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Musical spectacle: Horse and rider are dwarfed against a huge staging in SkyDome as sphinxes and chorus make a dramatic opera setting
Musical spectacle: Horse and rider are dwarfed against a huge staging in SkyDome as sphinxes and chorus make a dramatic opera setting

Musical spectacle: Horse and rider are dwarfed against a huge staging in SkyDome as sphinxes and chorus make a dramatic opera setting

Date10/26/1989
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Original Toronto Star caption: Musical spectacle: Horse and rider are dwarfed against a huge staging in SkyDome as sphinxes and chorus make a dramatic opera setting.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0102755F
      Flying in the Skydome, A worker is dwarfed by the hull of an overhanging vessel from a Mississauga marina at the International Power Boat Show that opens today at the SkyDome
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      Stawicki, Andrew
      2/20/1990
      The man responsible for the staging of last night's presentation of Aida by the Canadian Opera Company, Herman Geiger-Torel, was presented with a bouq(...)
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      Geiger-Torel, Herman, 1907-1976
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      Dwarfed by several oversized baseball fans, a couple of SkyDome construction workers look over the downtown scene while taking a coffee break on the g(...)
      Dwarfed by several oversized baseball fans, a couple of SkyDome construction workers look over the downtown scene while taking a coffee break on the g(...)
      Eglinton, Rick
      5/3/1989
      New Material: With no sign of the throat virus that cancelled her Chicago concert, superstar Madonna puts on a raunchy spectacle of dance and music for 27,000 fans at SkyDome last night, including songs from her new album I'm Breathless from the movie Dick Tracy
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      Madonna, 1958-
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      Bryant, George
      3/11/1972
      Bloody spectacle: Skinny Puppy's lead singer Nivek Ogre illustrated his outrage against the cruelty of vivisection with a bloody pantomime at the Concert Hall last night
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      Skinny Puppy (Musical group)
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      Choir singing isn't sissy business, according to Lloyd Bradshaw, chorus master of the Canadian Opera Company
      Choir singing isn't sissy business, according to Lloyd Bradshaw, chorus master of the Canadian Opera Company
      Bradshaw, Lloyd
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      A chorus of christmas cheer. Ontario Premier David Peterson is surrounded by a happy crush of youngsters, members of the Canadian Children's Opera Cho(...)
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      Goode, Jeff
      12/5/1988
      Berthold Carriere: Critic treats musicals as dramatic presentations, reader says
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      Carriere, Berthold, 1940-
      6/25/1983
      Boldly dramatic: Top Toronto designer Robert Dirstein, right, with his huge embroidered portrait of a mandarin, found about 10 years ago at a Toronto estate auction.
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      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      12/3/1982
      Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
      Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
      Spremo, Boris
      11/26/1973
      Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Henkel check their list to see that everything - and everyone - is aboard their minibus before setting off for another engagement. The seven Henkel children, Rosalind, Barbara, Arnold, Doris, Walter, George Peter, all play musical instruments and are known as the Flatland Yodellers. They have been awarded the Metropolitan Toronto Good Citizen Medal for May.
      Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Henkel check their list to see that everything - and everyone - is aboard their minibus before setting off for another engagement. The seven Henkel children, Rosalind, Barbara, Arnold, Doris, Walter, George Peter, all play musical instruments and are known as the Flatland Yodellers. They have been awarded the Metropolitan Toronto Good Citizen Medal for May.
      Geo, Mario
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