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In Toronto alone, three major operas are in production that not only champion Black artists, but put Blackness front and centre

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on ...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 2 ...

MONTREAL — When the opera "La Flambeau" premieres next week in Montreal, Black performers will be front and centre in an artistic medium where they have historically been under-represented.

When the opera La Flambeau premieres next week in Montreal, Black performers will be front and centre in an artistic medium where they have historically been under-represented.

MONTREAL - When the opera "La Flambeau" premieres next week in Montreal, Black performers will be front and centre in an artistic medium where they have historically been under-represented.

When 44-year-old Haitian-Canadian composer David Bontemps was told in the summer of 2020 that the Orchestre classique de Montréal (OCM), then led by the late Boris Brott, wanted to produce

It's called "La Flambeau" on purpose - an intentional grammatical error. And it was the first four syllables in the play - 'res publica' - that inspired composer David Bontemps to write his first opera. The poet and playwright, Faubert Bolivar, an old friend from law school, also became a librettist. Set in the home country of both artists, Haiti, the work tells a universal story of privilege, power and revenge...the right dose of drama for the theatrical tradition. A ...

Geneviève Leclair and Alain Trudel will be at the helm of the Orchestre Classique de Montréal (OCM) when it resumes its residence at Salle Pierre-Mercure on October 18.

Tulsa Opera stands up to composer Daniel Bernard Roumain—and its concert commemorating the city’s massacre shines in his absence.