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Contest: Win Tickets to The Canadian Opera Company's Fidelio
The Canadian Opera Company is ready to commence their winter season, which will feature two passionately romantic productions, Fidelio and Rusalka.
These intense love stories are sure to heat up the cold winter months, and we've got a pair of tickets for one lucky reader to attend the Jan. 27th performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, at the magnificent Four Seasons Center for the Performing Arts.
The Canadian Opera Company's fall season opened with Don Giovanni and War & Peace, which focused on the intensity of the human spirit facing struggle. With mixed reviews of these performances, the Winter session looks to bring romance and fantasy back to the Four Seasons' Stage.
Dvorak's masterpiece Rusalka will open January 31st. This Czech opera combines Erben's A Garland of National Tales, Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid and Friedrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine, weaving a fantastical love story about a nymph who falls in love with a human. This COC presentation will also feature an Appetite for Opera event at the Tundra restaurant on January 22nd.
The production of Fidelio opens on January 24th, presenting Beethoven's only opera about a love strong enough to conquer all odds and adversity. Beethoven preferred the title Leonore, in honor of the heroine forced to disguise herself as a man to save her lover, but it was decided to put her male name Fidelio up on the marquee. The rich history of this opera will also be open to attendees through the pre-performance opera chats which allow the audience to better understand the details behind this great composer's only opera.
CONTEST:
Whether you have been to the opera before or have yet to share in the experience, we want to make sure you don't miss out! So, blogTO is giving away one pair of tickets to the January 27th, 7:30pm performance of Fidelio.
To Enter: Leave a comment telling us what you *love* about the holiday season. There's so much to love... you just have to pick one good thing.
We will select one winner at random from all comments left before 5pm Boxing Day. Please make sure to leave a valid email address when you comment, so we can contact you for prize claim details.
Happy holidays and keep spreadin' the love!
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I love spending time with family and friends. Time is precious to all of us. We may not have each other around for ever, but once a year (at least!) the most valuable gift to me is sharing time with loved ones.
I secretly love that my mother insists on wearing her tacky Santa Claus apron to Christmas dinner (even though we make fun of her for it).
I love having an excuse to make elaborate christmas cards, playing with knives and dead birds all day, and blasting Mariah Carey's christmas rendition.
jerked turkey, rum, and caribbean remixed christmas carols on repeat! makes everything feel a little warmer...
Watching Die Hard on Christmas eve. Always have a great time drinkin with my bro!
I love... lamp.
Also... days off work which leads to copius OT shifts, a grand feast which leads to 10 lbs of weight gain, and giving/receiving awesome gifts.
Love the Christmas chorus and timeless classics played across all radio stations - non-stop and sometimes even commercial-free.
R.
I love decorating Christmas tree!
i love the hypocrisy
Calling my family all over the country.
Actually I secretly love hearing the same X-mas songs... over and over during this time of year. It reminds me of being 5 again!
I love that for two days my family sees only each other. We eat, talk, drink, watch movies, read and just generally exist without any outside interference for two days. I really do love that.
I love how quiet and peaceful the city is on Christmas morning
that everyone's a bit friendlier to each other
I love sleeping in on a day off.
I love gorging myself on turkey and eggnog. It's delightful!
I love seeing my partner's face when he opens his gift.
I love it when a nephew gets all excited about opening a gift... then spend most of the time playing with it's BOX instead of the actual gift! :)
Happy Holidays everyone.
I love being with family, period. All you need is loved ones.
I love eggnog! yum!
(...though, I have developed a slight aversion to eggs since reading your recent article with that bloody egg... yuck!)
Going to my hometown and celebrating with family and friends while packing on the pounds from food that I don't have too cook seems like a good enough reason to love Christmas!
I love the time spent with family.
I love christmas morning breakfast, and the inevitable nap that sometimes stretches into christmas dinner.
Watching Hitchcock movies.
Drinking hot tea on cold days.
I love traveling over the holidays :)
I love ruining my appetite for Christmas breakfast by gorging myself on candy while opening gifts.
I love Christmas because it's an excuse to cover my scotchaholism.
I love the classic movies - It's a Wonderful Life, and the Alistair Sim version of Scrooge - are perennial, heart-warming favourites.
I love the fact that I can indulge my love for brussel sprouts without everyone else complaining that they're not a real food item. :) That...and watching the same ads for Boxing Day sales at stores where I can ho-ho-hold the payments until 2010.
I love spending time with my family. It may seem cliche, but usually we're all so busy. The holidays is one of those times we make sure we're together.
I love the two weeks off I get :)
Over the holidays I love doing nothing, thinking about doing nothing, pontificate about nothing, philosophize about nothingness, plan on nothing, dream about nothing, take a deep breath of nothing, yes there is nothing like the hoildays
I love a cup of hot apple cider on a cold day.
I love having family over and feeding them, then settling in for the attack of the enzyme, while we chat and drink in front of the fire DVD. Bliss.
Bonding with my 92 year old grampa over Ben-Hur.
Having now no family, during this holiday season it makes me really appreciate having good friends.
I love hot chocolate on a cold snowy day.
I love relaxing with coffee and brunch on Christmas morning.
I love the fact that websites run contests like this so I can possibly go to the opera.
Baking holiday cookies!
I love being able to celebrate both Chanukah and Christmas this year with my significant other, since it's wonderful to be able to mix the holidays and learn about new things and traditions.
I love boxing day shopping!
love christmas for all the cheesy songs, xmas trees, holidays and family time
Getting to fly back to BC and see all my wonderful family! I love christmas dinner at our giant table.
I love that it's acceptable to undo your belt and pants after stuffing yourself around great company.
The December holidays .... oh yes my friend. This is the time we are reminded of how precious are the few moments in our busy lives that we are able to make special time to share and enjoy the festivities together.
a renewal of HOPE.
I love how, after 27 years of marriage, despite my parents' insistence that they will not buy each other a gift, my father continues to give my mother a bottle of Clinique Happy and a new nightgown from Sears every single year. And every year she maintains surprise and contentment at dad's seemingly unexpected gesture. :)
I love that I can wear my shiniest clothing to any party, be it a Holiday party, Christmas party, New Year's party and everything in between.
I love the idea that I get to have a nice few days off and go home to my parents and be with my entire family. Dinner is usually had at my Grandmothers on Christmas eve - and she cooks enough food to feed an army... then there is christmas morning at home and then visiting other friends and relatives. Its just nice to slow down for a couple of days and be reminded of what is really important.
I love that over the holidays there are always tennis courts free at my club.
"I love the fact that amidst all the hate and conflict in the world, everyone comes together on this day and just loves."
I love that, for whatever reason, everyone seems a little happier and friendlier. It's not much, but the parting 'Merry Christmas' hugs betwen people you're not normally that close to always makes me feel that deep down, we're all loving and caring people. No idea why Christmas brings that out, but I love that it does.
I LOVE pajama day (aka Boxing Day)
i love family and friends and the laughter and good times at a pace that seems to be missing in everyday life.
I love hate the winter or I hate love the winter
I know the contest is over... But I love being forced into doing the Christmas morning/afternoon vodka shots by my sisters fiance every year. Especially when he gets my mom and baba into it
and I love seeing so much enthusiasm for holiday love!
What an overwhelming response to a contest run on xmas day... wow. But there can be only one winner.... Congratulations, 'Cav'!
"I love ruining my appetite for Christmas breakfast by gorging myself on candy while opening gifts."
I actually like to start every morning this way. These were so fun to read, so thank you everyone who put up a response... keep the love flowin' and happy holidays!