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Posted March 9th, 2010 by webmaster

Enter to win a pair of tickets to see The National Ballet of Canada’s timeless production of Swan Lake on stage at the Four Seasons Centre from March 11 to 21.

Tchaikovsky’s gloriously heart-flooding music, James Kudelka’s masterful choreography, and Santo Loquasto’s evocative sets and costumes are a perfect setting for a work of arresting beauty.

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winealign.jpg"Annual Wines of Chile Awards: Canadian Critics Choose Chile’s Top Wines By John Szabo - All Winners Revealed. The seventh Annual Wines of Chile Awards competition wrapped up in Santiago last week. It’s the principal annual tasting to determine the country’s best wines, and I was happy to take part along with a delegation of ten Canadian judges. Read more: http://winealign.com/john
- John Szabo, Wine Align

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Vienna is art, culture…and MUSIC! Enter now and you could win a trip for two to Vienna, including 3 nights in a four star hotel, courtesy of the Austrian Tourist Office and the Austrian Consulate General, Commercial Section. You could be waltzing in Vienna in the new year'. We'll be contacting the winner on December 21st, 2009, so start planning your Austrian getaway at ExperienceAustria.com and ENTER on our contests page!
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M.G. Vassanji, already celebrated for his fiction, is now a Governor General's Literary Award-winner for his evocative memoir "A Place Within: Rediscovering India." The Toronto-based author is a two-time winner of the Giller Prize for fiction and picked up a G.G. for English non-fiction in Montreal today. Novelist Kate Pullinger, originally from B.C., but now living in the U.K., is the English-language fiction winner for "The Mistress of Nothing." Each winner receives $25,000, while the other finalists receive $1,000 each. Governor General Michaëlle Jean will present the 14 winners with their awards at an evening gala at Rideau Hall on Nov. 26.
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Toronto funnyman Sean Cullen will be back at Stratford next year. Cullen will play Captain Hook's sidekick, Smee in "Peter Pan". He'll also play Vinnie, the MC, in George F. Walker's "King of Thieves." Cullen is a three-time Gemini Award winner and was recently at Stratford as Pseudolus in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." Meanwhile, the festival has announced that Sophia Walker will replace Nikki M. James as Julia in "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" next year. James has had to withdraw from next season due to "personal reasons." The American actress was also slated to play Ariel in "The Tempest" alongside Christopher Plummer - a follow-up to their successful pairing in Ceasar and Cleopatra and Stratford says the part of ariel has yet to be re-cast.
- CBC

Renowned Canadian tenor Ben Heppner won't be part of the Canadian Opera Company's upcoming 60th anniversary concert though he was among the major highlights of the upcoming event on November 7th. Heppner has a nagging illness that he caught during a recent engagement at the Royal Opera House, where he was singing Tristan in a Covent Garden production of Tristan und Isolde. Organizers have secured a pair of Heppner's high-profile, fellow Metropolitan Opera colleagues to fill in: Canadian baritone, Russell Braun and Mexican tenor, Ramon Vargas.
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Robert Lepage does it again! The Canadian Opera Company says it has added another performance of Lepage's "The Nightingale and Other Short Fables" due to unprecedented demand. The production features puppets performing in an orchestra pit filled with 68,000 litres of water. The Stravinsky opera has received critical raves after its world premiere last weekend. After the show, the opera company says it received a record number of calls and subsequently added another performance on November 2nd and the other six previously scheduled performances are sold out. Lepage made headlines when he announced his vision to fill the orchestra pit with water for the show, which features the work of Igor Stravinsky.
- CBC

A renowned Canadian musician has won the Canada Council's Walter Carsen prize worth $50,000. He's composer, conductor and celebrated flutist, Robert Aitken. The honour celebrates the artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by a Canadian performing artist in the realm of theatre, dance or music. Aitken is 70 now and has previously been awarded the Order of Canada and a Chevalier of the order of arts and letters in France. The award was established through a $1.1 million donation by Toronto businessman and arts philanthropist Walter Carsen and is awarded annuiallly on a four-year cycle recognizing dance, theatre, and music.
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It's turning out to be a great couple of weeks for British Columbia writer, Annabel Lyon. Her novel "The Golden Mean" is now a contender for the Governor General's literary prize. Lyon's debut novel has already made the short list for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. "The Golden Mean" is about the Greek philosopher Aristotle and his relationship with Alexander the Great Lyon is in good company. Also on the list for the so-called "GGs" are Alice Munro, Michael Crummey, Kate Pullinger and Deborah Willis.
- CBC

One of the top five orchestras in the world is coming to Toronto, part of The Glenn Gould Prize Celebration of Music Week. The gala concert is Monday, October 26 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, in his first-ever Toronto appearance. That same evening, doctor José Antonio Abreu will receive the eighth Glenn Gould Prize at this historic concert. The October 26th gala opens a week-long residency by "SBYOV" that will take music to schools and community organizations, promote the ideas behind El Sistema... and finish with a massive orchestral concert for an audience of 14,000 students. For more information about the full Celebration of Music Week visit www.glenngould.ca.
- CBC

On the heels of yesterday's Giller shortlist announcement comes word that Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in English literature. Mantel wins for "wolf hall", a vividly told tale of Tudor intrigue. The 57 year old author was a favourite going into the awards. Mantel takes home the equivalent of just over $85,000CDN and a guaranteed surge in book sales.
- CBC

One of Canada's most respected conductors has accepted a position at The Royal Conservatory. Uri Mayer has been appointed Director of The Glenn Gould School Orchestral Programme and Resident Conductor. It means the Royal Conservatory Orchestra can double the amount of performances, and students will be able to learn from one of the country's eminent conductors. Maestro mayer is an accomplished violist and has conducted symphony orchestras all over the globe.
- CBC

The celebrity photographer who has been struggling with a major financial debt will be honoured by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum with its annual Women of Distinction award. Annie Leibovitz was in danger of losing the copyrights to her vast body of work because of a $24-million US loan but her lawyers won her a reprieve, which required Leibovitz to grant the financial company the right to act as her agent in selling her images and homes. The O'Keeffe museum in Sante Fe says Leibovitz is being honoured for her provocative works, which include iconic portraits of the famous and the infamous. Some of her well-known shots include the Rolling Stone cover of a naked John Lennon curled up to his wife, Yoko Ono and a Vanity Fair cover of a nude and very pregnant Demi Moore.
- CBC

An Egyptian sculpture of Queen Nefertiti has returned to the Berlin museum that exhibited her before the Second World War. The ancient limestone carving was installed in the renovated "Neues" Museum yesterday. During the Second World War, the Red Army wrecked the museum when it invaded Berlin. Nefertiti was among a number of artifacts that had been stored in a salt mine. She is often referred to as the Beauty of the Nile.
- CBC

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