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“People think opera is glamorous, but I’ve got news for them”: Soprano Kirsten LeBlanc on stepping into the lead role of
La Reine-garçon
The singer talks elaborate costumes, warm-up rituals and falling in love with the history of Sweden’s gender-bending Queen Christine
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Memoir
“Being a supernumerary is like being handed an all-access pass to the opera”
For diehard opera fan Mark Garlin, a 37-year-old administrative assistant in outpatient care from Swansea, watching his favourite productions from the stage itself was a dream come true
Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this May
A revival of
Jesus Christ Superstar
, a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, a night of comedy with Gerry Dee and more
Culture
What to see, do, hear and read in Toronto this February
Including an indie powerhouse's most emotional tour yet, an exhibition on reclaiming Indigenous culture and a new adaptation of a classic play by Anton Chekhov
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City News
The Questionnaire: Three new performing arts heads on their pandemic pivots
After two tough years, the performing arts are live once more. Here, the leaders of Toronto’s top institutions explain how they plan to get things humming
Memoir
A young opera singer lost his biggest champions to Covid. This performance helped him heal
"Performing Mozart's
Requiem
turned into a way for me to console the pain that I hadn’t fully come to terms with"
Culture
Go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, see a
Simpsons
-inspired play and eight other things to do this week
Go crazy for comics at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival Toronto has always been a comics town—Joe Shuster even modelled...
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Culture
See a play in an abandoned high school, bid farewell to Dame Edna and seven other things to do this week
See a play in an abandoned high school One of the season's most ambitious theatre creations is Sheridan College's Brantwood...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 11–13
In this edition of The Weekender, a modern reinterpretation of a classic opera, a festival of kids' movies and three more things...
Culture
The Canadian Opera Company’s 2014 season is heavy on international talent, and Atom Egoyan
The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2014/2015 lineup on Wednesday evening, and opera fans have a few things to look forward...
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City News
Best of Fall 2013: six Toronto concerts that are totally worth the lineup
By Andrew D’Cruz, Sue Carter Flinn, Emily Landau, Alison Mah, Jason McBride, Courtney Shea, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Webster and...
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Luminato 2013 guide: 17 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
This year’s Luminato Festival, the first under the complete oversight of artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt, seems to have...
City News
The Argument: Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too
In early 2011, Peter Oundjian, the music director for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, enlisted Tod Machover to compose a piece for...
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The Argument: why the stakes are so high for Ben Heppner’s return to the Canadian Opera Company
A controversial production. A hugely difficult role. A star with a reputation for choking onstage. The stakes are high for Ben...
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The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
Culture
Current Obsession: The Metropolis Case, the best way to get pumped for the COC’s latest opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opens tonight at the COC, demands total surrender on the part of the audience, both...
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Culture
The COC’s 2013–2014 season features Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes and a new Atom Egoyan production
The Canadian Opera Company’ s general director Alexander Neef unveiled the lineup for the COC’s 2013–2014 season this...
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Today in Toronto: Snow White, Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition and more
Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition A training ground for young singers, the COC ensemble has been around since...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister gave me opera tickets. Am I obligated to take her as my date?
Dear Urban Diplomat, For my 40th birthday, my sister bought me season’s tickets to the Canadian Opera Company—two seats in the...
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Party Pages: Opera supporters dance to Nelly Furtado and The Arkells at this year’s Operanation gala
Operanation, the annual party to benefit the Canadian Opera Company, is always one of the year’s biggest fetes (not least in...
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The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Paper Bag’s 10th anniversary and six other events on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE From dusk to dawn, the streets of Toronto will be packed with art and art lovers for the seventh...
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Reason to Love Toronto: because our most priceless art is free
Toronto’s new luxury hotels have elicited a lot of praise—they’ve given the city new restaurants, bars and ballrooms, and at...
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The Pick: The Tales of Hoffman, a comic opera that’s actually funny
There’s funny, and then there’s opera funny. You know, the kind of lost-in-surtitled-translation wit or pro-forma buffoonery...
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The Conversation: Steven Page and Johannes Debus on making music—both popular and avant garde
The place: the Cameron House on Queen West | The people: singer-songwriter Steven Page and COC music director Johannes Debus | The...
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Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions