The Chopped Canada Teen finale aired on Boxing Day in Canada with the winners of the previous four episodes competing for $20,000 (a little surprised that the finalists – winners from the previous four episodes – weren’t awarded anything. Honestly, $1,000 to $2,500 towards their education would have been great!). Mystery ingredients for the three […]
Home-grown soprano, Emily D’Angelo not only takes home the grand prize of $5,000, but was also picked as the audience’s choice winner (last year’s winner, Charles Sy was also picked by the audience), worth $1,500. The first and second runners up, each collecting $3,000 and $1,500 respectively, were Lauren Eberwein and Bruno Roy. In total, […]
Centre Stage, the annual competition for cash and places in the Canadian Opera Company’s prestigious Ensemble Studio will be held tonight, November 25, 2014. Seven finalists, all dressed to the nines, will be competing for spots and last Friday, I had the wonderful opportunity to observe the pieces that the finalists tried on (you may […]
The Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage will be holding its sophomore event on Tuesday, November 25 at its home, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The purpose of the event is to discover the “next opera star” and will feature seven singers, picked out of a pool of 175 from across Canada. The […]
On November 26, 2013, the Canadian Opera Company has a new addition to its event family. Centre Stage, a party held in conjunction with their Ensemble Studio competition and hosted by Rufus Wainright (a performer at the COC’s Operanation in 2011) will include a cocktail party in addition to performances of the nine finalists at […]
Apparently, they are going to take over more than 100 Zellers stores in the country, starting in 2013. Exact locations are yet to be determined. A Target store in Hawaii So Canadians, what do you think of this? Will you shop there? Do you already go to Target when you cross-border shop? I’m not too sure what to think […]
