Beautiful Feet

COC PRODUCTION Giacomo Puccini Set in Rome amid the turbulence of the Napoleonic Wars,  Tosca  is a tense psychological drama of  passion and betrayal. Floria Tosca, a famous singer, murders Scarpia, the vicious chief of police, to save her beloved Cavaradossi. But Scarpia’s schemes outlive him with cruel and fatal consequences. CAST AND CREATIVE TEAMS Tosca   Adrianne Pieczonka/Keri Alkema* Cavaradossi    Marcelo Puente/Kamen Chanev* Scarpia    Markus Marquardt/Craig Colclough* Angelotti Musa Ngqungwana A Sacristan    Donato di Stefano Spoletta Joel Sorensen Sciarrone  Giles Tomkins A Jailer Bruno Roy Conductor:     Keri-Lynn Wilson Director:   Paul Curran Set Designer and  Costume Designer:   Kevin Knight Lighting Designer:   David Martin Jacques Chorus Master:   Sandra Horst *May 7, 11, 14, 18, 20, 2017 Adrianne Pieczonka as Tosca in  Tosca  (COC, 2012...

SPOTLIGHT AUSTRALIA meeting DIRECTED, CHOREOGRAPHED & PERFORMED BY  Antony Hamilton Vanessa Wells ‏   @vwellseditor Hootlet More Don't know how 2 describe what I just saw except 64 computerized tapping pencils & 2 Aussie dancers. Insanely cool @canadianstage #Meeting CONCEPT, TEXT & PERFORMANCE Tamara Saulwick SONG-WRITER & PERFORMER Paddy Mann SOUND DESIGNER, COMPOSER & OPERATOR Peter Knight SET & LIGHTING DESIGNER Ben Cobham / bluebottle DRAMATURGE Margaret Trail COSTUME DESIGNER Harriet Oxley PHOTO CREDIT Prudence Upton

LOUIS RIEL By Harry Somers Libretto by Mavor Moore with the collaboration of Jacques Languirand Russell Braun was excellent.

Canadian Stage One of the best pieces I have seen CHOREOGRAPHY Marie Chouinard ORIGINAL MUSIC Louis Dufort SET, COSTUME, LIGHTING, VIDEO DESIGN, PROPS Marie Chouinard

A show by  Fay Ringel & Alex Correia, Founders ZEBRA PUBLIC ART MGMT.     www.ZebraPublicArt.com   2 St. Clair Avenue West, 18th Floor Toronto, ON M4V 1L5     Phone:   416.505.6459   | Email:  Info @ZebraPublicArt.com So ticked that I had to work and miss this! Next time.

Photo by Bill Cooper, featuring Ben McAteer (James) Who called it?! Scottish Opera's Ben McAteer just beat out some fierce competition to win Outstanding Opera Performance at the  MyTheatre Awards  for last season's  The Devil Inside ! Composed by Stuart MacRae with libretto by Louise Welsh,  The Devil Inside  was Scottish Opera's North American debut featuring international artists including Matthew Richardson, Michael Rafferty, Nicholas Sharratt, Rachel Kelly, Ben McAteer, and Steven Page. CONGRATULATIONS to Ben and all involved in bringing this outstanding production to Toronto. We are proud and thrilled. The Nominees for Outstanding Opera Performance: Jane Archibald in Ariodante (Canadian Opera Company) Rachel Kelly in The Devil Inside (Tapestry Opera) Ben McAteer in The Devil Inside (Tapestry Opera) - WINNER! Erin Wall in The Marriage of Figaro (Canadian Opera Company) Sondra Radvanovsky in Norma (Canadian Op...

This is the most intelligent and gripping TV I have watched in years and years. Sorry I missed it when it was first released; glad it's on Netflix now. Devastating and chilling, largely because we're almost there now. (2011, created by Charlie Brooker.)

Scott Belluz and Subiksha Rangarajan (as The Woman)  Photo courtesy of Domoney Artists . Used with permission. In March, countertenor Scott Belluz starred in The Man Who Married Himself , a production by Toronto Masque Theatre in their penultimate season, which the Crow’s Nest website described thus : “ Unwilling to marry a woman, a man fashions a lover from his own left side. He's enraptured by her perfect beauty—a mirror of his own—until he discovers that this new woman longs for freedom and wildly desires another. South Asian and Baroque music and performance traditions meet in a stunning new masque based on a traditional Indian folk-tale. Powerful and timely, The Man Who Married Himself is an allegory of the female and male warring within as told by 2 dancers, 3 singers and 6 musicians.” The show was very engaging, with lots of gestural and sensual stimuli, as well as unexpected humour. As someone in the talkback said, unlike most folk-tales, which in general h...

Photo courtesy of Canstage This weekend presented me with a lot of cultural worldviews; this post and the following are a sample of the arts I enjoyed.   Kiss  caught me off guard; speaking to a friend after, it seemed that, unfortunately, half the audience thought this was a comedy and the political commentary was lost on them and somewhat ruined for us. Shout-outs to the cast.  WRITTEN BY  Guillermo Calderon DIRECTED BY  Ashlie Corcoran CAST Dalal Badr Liza Balkan Greg Gale Carlos González-Vío Naomi Wright Bahareh Yaraghi ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/SOUND DESIGNER  Christopher Stanton SET DESIGNER  Jung-Hye Kim COSTUME DESIGNER  Jackie Chau LIGHTING DESIGNER  Rebecca Picherack PROJECTION DESIGNER  Alex Williams ARABIC TRANSLATION/LANGUAGE COACH S alma Al Atassi STAGE MANAGER  Natasha Bean-Smith APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER  Lucy McPhee PRODUCER (THEATRE SMASH)  Stacey Norton ASSOCIATE PRODUCER  Cody McCallum PRODUC...

I like Jain's video "Come" for its artistry, but this one for "Makeba" is artistically more mature.   Also check out Robert Ló pez dates here . I like " Oye Candelaria ."   Good God, we're getting close to 20 years... From a professional (? It doesn't suck.) tributor.                                       And, just coz I like the shot from Source Code  (2011, dir. Duncan Jones) with Jake Gyllenhaal: