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COC PREMIERE OF SEMELE OFFERS A FEAST FOR THE EYES AND EARS WITH EAST-MEETS-WEST DYNAMISM, DIRECTED BY FAMED ARTIST ZHANG HUANContinues until May 26, 2012at the Four Seasons Centre, TorontoToronto – The Canadian Opera Company

© 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. The Vancouver Opera ends it season with a new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, which is possibly the best production I’ve seen put on by the Vancouver Opera to date. Talk about [...]

From a media release:CANADIAN PREMIERE, NEW PRODUCTION AND DEBUT APPEARANCES MAKE UP COC’S DOUBLE BILL OF A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY AND GIANNI SCHICCHIApril 26 to May 25, 2012at the Four Seasons Centre for the Arts, TorontoToronto – The Canadian Opera…

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coc presents offenbach’s FANTASTICAL gothic romance, the tales of hoffmannContinues to May 14, 2012 Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company’s 2011/2012 spring season opens with one of the great operatic masterpieces of the 19t…

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. On Saturday I went to the Vancouver Opera’s opening night of The Barber of Seville. Now, I love going to the opera. Not only because I love the operatic voices, but also [...]

We now have yet another indication that neutrinos cannot travel faster than the speed of light after all, provided by a neighbor of the OPERA detector that set off the fuss in the first place.

This past weekend Rob Ford inadvertently created the hottest ticket of the year so far with Rob Ford: The Opera.

Rob Ford, the Opera MacMillan Theatre (80 Queens Park) January 22, 2:30 p.m. Rob Ford is very likely aware of the art form that is opera. That is, he’s likely aware of its existence and perhaps has even seen one performed. But he probably doesn’t know too much about the art form, and definitely hasn’t [...]

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The Sixth Season of The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD  Continues at Select Cineplex Entertainment Theatres withThe World Premiere of  THE ENCHANTED ISLANDSaturday, January 21 – 12:55 p.m. EST

Broadcast live via satell…

We chatted with one of Canada’s biggest opera stars to find out more about her special line of work.

I Want Your Job finds Torontonians who make a living doing exactly what they love to do, in any field, and for any salary, and asks them how they did it. Name: Adrianne Pieczonka Job: Opera singer There’s a certain stereotype associated with female opera singers—particularly soprano leads—that conjurs up a particular four-letter word that [...]

The writer of Rob Ford: The Opera—which is a real thing—tells us what he was thinking when he came up with the idea.

One could argue that Rob Ford’s year as mayor has had moments so dramatic that they could be described as operatic, but until now nobody has actually tried turning Ford’s story into a musical stage production. (There has been a non-musical, which was part of last summer’s Fringe Festival.) Yeah, that’s right: until now. On [...]

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Winter 2012 Classical Season at (le) Poisson RougeJuilliard String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Orion Quartet, Ursula Oppens,Nicola Benedetti, Danielle de Niese, Lara St. John, Barbara Hannigan,Adam Gyorgy, Ray Chen, Maya Beiser, Bri…

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. In March 2012, the Vancouver Opera will present Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, which is praised as the greatest comic opera of all time. While I admit my first blush with [...]

ikea used in set design for ‘the bell’ by gaetano donizetti at teatro carlo felice, genoaall images by marcello orselliYour partner is a huge Puccini fan but you prefer shopping to opera? Now you can window shop while he/she enjoys the opera. Stage car…

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Though Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, there is something refreshing about hearing it sung in operatic French. Luckily for Vancouverites, the Vancouver Opera is currently presenting Charles Gounod’s Roméo [...]

© 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt – Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. When the Vancouver Opera announced that they would be presenting West Side Story, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would it be a Broadway-style musical or would it be an opera? Turns [...]

From a release:Gotham Chamber Opera and Nico Muhly ConspireThursday, October 13, 2011 / 7:00 PMat (le) poisson rouge, NYCMusic of Muhly, Mozart, Purcell, Sibelius, Glass, and othersNEW YORK CITY – Gotham Chamber Opera is the nation’s foremost opera c…

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The Manhattan solo recital debut of Soprano Brandie Sutton.
October 1, 2011
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
Brandie Sutton, sopranoRamon Bryant-Braxton, piano
Works by Leslie Adams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Duke Ellington, George F …

From a release:

The Manhattan solo recital debut of Soprano Brandie Sutton.
October 1, 2011
Merkin Concert Hall, New York City
Brandie Sutton, sopranoRamon Bryant-Braxton, piano
Works by Leslie Adams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Duke Ellington, George F …

The findings from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) collaboration at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy show neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, and have many eager sources suggesting the possibility of overturning Einstein’s well-known theory of relativity. While the prospect is exciting, can just one result really upend a century of physics? It really depends on what happens next.

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The Opera Electric:
Vagabond Opera Brings High Drama Cabaret-Close on Sing For Your Lives! and on Tour, September and October 2011
Check all the dates at this link

It’s a dark and stormy night. The cabaret swirls smoke, eupho…