A Night of Curiosities and Style: 38 Photos From Operanation 2017

Opera, like jazz or poetry, is a vital art form that doesn’t get near as much love as it deserves in our social media-addled culture. Thankfully, once a year (for the past 13 years) there is Operanation, the iconic fundraising event for the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, that serves to remind everyone how relevant, versatile, and of course stylish, opera can be.

This year’s event, which took over the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts last night, was no different. The theme was A Night of Curiosities, and the soiree was packed with Toronto’s most stylish tastemakers, all dressed to slay any red carpet. If you’re curious, we have photos and some PartyPix photo booth gifs to prove it.

Of course it wasn’t all about gawking at fashionable people. Guests were treated to a performance by Juno Award-winning Kiesza. Flanked by opera singers with serious range, the set brought down the house (metaphorically speaking—no socialites were harmed, thank goodness).

In case you missed it, here are some highlights.

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photgraphy by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

Photography by Ryan Emberley

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Kiesza

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Lucia & Jeffrey Remedios

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Alexander & Clare Neef, Lucia & Jeffrey Remedios

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Simone Osborne and Gordon Bintner

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Dan Kurtz

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Raghu & Roxy Earle

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Pierre Jutras, Grego Minot

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Jessica Denomme, Vanessa Wiktorczyk

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Rebecca Levy, Andrea Anders

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Natalie Petozzi, Abigail Van Den Broek

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Shayne Stephens, Gurpreet Ahluwalia

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Gianna Ritacca, Beatrix Pausey

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Teddy Wilson, Giancarlo Milazzo

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Kim Tanenbaum

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Maryam Keyhani

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Amy Burstyn Fritz, Ashleigh Semkiw

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Kiesza

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Luke D’Alves, Jacqueline Kendall

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Ambur Braid, Staunton Bowen

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Robert Bates, Chantel Elloway

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Kate Mostowyk, Julie Cordeiro

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Chair of the COC Board of Directors, Colleen Sexsmith and Jeff Lloyd

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Christine Ozimek, Anne Maggisano

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James Temple, Jessika Fink, Justin Harris

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Dean Harrison, Natalie Deane

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Frank Griggs, Jeremy Laing

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Rachel Finamore, Natasha Black

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Gracie Carroll, Anya Georgijevic, Nelia Belkova

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Parambir Keila, Ajili Patel

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Bianca Teixeira

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Talia Brown, Nelson Thall

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Rebecca Levy, Andrea Macerollo, Diana Dyer

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Roya Saji, Renata Kaveh

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Mira Singh

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Renata Kaveh

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