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Charles Pope Jr., Noted Canadian Critic, Dies At 69

Earl Arthur Love - June 21, 2016

By Earl Arthur Love

IN MEMORIAM – Charles Pope Jr. of Ottawa, Ontario, an elegant writer who was a longtime correspondent for Opera Canada and frequent contributor to ConcertoNet.com, died suddenly on May 31, 2016.

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Long Estranged, Dutoit, Montreal Reignite Old Fire

Earl Arthur Love - February 25, 2016

By Earl Arthur Love

MONTREAL — After slamming the door on the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in 2002, Charles Dutoit, who is 79, returned for the first time to conduct two concerts, and a brilliant Petrouchka recaptured their storied rapport.

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In Montreal’s Fine ‘Nabucco,’ Thoughts Fly To Curious Set

Earl Arthur Love - September 26, 2014

By Earl Arthur Love

MONTREAL – With a superb cast including Ukrainian soprano Tatiana Melnychenko in the mercilessly difficult role of Abigaille, Verdi's 'Nabucco' offered a powerful beginning to the opera season despite anachronisms and tired paint.

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Intimate Brahms From Bremen At Lanaudière Fest

Earl Arthur Love - August 13, 2014

By Earl Arthur Love

JOLIETTE, QUEBEC - In a bucolic setting some call "Tanglewood North," the small but first-rate Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi kicked off a final summer festival week of three visiting orchestras.

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Young Handel’s ‘Almira’ Shines at Boston Festival

Earl Arthur Love - June 14, 2013

By Earl Arthur Love

The most anticipated offering of this year’s bi-annual Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) was the North American debut of Handel’s rarely performed first opera, Almira. Composed when Handel was only 19, it premiered in Hamburg in 1705. Displaying an abundance of riches, the dazzling production flew by.

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Final musings on the San Francisco Ring – Monday, June 20, 2011

Earl Arthur Love - June 20, 2011

By Earl Love

Yesterday afternoon’s “Götterdämmerung” led me to reappraise somewhat Francesca Zambello’s feminist, ecological, anti-plutocratic staging of this “Ring”. Although I didn’t see any kids in the audience, it struck me that some of the corporate types (many of whom were probably first timers judging from their whoops of delight over the comic parts) just might get the intention behind the video barrage of filthy oil refineries, smog, sewer sludge and polluted water bodies

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