Toronto opera director Tom Diamond is raising the curtain on a stunningly beautiful new production of Handel’s Xerxes at Indiana University on Friday night — and the first two performances will be streamed online.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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The cast is made up of students from the Jacobs School of Music’s excellent opera programme — but the staging is all professional. The music itself is gorgeous; Handel at his best. And judging from the photos from the tech rehearsal earlier this week, full of all sorts of eye candy.
You can find all the details here. Streaming will take place here at 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday and Saturday.
Here is the creative team introducing the production:
John Terauds
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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