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Take Cecila Bartoli home as Clari

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:38:12 -0700 The opera isn't popular, the modern staging has been criticised, so what makes Clari so interesting? Cecilia Bartoli, of course. Here is a clear example of how the woman can...

Rose Marie: French Girl + English Boy = Canadian Love Story & Canadian Fashion courtesy of Wish Opera

Wish Opera Presents: Rose Marie: French Girl + English Boy = Canadian Love Story   Wish Opera collaborates with Canada’s creative elite to produce opera with fashion and style.  Partners in Rose Marie include Charles Pachter, renowned for...

Opera singer Wallis Giunta is the new face of McCaffrey Haute Couture

The COC Ensemble Studio's Wallis Giunta, a mezzo-soprano who has charmed critics with her creamy voice and charismatic stage presence, is collaborating with noted Canadian couturier McCaffrey Haute Couture. She will be featured modelling David McCaffrey's gowns in...

Gallery Hopping with the Google Art Project

I absolutely love visiting art galleries, and when I travel I make a point of exploring the artistic treasures hidden in local collections. On the days when my passport is not in hand, and the...

Chanteur du jour: Mark S. Doss

  Mark S. Doss performs Escamillo's Todeador Song at the Florentine Opera Company 75th Anniversary Concert and Celebrations May 23, 2009   *Updated Friday February 25, 2011 - Mark's signature role is Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust, not the title role...

Divine Diva – Diana Damrau

After The Hills there were the Kardashians, after the Kardashians? Diana Damrau. Our favourite German Coloratura officially has her own reality show. Well, actually more like a reality episode. The one hour documentary followed Damrau...

A pick me up for Riccardo Muti

Wishing Maestro Riccardo Muti all the best as he recovers from his recent surgeries due to a fall caused by fainting while at the podium during a rehearsal with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on February...

Ben Heppner withdraws from The Met’s Ring Cycle

What is going on with our beloved Ben Heppner? According to John Terauds at the Toronto Star, and the CBC our Canadian boy is withdrawing from his Ring Cycle engagement at The Met Opera, and...

Nixon in China, The Modern Opera That Could

Composer John Adams, speaking to Colin Eatock in a special interview for The Globe and Mail “Coming back to it now,” says Adams, “I’m astonished by what I was able to do at the time, given...

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Roberto Bolle: An Athlete in Tights

An Athlete in Tights is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between American Ballet Theatre and La Scala Theatre principal dancer Roberto Bolle and Vanity Fair photographer...

Meryl Streep on vocal stamina, studying opera and "just the breath"

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:20:52 -0800  Interview courtesy of NPRMeryl Streep: The Fresh Air InterviewMeryl Streep is known for completely enveloping herself in...

Interview with Bass-Baritone Mark S. Doss, pt 1 of 3

After months of work, I'm finally ready to reveal the latest addition to Art Life and Stilettos. I will be featuring video interviews and...

10 (Opera and Classical) Things To Do in Florence: July

It may be almost impossible to get away from the July heat in Florence (I've tried), but fortunately the incredible number of musical events...