Kiri Te Kanawa, Paul Anka part of Toronto performance season

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will make a stop on her farewell tour and Paul Anka will celebrate 50 years in show business as part of the 2007-8 season at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall.

New Zealand born soprano Te Kanawa will perform works by Mozart, Strauss and Puccin in Toronto, on her stop in the midst of a world farewell tour.

Ottawa-born Anka, who became a pop sensation at 16 with his hit Diana, is on a 50th anniversary tour and recently released an album, My Way, featuring new recordings of some of the many songs he has written in his career.

His face is also gracing a postage stamp this year.

The 2007-8 performance season, announced Monday, also features concerts by Canadian opera star Measha Brueggergosman, pianist Yundi Li, jazz great Chick Corea and Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor.

Roy Thomson Hall kicks off its 25th anniversary season with a concert by the La Scala Philharmonic, accompanied by Canadian tenor Ben Heppner.

The resident orchestra of Milan's famed opera house Teatro alla Scala is to be conducted by Riccardo Chailly in its Roy Thomson Hall debut.

Heppner, a famed Wagnerian singer who performed last year at the opening of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, will take part in a program with selections from Die Walkure and Lohengrin.

The Kirov Orchestra, conducted bymaestro Valery Gergiev, is also to appear as part of the virtuoso performance series that features La Scala Philharmonic and pianist Li, who won the 2000 Warsaw Chopin competition.

International guests include Asha Bhosle, a singer known as the "Nightingale of India," who will appear next April. She has recorded thousands of songs for lip-synching actors in Bollywood movies.

TheYamato Drummers of Japan and Ravi Shankar, the guru of Indian classical music, appearing with his daughter Anoushka Shankar, are also on the program.

At Massey Hall, the jazz, blues and singer-songwriter programs feature Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy, Israeli-Canadian jazz singer Sophie Milman, Canadian rock musician Matthew Good, country rockers Cowboy Junkies and singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith.

Tickets for the season go on sale Aug. 15 for members and Aug. 20 for the general public.