Posted on 10/06/06
Opera's new home
No wonder Richard Bradshaw likens the building of Toronto's opera house to the Thirty Years' War. In the 1960s, there were hopes leading up to the Centennial, but we got the O'Keefe (now the Hummingbird Centre) instead. In the 1980s, there were lavish plans to build the Ballet Opera House at the corner of Bay and Wellesley streets, but that dream fizzled too.
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