Katya Smirnoff-Skyy photo: José A. Guzman-Colon

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy's 'Spectacular'- Russian Opera Diva's Holiday Concert's Online

Jim Provenzano READ TIME: 1 MIN.

While fancy cocktails won't be served by waiters, you're welcome to imbibe at home as Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, our favorite local exiled Russian opera diva, takes to the online airwaves in a holiday-themed concert that'll make the Yuletide extra-gay.

This won't be another mere solo Zoom chat, but through the miracle of green-screen and other technologies, you can enjoy a fully staged cabaret concert with multiple musicians and guest-stars.

"I started the week we went into lockdown back in March, with two 'Quaran-Tuni' shows a week, then one; about fifty shows in all," said J. Conrad Frank, who has been performing online shows as his well-known drag persona Katya since March, and in-person at Martuni's for 15 years. The actor-singer performs from his apartment in "the Swish Alps" (aka Twin Peaks). But this show will be a bigger production.


by Jim Provenzano

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