The Toronto Traveler

Don’t let the casual look on the face of my friend to the left fool you; the Plaza Flamingo establishment is one of the hottest tickets in downtown Toronto.  It’s not exactly a nightclub, a dance hall or a restaurant, but it has elements of all three. 
Rather than forcing you to walk from place to place in order to get the full entertainment that you want your evening to have, the Plaza Flamingo provides it all.  Here’s just a small overview of the different things that you can do and have done when you dine at the Plaza …read more

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As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s more famous plays and a comedy, believed to have been written by the great playwright sometime between 1599 and 1600.  It has been adapted for radio, film and for musical productions as well and the famous Shakespearean line “All the world’s a stage” is from this very play.
 
Well, if you’re going to be in Toronto sometime during the next few days, you’ll have a chance to catch a performance of As You Like It April 16th-19th as the ending of a production that started in February looms.
 
Event: As You Like It
Location: Young …read more

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Photo Credit: Sony Centre by StarbuckGuy on Flickr, used under the CCA 2.0 License
The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto is locted at the intersection of Front and Yonge, giving it one of the most ideal locations in the city.  Close enough to the downtown core to attract people from all over the city yet far enough away from it to make great use of the nearby lake scenery, the Sony Centre is one of the most popular performing arts venues in the whole city.  One of their current productions which started yesterday and is ending on Saturday, …read more

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Three great composers will be finding their place downtown in what is going to be one of the best concert events to be put on this year in Toronto.
Mozart

Mozart has a number of distinctions as a composer, not least of which is his ability to be consistently prolific throughout his whole life.  He actually put out over 600 different compositional works throughout his lifetime and many of them are still considered classics today, showing how influential he was in his classical compositional skin.
At one point in the year 1783, Mozart and his wife had stopped over in the town of …read more

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George Frideric Handel was born in 1685 in Germany and is most definitely one of the best known German composers.  He is famous for his composition of operas, of which Tamerlano is one.
Tamerlano premiered in the King’s Theatre in London on October 31, 1724.  It was actually co-produced by Italian lyricist Nicola Francesco Haym, although Handel was able to produce the music to this masterpiece in less than three weeks time!  Ever since its premier, Tamerlano has been very popular all over the world and it is performed at many different times throughout the year in some of the most …read more

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Mozart is an 18th century composer that was responsible for the creation of many well known and easily recognizable pieces, although of course some of them have been parodied to the extent that you might not initially realize that they were composed by him.  He’s also probably one of my favourite composers, which is quite naturally why I decided to blog about this upcoming event .
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is going to be kicking off their Mozart Festival at Roy Thomson Hall through the performance of Symphony Number 40 by Mozart, with one of Canada’s best soprano opera singers …read more

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The first time that The Nutcracker was presented was in the city of St. Petersburg in Russia in 1892.  It is a tale of the wonderment of a child’s mind and over time it also grown to become synonymous with the celebration of Christmas.  To that end, The National Ballet of Canada started performing their version of The Nutcracker at The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on the 8th of this month and the current tour will be wrapping up shortly on December 30th.  There are still tickets left for the December 28th at 1PM and December 30th …read more

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The City Playhouse Theatre is set to be host to one of the most interesting events of early 2008 when they roll out the red carpet (or rather, should that be the green carpet?) for the 2008 Green Reel Environmental Film Festival.
The festival is designed to have a number of different documentaries as well as mainstream and independent productions shown at it.  The only real requirement for a particular feature to be shown at the festival is that it needs to have an environmental theme of some kind.  When this was weighed by the directors of the festival, a list …read more

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One of the things that I absolutely love about living in Toronto is the fact that there are so many artists around.  While there are a lot of visual artists around, this particular post is about someone that is very fun to watch in the performing art of music. 
Bernie German is one of the most delightful musicians around in my opinion, because he is very energetic in the way that he sings.  Children from all over love his singing and this is true even to the extent that people that are in Toronto as families touring the city sometimes choose …read more

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Christmas is a very fun time, regardless of whether you celebrate it or not.  You get the chance to be with your family, many of whom you may only see at that time.  You get the chance to watch television and eat chocolate as much as your heart desires.  And of course people that do celebrate the holiday get to have presents, sing Christmas Carols and everyone also gets the day off from work.  All in all, Christmas is a very fun time and if you are going to be in Toronto this evening you can help the Metropolitan Community …read more

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