's Yorkville district.... that evening at the piano, I'll partner Theo Lebow, a young tenor with the Frankfurt Opera in Germany. We will perform Beethoven's pioneering song cycle, An die ferne...
by Stephen Cera Theo Lebow and Alisa Jordheim in The Barber of Seville photo: Chris McKenzie BOSTON – The popular notion of opera as a grandiose entertainment, performed by famous singers in large theaters for well-heeled patrons, was turned on its head here ...
by Stephen Cera L. to R.: Tony Siqi Yun (1st Prize), Yunchan Lim (3rd Prize), Kai-Min Chang (2nd Prize) photo: Roger Mastroianni OBERLIN, OHIO -- My colleague, Joseph Horowitz, once termed international piano competitions “The Ivory Trade.” Iv...
by Stephen Cera Co-Artistic Directors, pianists Boris Zarankin and Inna Perkis Very little was “off” at the Off Centre Music Salon concert Sunday afternoon (June 17) in Toronto, except air conditioning in Trinity St. Paul’s Centre. This enterprising serie...
by Stephen Cera Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Music has been called “the only cheap and unpunished rapture on earth” -- but for those who don’t respond to music there is little or no use. For others, it’s next to impossible to imagine life without i...
by Stephen Cera above: portrait of Beethoven (1823) by Ferdinand Waldmüller After recently experiencing live performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and his late Quartet in c-sharp minor, in the acoustical splendor of Toronto's Koerner Hall, I thought m...
by Stephen Cera WASHINGTON – Both this city and New York were my destinations last week for musical theater. Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” which I attended at the Kennedy Center Opera House, seems destined to be a "problem-child" of the Bern...
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