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...
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...
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? 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone was born in 1882, of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Born to Creek and Cherokee parents, she was sponsored by Alice Robertson...
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...
My thoughts on the news that Sebastian F. Schwarz stepping down as Glyndebourne general director.
There is a lot happening in the world of entertainment...
