Notes Par/by Crystal Chan & Joseph K. So
/ March 18, 2011
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Queen Elisabeth Competition
Candidates Announced
The 2011 candidates that made it through
the first round of this year's Queen Elisabeth Competition, vocal
category, included nine Canadians: Betty Allison - Soprano, Catherine
Daniel - Mezzo-soprano, Irina de Baghy - Mezzo-soprano, Sasha Djihanian
- Soprano, Leah Gordon - Soprano, Sarah Marie Kramer - Soprano, Geneviève
Lévesque - Mezzo-soprano, Meghan Lindsay - Soprano, and Isabelle Nicolas
- Soprano. The QEC is one of the world's most prestigious musical competitions.
CC
Canadians in the Finals
of European Opera Directing Prize
A team of Canadian artists—Joel Ivany,
Camellia Koo and Jason Hand, all from Toronto—have been chosen to
compete with teams from France, Italy and the UK in the Finals of the
sixth European Opera Directing Prize, which will take place at the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden in London on March 4-6. A total of 181
submissions were accepted into the competition, with the majority coming
from Germany (47), Italy (34), USA (22), and France (17). Each team
submitted a directorial and design concept for Bellini's I Capuleti
e i Montecchi. The winning team will be chosen for the originality
of its concept, as well as its suitability to the stages of the northern
Italian opera houses (Bescia, Como, Pavia, and Verona) where the opera
will be performed in the coming season. The competition is held every
two years by the Camerata Nuova e.V. in Wiesbaden in cooperation with
Opera Europa. The upper age limit of candidates is 35. Many of the winners
in recent years are now working successfully as directors and set
and costume designers. Three prizes will be awarded (15,000, 10,000
and 5,000 Euros). The winning ceremony will take place in Wiesbaden
on March 13. jks
Une nouvelle entente
de soutien des arts à Montréal
Plus de 1 500 000 $ seront investis à
Montréal pour soutenir la création, l’innovation et la diversité
des pratiques artistiques. Le Conseil des arts de Montréal, le Conseil
des arts et des lettres du Québec, la Conférence régionale des élus
de Montréal et le Forum jeunesse de l’île de Montréal signent une
nouvelle entente de partenariat. Grâce à cette entente, en vigueur
jusqu’en 2013, les partenaires effectueront des investissements totalisant
plus de 1 500 000 $, soit une bonification de près de 40 % par rapport
à la précédente entente. Les deux grands axes de l’entente sont
:
» Outiller la relève artistique
montréalaise 2011-2013. En cohérence avec la démarche de partenariat
ORAM entreprise depuis 2005, les partenaires engagent une somme totale
de 974 000 $ pour financer différentes mesures destinées à répondre
aux besoins des organismes artistiques et aux artistes de la relève.
Consolidation, réseautage, formations, échanges d’information, transferts
d’expériences, activités d’intégration et stages de travail sont
les différentes actions qui s’inscrivent dans l’un ou l’autre
des quatre volets de cet axe.
» La création et l’innovation
2011-2013. Pour aider Montréal à continuer de se démarquer par l'originalité
des œuvres et le dynamisme de ses artistes, les partenaires investissent
580 000 $ pour soutenir la création, l’innovation et la diversité
des pratiques artistiques professionnelles. À cette somme s’ajoute
l’engagement financier du CALQ au Fonds Montréal pour les artistes
et écrivains professionnels autochtones.
Canadian Music Week
The 29th annual Canadian Music Week will
take place in Toronto from March 9th to 13th. Over 800 music groups
will be showcased, and the festival also features an industry convention
focusing on sound recording, new media and broadcasting. There will
also be a film festival and the handing out of the Canadian Music and
Broadcast Industry Awards, Canadian Radio Music Awards, Crystal Awards,
and The Indie Awards. CC
Genie awards on March
10
The 31st Annual Genie Awards for Canadian
filmmaking will take place on March 10. Including well-known movies
and plenty of Quebec content, nominees for best picture include Barney's
Version and Incendies, of which the former has already won
a Golden Globe and the latter has been nominated for an Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film (at press time, the Oscar results had not
yet been announced. The Oscars took place on February 27th). CC
Opera in 3D
After audiences were wowed by the technological
innovations in Robert Lepage’s first Met Ring Cycle opera last year—a
production which included, among other things, a high-tech set and multiple
projections—the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-2013 season production
of Siegfried, also directed by Robert Lepage,
will go one step further and feature 3D projections in its staging.
Technology created by Montreal company Réalisations will enable the
3D effects to be seen by audience members without the aid of special
glasses. Forget a high-tech, revolving set; now, the singer might walk
through no set at all, but instead have the walls of a castle projected
in three dimensions around them. 3D in opera is not unique to the Met.
Across the pond, the English National opera is screening its cinema
version of Lucrezia Borgia live in 3D, and similarly, the Royal
Opera House will screen a pre-recorded 3D version of its Carmen.
CC
Remote Music Examinations
Canada's first remote musical examination
took place on February 17th. A Conservatory Canada examiner in London,
Ontario adjudicated the "E-Exam" of three young piano students
in Kanata, Ontario through her laptop computer. CC
Date limite : CONCOURS
DE MUSIQUE CLASSIQUE DU CHŒUR DE LA MONTAGNE
Les jeunes musiciens ont jusqu’au 11
mars 2011 pour s’inscrire au Concours de musique classique du Chœur
de la montagne qui se déroulera les 2 et 3 avril 2011. Les lauréats
se partageront des bourses d’une valeur totale de 3000 $ et auront
la chance d’interpréter leurs plus belles pages musicales au Moulin
seigneurial de Mont-Saint-Hilaire et en première partie du concert
« Chants d’amour » offert par le Chœur de la Montagne les 27 et
29 mai 2011. www.choeurdelamontagne.com | 
