Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour Begins Nov. 27

Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour Begins Nov. 27 in Montreal. From there, the 23-year-old pop singer from New York City will perform in Toronto and Ottawa before coming to America.

She will return to the Great White North on Dec. 9 and 10 for a couple of Lady Gaga concerts at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

The Diva is billing The Monster Ball Tour as a "pop-electro opera," whatever that means. The Monster Ball was thrown together after a planned outing with Kanye West was canceled in early October.

"I wanted to really put together a show that would be the most beautiful, expensive-looking, delicious show, but that my fans wouldn't have to pay a ton of money to come see.," Gaga told Rolling Stone magazine. "I've got super loyal fans, so I feel this tremendous obligation to take care of them."

A "beautiful, expensive-looking, delicious show" that fans won't "have to pay a ton of money to come see" is code for "cheap." However, Gaga is a consummate professional. She'll more than make up for any short comings in production with her energetic and captivating stage presence.

On Nov. 24 Lady Gaga is releasing a new album... kinda. This new opus is called The Fame Monster. It's a repackaging of her tremendously successful The Fame with an additional eight new songs.

We're not sure if this is laziness, greed, or a real treat for her fans.

On one hand, if you don't already own the album the eight extra songs are a great incentive to finally buy it.

If you already own the album are eight songs enough to make you want to buy it again (assuming you're not going to download the new tracks)?

And couldn't Gaga just add a few more songs to the eight and release an entirely new album?

Regardless, the newly repackaged album is being incorporated into her tour. "Monsters" will be a theme for some of her show's visuals. In particular, personal demons or the wrongs we've committed as flawed and fragile human beings.

"I believe, that innately we're all born with the monsters already inside of us — I guess in Christianity they call it original sin — the prospect that we will, at some point, sin in our lives, and we will, at some point, have to face our own demons, and they're already inside of us," preached Gaga.

The idea of original sin eventually developed into another source of inspiration for Gaga's upcoming tour, evolution.

"We started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another,” Gaga waxed.

Fans will be able to see what the heck she's talking about when Lady Gaga performs in Los Angeles and San Francisco this fall. Lady Gaga is also selling tickets for a concert in Miami.

The Monster Ball Tour wraps up Jan. 21, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. In March, Gaga launches a tour of Australia.

Thanks to her on-line success—20 million downloads sold—Gaga is one of the biggest-selling artists of 2009. She just completed her first headlining trek, The Fame Ball Tour, at the end of September. Prior to that, Gaga opened for New Kids On The Block and The Pussycat Dolls.