Yesterday afternoon I found out quite by accident that baritone Curtis Sullivan (my best friend!) was performing in a musical as part of the Fringe Festival. How can he not have told me?! He must have known the show was wonderful – anyone would know this to be the case within the first few minutes. [...]
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The road to Rome…
Very soon Jeannette and I will be leaving for a week in Rome – something that I would love to be a yearly event for the rest of my life. This is our fifth trip to Rome in the past decade and I still have an overwhelming sense of anticipation. The city is so extraordinary, [...]
New York City Ballet
Jeannette and I have just returned from three glorious days in New York City where every moment of our day was spoken for between hearing auditions for Opera Atelier, spending hours in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and attending performances by New York City Ballet. For many years we have visited New York on [...]
Surrealism and the Ballets Russes
On Sunday, Jeannette and I had the pleasure of visiting the AGO to take in the Surrealist exhibition (Surreal Things | Dada | Remix). It is a fascinating, beautifully conceived exhibit which will be of particular interest to all dancers and dance enthusiasts. There are fabulous set and costume designs by some of the most [...]
Doors Open Performance May 24, 2009 1p.m.
I want to give all of our friends a heads up that the School of Atelier Ballet will once again be participating in Doors Open Toronto. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of this very popular event, out students will present a fully costumed performance of our Dance Through Time program. Dance Through Time features [...]
It’s a story of power lust, treachery, seduction, and murder…
We are delighted to have Libby Znaimer (VP News and Information Classical 96.3FM and AM740 and host of ”The Zoomer Report”) guest blogging for us. Read on. – Marshall It’s a story of power lust, treachery, seduction, and murder. But Opera Atelier’s The Coronation of Poppea offers more than your average operatic plot. The singing holds a [...]
Blog roll continues…
We received an impression from Jacqueline Myers, a technical writer who attended our dress. Enjoy. - Marshall Hello, my name is Jacqueline Myers and my sister and I were at the dress rehearsal of The Coronation of Poppea last night. First of all, can I just say it was absolutely GORGEOUS. I’m a huge fan of [...]
Thoughts before opening…
The night before last we had our dress rehearsal of Poppea and it was so marvelous it practically makes me nervous. Thank God we ran out of time and were unable to complete our curtain calls, otherwise I’d be afraid that tonight’s opening would be jinxed. What with 1000 high school students in the theatre, [...]
The wandelprobe and beyond…
Two days ago we finally had all of our Poppea performers under one roof for our Wandelprobe. We had already spent an enormous amount of rehearsal time with the very large continuo section which accompanies the singers but interestingly enough, the full orchestra never accompanies the vocalists. The full orchestra is used exclusively for the ritornellos [...]
Tafelmusik enters the scene…
This is an extremely exciting morning for all of us at Opera Atelier. After a week of continuo rehearsals, the entire orchestra has now arrived and Tafelmusik is as excited about playing Poppea as we are staging it. What makes this day doubly thrilling is that we are now able to show you excerpts of [...]