Royalty and opera both live in spaces of extreme stakes, and that’s precisely where Canadian soprano Ambur Braid prefers to spend her time. “Extreme people are much easier to unpack,” says the B.C.

21:53Ambur Braid is starring in the opera that changed her life Ambur Braid always wanted to be a singer, but it wasn't until she saw Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck as an undergraduate student that she ...

In this post-Bieber era, when any bedroom singer with a YouTube account and a good hook can become a global pop star... Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have ...

Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have landed the young soprano a big, juicy part in the COC’s production of Die Fledermaus. Fuelled by champagne and waltzes, ...

It’s a sure sign we are living in precarious times when a melodramatic tragedy set in 1800 Rome resonates so strongly with our current political and social climate. “It seems very dramatic,” says ...

A dance-perhaps the most famous one in history-precedes a macabre kiss and untimely demise in Richard Strauss' Salome, on stage this winter at the Canadian Opera Company. Under the direction of ...

There's a terrific assortment of new movies in theaters this weekend, including the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and the drama Regretting You. Nicole Kidman reunites with ex following ...

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