Posts tagged: arts

Kristen Au @ Aspetta Caffe

Kensington Market is becoming a more interesting place for me these days. It used to be just a grungy, dirty area of town next to Chinatown that offered nothing for me but fruit stands and small stalls offering cheap clothing I would never buy in a million years. It still is grungy and a little [...]

Sunday April 4th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »

Carmen is Don Jose’s #1, but only my #4

Bizet’s Carmen is one of the opera world’s most reknowned and most enjoyed pieces. It is full of familiar arias and melodies. It has love and passion, heartache and murder. It has high and rousing energy at times, and quiet emotional moments at others. Yet, for all this, Carmen is at most #4 in my [...]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in , , , , | 3 Comments »