CAST: Marianne Irina Botezatu | PHOTO CREDIT: Mirez La View more photos below - click here OVERVIEW Title: La pagaille des violonsComposer: Diana CotomanLibrettist: Diana CotomanLanguage: FrenchRun Time: 12Roles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description Musicamiddle-highD4-E5Musica, the Goddess of Music. Can be sung also by a soprano.Pizzitonsmiddle-highG3-E5Children's voicesArchetonsmiddle-highB3-E5Children's voices Please
The Goddess of Music reconciles the tribe of the arco violin players with the tribe of pizzicato players, inviting them to make music together.
Medusa sings from beyond the grave, reaching out to her children and her two sisters. She tells the story of her rape by the god Poseidon and murder by the hero Perseus.
Pegasus recounts a dream in which their mother Medusa asks them to find her severed head. They reflect on the harrowing circumstances of their birth and their relationship with their brother Chrysaor and father Poseidon.
Maupin remembers her romance with the Countess de Florensac.
The performer echoes lines poetry from the Prologue, reflecting on the meaning of Maupin’s story.
The performer sings a poem by Aphra Behn (1640-1689) about an androgynous queer lover.
La Maupin introduces herself to the audience, sharing some of the gossip that has been spread about her.
Louise is ready. She chooses a climb, exploring and unleashing her own full voice as she travels upward.
The Mother appears at the window. She shares memories, loving praise and admonishments. The development of her child’s talent and success has been her life’s focus.
Qu Yuan wanders into the southern wilderness. As he travels, he composes a lament for himself and his lost position in court. In the present, Xiao Lian’s Father senses his end is near. Summoning up his strength, he joins with the spirit of Qu Yuan to tell the final chapter.
CAST: Camille Rogers | PHOTO CREDIT: Lauren HalaszCAST: Trevor Chartrand and Camille Rogers View more photos below - click here OVERVIEW Title: La MaupinComposer: Colin McMahonLibrettist: Camille RogersCommissioned By: Camille RogersLanguage: EnglishProducer: Camille RogersRun Time: 35Roles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description Maupinmiddle-highA3-A5A queer, gender-non-conforming opera singer, living in France
Drag performer Charlie sings a number in the persona of the Virgin Mary.
The Virgin Mary explains to Charlie why he has been chosen to carry the child of God.
Charlie sings gently to his child, the Messiah, who he has been chosen to bear.
Charlie performs the first number of his act: Mother Mary in the nativity scene, with the worries of a new mother carrying the son of god.
Queen Liz imagines what it would be like to be free.
Traumatized by her experiences, Alessandra reflects on her work as a translator in an American military prison.
Colonel Crane, Alessandra’s supervisor, tersely tells her to lose what her perceives as her naive sense of morality: “We are just here to win.”
The Shaman explains the end of the couple’s tale.
Raoul still hasn’t paid off his debt. Allegra arrives and tells him she has lost the ring, not knowing that he is also Hernando.
Wandering in a big box store, Amalia dreams of what can be accomplished with hardware.
Amalia critiques the two screwdrivers and chooses the Robertson.
Robertson, still sad, hopes his screwdriver will still be of use to others.
In the afterlife, Henry Ford invites Robertson to present his screwdriver.
Amalia critiques the two screwdrivers and chooses the Robertson.
Robertson in his shop, Amalia (present day) in her bathroom with her antique vanity, Phillips in his workshop, also injured by a screw driver slip.
Phillips sings the praises of his new screwdriver.
Amalia dreams of what can be accomplished with hardware.
Robertson demonstrates the new “automatic spiral ratchet spring-loaded screw driver,” affectionately called the “Yankee.” The demonstration is cut short when the driver slips off the single slot screw, injuring Robertson’s hand.
A young woman, Laurel, runs through a dark forest, filled with anxiety and haunted by disturbing memories.
Laurel stabs the Stranger, killing him. As his body slides to the ground to rest at her feet, she begins to feel a new sense of freedom, not realising that it is at the cost of her conscience and her humanity. The aria should be performed with an improvisational blues
The Queen of the Amazon Ants laments the fallen state of her realm to her lone remaining subject. She decides she must find a mate.
Daniel sings of his fear at the prospect of going down into the cellar of his childhood home, after his father has died.
Judith sings angrily at her brother when he expresses his desire to leave their childhood home after their father has died.
A short scene, sampling the wedding scene where Elaine screams for Ben.
A celebration of iconic Hitchcock film moments, sampling from The Birds.
Using quintessential recordings of Maria Callas arias, an aspiring soprano engages with the full and intense presence of her idol. What begins as suffocation and frustration ends as confidence as the soprano gains a deeper understanding of her idol: she’s human. They both are.
A celebration of iconic Hitchcock film moments, sampling from The Man Who Knew Too Much, Psycho, and The Birds.
A deconstruction of moments in The Sound of Music.
Hope introduces the pilot to her family. He leaves, and Hope argues with her parents about going with him.
Hope grows up quickly, climbing out of her crib as a woman of twenty-one. She sings to herself, wanting to leave the house.
Waking early, Agnieska admires her new lover Sumana as she is sleeping.
Agnieska questions why all of her previous relationships have failed.
Excited by the possibility of a night with a new lover, Sumana anxiously expresses her anticipation.
Shanawdithit reprimands Cormack for his saviour complex.
Cormack presents his findings about Shanawdithit to the members of the Beothuk institute.
Shanawdithit, dying, speaks to her ancestors. She is ready to leave this world.
James and Sydney start their journey. Sydney remembers being young and playing in the forest with her friend Penny. One day, they are both captured, and the family herd is shot.
Sydney on her first day at the zoo. Frightened and alone, she thinks of her homeland.
Sydney and James arrive in Tennessee, remembering their 22 years together. They say goodbye.
Ava bemoans Paul’s lack of understanding, and her need for luxury.
A waltz is cut short. Ava discloses how far she’s fallen, and how difficult she finds caring for her son.
A woman cryptically remembers her past as she is briefly examined by three different people.
OVERVIEW Title: RestorationComposer: Gareth WilliamsLibrettist: Michael PollardCommissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist LaboratoryLanguage: EnglishProducer: Tapestry OperaRoles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description Blockamiddle-highG#3-Gb4A woman being examined by doctors Please Note: The table above has content that is scrollable left to right.Orchestration: Piano SYNOPSIS A woman is being examined by various doctors.
A man recounts his prior murders.
An old drunk recounts his failed marriage.
A bar manager recounts the night she heard Frederick Chopin play piano, and the effect it had on her relationship with the bar’s resident piano player.
Having escaped forced confinment in a basement, a girl approaches a stranger. She asks if the stranger knows her, as she tries to remember her past.
OVERVIEW Title: OublietteComposer: Ivan BarbotinLibrettist: Donna-Michelle St. BernardCommissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist LaboratoryLanguage: EnglishProducer: Tapestry OperaRun Time: 4Roles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description Lauramiddle-highC4-Ab5A newly escaped captive Please Note: The table above has content that is scrollable left to right.Orchestration: Piano Video Recording View more videos below - click
Jackie demands Alex say something, but Alex doesn’t. Erica paces.
A woman makes an appeal that the metal of her bell shouldn’t be used for a war machine.
In a letter, Jaan asks if Noor still loves her.
Sophie, the manifestation of Ray’s soul sings an extended aria explaining how she has been locked away from Ray since he was a child.
Ray frantically tries to calm himself by reciting scientific jargon, while a being claiming to be his own child self tries to open the door.
Sophie, the manifestation of Ray’s soul sings an extended aria explaining how she has been locked away from Ray since he was a child.
Alone in his hotel room, Ray worries that he hit someone with his car on the road. After fearing it might have been a child, he convinces himself it was only a raccoon.
As Sophie runs a bath in the distance, Ray reflects on how uncomfortable bathing makes him feel.
Ray sings of the ambivalence his parents felt towards him as a child.
Ray, a jaded neurosurgeon, muses on the loss of his childhood wonder and innocence.
Julia remembers the love she felt for her son Paul when he was a baby.
A man tries to write a letter home, but he cannot find the right words. He burns each rejected attempt.
Duet between the woman and a violin, symbolizing her daughter.
OVERVIEW Title: Morning PrayersComposer: Afarin MansouriLibrettist: Jessica Murphy MooCommissioned By: Tapestry Opera's Composer-Librettist LaboratoryLanguage: EnglishProducer: Tapestry OperaRun Time: 7Roles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description TenormiddleG2-G4An Iranian man Please Note: The table above has content that is scrollable left to right.Orchestration: Piano Video Recording View more videos below - click
Just before the wedding, Jason discovers Dahlia and the President murdered.
In a dream state, M’dea recalls all she has done to survive.
“A perfect score is all that counts.” Lisa fixates on the consequences of her test and predicts that Annie and Caroline will banish her from “the circle of three” because of her imperfect score. She blames Mr. Herwin.
Simone describes her postpartum depression and wonders how it is that she cannot love her own child.
Angry and frustrated at her physical inability to play, Jacqueline cancels her remaining performances.
Jacqueline remembers happy times with her cello in childhood.
Jacqueline experiences symptoms, but her physical illness is undiagnosed, and she is instead told it is hysterical or psychosomatic.
Jacqueline enjoys telling a joke about some monks’ sexual arousal.
Jacqueline, the child, tells her cello they will play great concert halls and make records.
Jacqueline remembers playing in the fields with her sister in her childhood, and the fragrance of wildflowers.
Jackie tells us how she can blur the lines between fantasy and reality at will. She can escape the confines of her chair by dreaming of bathing in the sea. She wonders where Daniel is, and who he’s seeing.
Delirious, Jackie envisions running to the ocean again through the fields, this time with her sister, Hilary. She asks that Hilary not tell Daniel about the disease.
On a phone call with her mother, Jackie is admonished. She begs her mother to visit. She’s alone with fragments of memory.
In her prime, Jackie admits she finds the pace of touring life dizzying. The sycophants at parties are starting to get to her.
In her prime. At a post-gala cocktail party, Jackie ironically confesses she has a terrible disease: glissando-itis.
Comparing herself to Samson, Jackie and her husband have a tangled night of love one rainy night.
CAST: Marnie Breckenridge and Matt Haimovitz | PHOTO CREDIT: Dahlia KatzCAST: Marnie Breckenridge and Matt Haimovitz | PHOTO CREDIT: Dahlia Katz View more photos below - click here OVERVIEW Title: JacquelineComposer: Luna Pearl WoolfLibrettist: Royce VavrekCommissioned By: Tapestry OperaProducer: Tapestry OperaRun Time: 107Roles: Role Voice Type Range ? Character Description JacquelinehighC4-C6A
Aboard a ship taking Chinese workers to British Columbia – they are hungry & thirsty. Ah Lum starts a fight with Lai Gwan, who is disguised as a young man, but they stop as the coast comes into view.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
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