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Whimsical, Magical, Campy: Images and Costume Drawings For The Magic Flute at the COC

Photo Credit: © 2010 Myung Hee Cho - Courtesy of Canadian Opera Company   Director Diane Paulus, who has worked on such varied stage works as David Lynch's Lost Highway, The Donkey Show, Il Ritorno D'Ulisse in Patria,...

Talk Back: DKNY Spring 2011 Goes Live

What could be better than cozying up on the couch on a cold January evening to watch and chat about the chic, DKNY Spring 2011 fashion show? Ok, maybe watching Dmitri Hvorostovsky bring down the house...

Here it is: Canadian Opera Company 2011-2012

Now for the really interesting information. In case you have missed it, Canadian Opera Company announced its 2011-2012 season on Wednesday morning during a very elegant reception at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, Four Seasons Centre...

Have a wonderful holiday!

Hi everyone, Since the holidays are here I want thank you for reading Art Life and Stilettos, and for making the arts, especially opera, a part of your daily life. Please watch the attached clip, which I'm...

Why are audiences turned off by modern classical music?

Why are audiences turned off by modern classical music? Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise, has written an engaging article in the Guardian exploring some contributing factors to the public’s general distaste for...

La Fleming Goes Indie on The TSO

The People's Diva has slowly been taking on fewer and fewer operatic engagements in fewer houses around the world. Is her voice still gorgeous? Yes. Is her vocal style idiosyncratic? Pretty sure. Is she an indie...

Aida is calling, will you answer?

How many times have you watched an opera and wanted desperately to tell the director what you really thought about the production? Or perhaps you had a question about how the soprano managed to pull...

Listen to Verdi’s Don Carlo, Live at The Met

Tonight at 7:00 p.m. you can listen to The Metropolitan Opera's opening night production of Verdi's opera Don Carlo, sung in Italian. “I think Don Carlo is the quintessential Verdi opera…Not one of these characters is prepared...

The Simpsons Turn Twenty-Three. Let’s celebrate!

The Simpsons fans, have no fear. Your favourite cartoon family has been renewed for its 23rd season. That means that by the end of next season The Simpsons will have produced 515 episodes. As always, many...

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Ciao Toronto, Hello Hollywood

As the opera season winds down in Toronto, it seems appropriate for Art LIfe and Stilettos to go on a well-deserved vacation. I'm flying...

Sasha Djihanian wins grand prize at the COC

Representing Canada at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2011 (above video) Here is a bit of background on the soprano who won over the jury...

Tonight: Listen Live to Ariadne auf Naxos

The Met Opera is live streaming their much-lauded production of Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. Love it! Thanks Met Opera for keeping up this fantastic...

Ariadne auf Naxos at The Met

With Maestro James Levine cancelling performances (including his beloved Walküre, though that was due to illness NOT persistent back problems), pulling out of Tanglewood...