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The Pick: Love From Afar, a haunting tale of longing that occasionally masquerades as a circus act
To say the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Love From Afar has a lot going on would be a bit of an understatement. This...
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The Argument: Why War Horse’s puppets win by flaunting their artificiality
Since it was first staged more than four years ago, War Horse has enjoyed the kind of success that’s usually reserved for Disney...
Today in Toronto: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and more
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Formed in 1958, this company changed the face of American dance, revelling in modernism and...
The Pick: Tosca, the Canadian Opera Company’s sublimely soapy melodrama
Puccini’s Tosca has never been a critical favourite. The melodies are just too schmaltzy, argue its detractors, and the plot is...
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The mayor is the son of hippies and tried by a jury of librarians (in Rob Ford: The Opera)
Yesterday’s first and only performance of Rob Ford: The Opera was as packed as an all-night executive committee meeting, with...
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The COC announces its 2012–2013 season, featuring a revival of Atom Egoyan’s Salome, Ben Heppner in Tristan and much more
Opera nerds across the city (and in this office) were aflutter today over the announcement of the Canadian Opera Company’s...
Today in Toronto: COC Ensemble Studio Competition and Tandoori Knights
COC Ensemble Studio Competition A chance to hear the next generation of Canadian opera stars. The ensemble studio has been...
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The Weekender: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
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Best of Fall 2011: Ten recommendations for an absolutely satisfying, perfectly proportioned autumn
The problem with this season is there’s simply too much to do. Too many tortured opera divas. Too many ballerinas with toe...
The one thing you should see this week: a star mezzo paired with a brilliant director
This week’s pick: Iphigenia in Tauris at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts We’ve already extolled the virtues of...
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Best of Fall #1: Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as an anguished princess in Iphigenia in Tauris
Once upon a time we didn’t get international stars at the Canadian Opera Company. We settled for good singers. We didn’t get...
Today in Toronto: Rigoletto, Another Africa and more
Rigoletto Find out more » Another Africa Two of 2010’s best shows return, exploring the complex relationship between Africa and...
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How Matthew Jocelyn tried to revive Canadian Stage but instead ended up scaring audiences away
As the crowd settled in for an early June performance of Édouard Lock’s Untitled at the Bluma Appel Theatre, Matthew...
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Opera: Simone Osborne gives Rigoletto’s heroine a backbone
She had no interest in opera—she wanted to sing jazz. But when Simone Osborne was 17, her voice teacher suggested she learn “O...
Today in Toronto: Falstaff
Falstaff Cottage country meets high culture under the guidance of tenor Richard Margison and director Valerie Kuinka. The operatic...
Today in Toronto: Lorin Maazel and the Toronto Burlesque Festival
Lorin Maazel and Castleton Festival Opera The BlackCreek Summer Music Festival’s inaugural season set its sights high, scoring...
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Why generations of artists insist on attempting the impossible—adapting Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Back in the 1990s, I starred as the Red Queen in Alice: The Rock Opera , a student production at the Claude Watson School for the...
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The Weekender: Ariadne auf Naxos, Itzhak Perlman and five other events on our to-do list
1. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS FESTIVAL Acrobats, fire-eaters, stilt-walkers—it’s not just the kids who’ll love this...
Today in Toronto: La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola Rossini’s operatic take on the Cinderella story dispenses with the glass slipper, fairy godmother and wicked...
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Today in Toronto: The Telephone/A Hand of Bridge, Hot Docs, Paul Taylor and more
The Telephone/A Hand of Bridge These are two of the shortest operas you’ll ever hear—Samuel Barber’s A Hand of Bridge lasts...
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The one thing you should see this week: the tumultuous career of our 18th prime minister, in opera form
This week’s pick: Mulroney: The Opera Mulroney: The Opera does not have the most sophisticated libretto (to wit: “I have the...
Culture
Watch the trailer for the upcoming Brian Mulroney opera
A few months ago, we told you about an upcoming satirical opera based on the life of Brian Mulroney. Well, now the trailer for...
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Today in Toronto: Don Giovanni and Renie Spoelstra
Don Giovanni The most Shakespearean of Mozart’s operas in its mix of refinement and buffoonery, this dramma giocoso never fails...
Today in Toronto: Bjoerling’s Larynx, Good Mourning Mrs. Brown and On Stage: Four Shakespeare Lectures
Bjoerling’s Larynx Don’t miss your last chance to see American photographer David Leventi’s exhibition of the impossibly...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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“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
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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
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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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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand