Ultimate Wedding Mishap Contest Winners

The winners of Opera Atelier's Ultimate Wedding Mishap Contest just been announced. Sheila Sky and Sophie Bisson will both receive 2 tickets to the April 28th performance of The Marriage of Figaro for their hilarious 140-word contributions. Here is what Sheila wrote:

Power failure at city hall. Minister a no show. Married by rabbi instead, but who cares, it was dark. 22 years later still married.

Sophie's submission:

Greek Otis waits at the altar. Indian Padma, an hour late. Malaise and scuttlebutt. Padma locked in vestry. Priest beseeching she converts.

A huge thanks goes to Opera Atelier for making these tickets available. You can find out more about OA's upcoming production here.

And finally, the classic internet viral video of a timeless wedding and best man FAIL:

The Ultimate Wedding Mishap Contest: Win 2 Free Tickets to See Opera Atelier's Marriage of Figaro

Today's post comes from the pen quill of Nancy Hitzig, Opera Atelier's Manager of Education and Marketing. Many thanks to Opera Atelier for giving away 2 pairs of free tickets to CPB readers for the April 28 Marriage of Figaro performance! Please note that this time around, you will need to send the entries to blog [at] operaatelier dot com rather than my own email address for them to be added to the list for adjudication. You can follow Nancy on Twitter at @nothingbuthitz.

The Ultimate Wedding Mishap Contest

Bridal wardrobe malfunction? Overly refreshed clergyman? Catering snafu?

Post your ultimate wedding mishap story in 140 characters or less for a chance to win a pair of tickets to Opera Atelier's brand new production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at the Elgin Theatre in Toronto.

Email blog [at] operaatelier dot com with your entry for a chance to win. Contest closes Friday, April 23 at 5 pm.

Winners will be chosen by Collaborative Piano Guru Chris Foley, Jane Hargraft, OA General Manager and Marshall Pynkoski, Co-Artistic Director of Opera Atelier, and announced at 5:01 pm!

May the best post win!

Don’t have a story? Don’t miss out on comedy done right! Tickets start at $35.

Tickets are going fast. Order today! Under 30? Ask about $20 Operatix!

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
April 24, 25, 27, 28, 30 and May 1
On line: ticketmaster.ca
Call: 416-872-5555
In person: Elgin Theatre Box Office, 189 Yonge Street

Opera Atelier Ticket Giveaway Winners

The contest is over, the Poppea mini-plots have been written and submitted, and we have 5 winners:

Gerrit Theule:

Attempted murder
Disguise - Mixup - Confession
Things we do for "love"

Opera Gal:

Poppeas gossip has Senaca fall on his knife while Nero plots much evil for sex after Ottavia is banished Poppea becomes Empress - Amore win

danny:

Power, lust and deception. Poppia seduces Nero to become empress

OperaGeek:

Fate of Poppea
For the crown, heart of Nero
by Monteverdi

Anonymous:

To hell with virtue and fortune, Love Conquers All! (That's Amore, And They Called it Poppy Love)

Thanks for competing! Each of these winners will receive 2 tickets to the April 29th showing of the Opera Atelier production of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea at the Elgin Theatre starting at 7:30pm. Congratulations to all of the winners and a huge awesomesauce thanks to Opera Atelier for making these tickets available. Unfortunately, I won't be at the show on the 29th since the only night I can go is the 28th.  I hope to be able to run more of these competitions in the future, and not just for events in Toronto...

Opera Atelier Ticket Giveaway: 5 Readers Will Each Win 2 Tickets to April 29 Poppea Performance

One of Toronto's most anticipated operatic events of the season is opening in a few days: Opera Atelier's production of The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi at the Elgin Theatre from April 25 to May 2. This production will feature an all-star lineup of singers, including Michael Maniaci, Kimberley Barber, João Fernandes, Carla Huhtanen, Peggy Kriha Dye, Cory Knight, Olivier Laquerre, Laura Pudwell, Vicki St. Pierre, Tracy Smith Bessette, and Curtis Sullivan.

Now here's the best part:

Opera Atelier will be generously giving away 5 sets of 2 tickets (10 in all) to readers of the Collaborative Piano Blog for the performance of April 29th.

Here's how it works...

Competition Rules and Regulations

1. Write a short synopsis of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea in 140 characters or less. Be inventive, clever, cunning, witty, or snide. Just be aware you have only 140 characters in which to tell the story of the opera.

2. Once you've written the pint-sized synopsis, you have to do two things: 

a) Email it to me at collaborativepiano [at] gmail dot com - this is so I can reach the authors of the winning entries.

b) Leave it as a comment on this posting so readers can follow the contest entries as they appear.

3. The deadline for entries is Friday, April 24 at 12pm Eastern Daylight Time. After that I'll go over all the entries, choose the winners, announce them in a separate post, and forward the winners' names and email addresses to the Opera Atelier office so they can be contacted by an OA staff member about how to pick up their free tickets on the 29th.

4. Note to Twitter users: if you're entering the competition and you want to rebroadcast your entry on Twitter, be sure to add the #poppea hashtag following your entry (which means that you'll only have 133 characters to write your synopsis).

5. If you wish to remain anonymous, you can either comment anonymously or invent a nom de plume for your comment. Just be sure to send me your real email address when you submit your entry to my email address (see 2a).

I would like to express heartfelt thanks to Opera Atelier for kindly making these tickets available to readers of the Collaborative Piano Blog. Best of luck to everyone! 

(Photo of Peggy Kriha Dye and Michael Maniaci by Bruce Zinger)