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    Operas
    You and Meme
    An awkward first date seems destined for failure, until the two bond over a mutual love of memes. The result? A hot, steamy connection over goats.
    Composer: Dean Burry
    Librettist: Nicolas Billon

    You and Meme
    You and Meme
    Elsewhereless
    Content warning: genocide, colonialism, death, gun violence, death of a child, violence against animals

    “Nothing is as comforting as captivity.”

    Beth, a young diplomat, and her husband Andrew are stationed at a Canadian Embassy in Africa. They are troubled by news of political upheaval, forced migrations and indiscriminate slaughter. They ...
    Composer: Rodney Sharman
    Librettist: Atom Egoyan

    Elsewhereless
    The Waterfall
    Content warning: sexual harassment, violence, fire

    A northern land, the end of winter. A cold, dusky pre-dawn on the edge of a mountain; across the valley roars a mighty waterfall. In this valley there are two farms, one poor - owned by Runa, a single woman - and one rich, owned by Olaf, who wishes Runa for his bride.

    Olaf proposes to Runa...
    Composer: Norbert Palej
    Librettist: Maja Ardal

    The Waterfall
    The Waterfall
    Sanctuary Song
    An opera for all ages. Sydney, an Asian elephant poached at a young age from the jungles of Indonesia, recalls her remarkable life in captivity, far from home, as her keeper of 22 years leads her on a journey towards sanctuary in the hills of Tennessee. A dynamic weaving of opera and dance unearths friendships lost and found and restores a stole...
    Composer: Abigail Richardson
    Librettist: Marjorie Chan

    Sanctuary Song
    Sanctuary Song
    The Last Life
    A farmer lovingly takes care of his brown cow, not knowing he and the cow have met before in past lives, once in the 18th century and again in the 20th.
    Composer: Katya Pine
    Librettist: Sharon Bajer

    The Last Life
    Harper’s Floe
    A historical reenactment: Prime Minister Stephen Harper sets off to the Arctic to claim dominion over a particular ice floe. Mr. Valernikov, a Russian seal, mistakes Harper for a full-figured female seal and propositions him. After sorting out the misunderstanding, Valernikov claims Harper is in Russian waters. Harper, chagrined, tries to make h...
    Composer: Norbert Palej
    Librettist: Charles Hayter

    Harper’s Floe
    Harper’s Floe
    Chicken or Beef?
    Each of two brother bulls attempts to convince the other to enter the barn. Neither wants to go, knowing their lives are at stake. The two flatter, dare, and challenge one another, until a race finally settles it: first one to the barn wins. Sort of.
    Composer: Justine F. Chen
    Librettist: David James Brock

    Chicken or Beef?
    Chicken or Beef?
    Hydrophis Expedition
    "My real voice is my cry: OPEN YOUR EYES."

    The Hydrophis is a Deep Sea Submergence Vehicle (DSV) that takes scientists on extreme-depth expeditions to research and explore. During a recent expedition, a rare jellyfish, Stygiomedus Gigantea, has been captured on film. It is rarely seen but thought to be one of the largest invertebrate predator...
    Composer: Benton Roark
    Librettist: Colleen Murphy

    Hydrophis Expedition
    The Colony
    While out on a hunt for a new mate, The Queen of the Amazon Ants and one of her subjects find themselves under attack.

    The Queen wears low cut, tight-fitting army fatigues that accentuate her shapely thorax and abdomen, and a pair of black calf-high combat boots. The Queen also has two large antennae growing out of her head because she is an ...
    Composer: Kevin Morse
    Librettist: Lisa Codrington

    The Colony
    The Colony
    Nigredo Hotel
    A ‘Hitchcock-style thriller’ for baritone and soprano, Nigredo Hotel is “the story of a neurosurgeon, a man of science, who has lost his soul. One night he thinks he has hit a child on the road and hides out in a decrepit, Hitchcockian motel run by a monstrous concierge called Sophie. The terrifying crone — his anima — locks him into his room an...
    Composer: Nic Gotham
    Librettist: Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Nigredo Hotel
    Mousetrap
    In a video game, two mice are navigating through a house when suddenly they encounter a giant squirrel.
    Composer: Rene Orth
    Librettist: Lila Palmer

    Mousetrap
    Mousetrap
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    Excerpts
    Sanctuary Song – Scene 4: Alone (aria)

    Sydney on her first day at the zoo. Frightened and alone, she thinks of her homeland.

    Nigredo Hotel – “If it was a man” (aria)

    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.

    Sanctuary Song – Scene 5: First Meeting

    Sydney and James meet for the first time. Though both are nervous, they connect with each other.

    Sanctuary Song – Scene 6: Arrival

    Sydney and James arrive in Tennessee, remembering their 22 years together. They say goodbye.

    Sanctuary Song – Scene 7: Reunion

    Sydney exits the train with James at the Sanctuary and sees her old friend Penny. They reunite lovingly. Sydney and James say their final goodbye.

    The Colony – “No Ants?!”

    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.

    The Last Life – The Last Life

    Former lovers are reincarnated and reunited, but this time around one is a farmer and one is his cow.

    The Waterfall – Part 1

    On the first warm spring day in the mountains, Olaf, a rich farmer, proposes to Runa, a poor farmer, only to discover that she is in love with the bandit Davith. Angered by this, Olaf burns down Runa's farm, and Runa escapes up the mountain searching for Davith.

    You and Meme – You and Meme

    An awkward first date seems destined for failure, until the two bond over a mutual love of memes. The result? A hot, steamy connection over goats.

    Sanctuary Song – Scene 3: Fire

    Sydney is injured in a fire and sold to the zoo.

    Sanctuary Song – Scene 2: Capture

    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.

    Sanctuary Song – Prologue/Scene 1: Goodbye

    As he tries to get into the train car, James explains to Sydney the elephant why it is best for her to leave the zoo for a new home.

    Mousetrap – Mousetrap

    In a video game, two mice are navigating through a house when suddenly they encounter a giant squirrel.

    Hydrophis Expedition – Hydrophis Expedition (Close Your Eyes)

    In a deep sea submergence vehicle, a crew voyages in search of a sea creature whose gaze can cause burns to the eyes.

    Hydrophis Expedition – Serpent’s Aria

    An undersea monster sings to the scientists observing her.

    Harper’s Floe – Harper’s Floe

    While claiming sovereignty of an ice floe, Harper meets a seal, then drowns as the floe melts.

    Elsewhereless – Scene 11: “We’re frightened”

    Beth and Andrew demand Antoine that they be allowed to leave. He will keep them there forever because he wants to see them all become heroes and redeem his initial banishment with Eugene. Antoine grabs the dead monkey and begins to dance with it. A bullet explodes through the window, hitting Antoine and he falls to the ground.

    Elsewhereless – Scene 7: “Good evening Malcolm”

    The action continues from scene 3. Beth and Andrew are waiting for their guest, Duncan, but Antoine arrives instead and cuts into the live monkey's skullcap without hesitation. He recounts how he almost wrote Malcolm a letter of recommendation.

    Elsewhereless – Scene 3: “All reports that innocent people”

    Beth reads Andrew a memo from a political figure denying the murder of innocent people and claiming that suspensions of civil liberties are essential. Beth and Andrew go downstairs for dinner, where Malcolm has prepared them a live monkey.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Black Lion”

    The soloists describe AIDS as a black lion and a pack of hyenas, while the chorus continues listing medications.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Zoonosis” (aria)

    Recounts the presumed origin of the HIV virus, initially as SIV non-human primates in Central Africa.

    Chicken or Beef? – Chicken or Beef?

    Each of two brother bulls attempts to convince the other to enter the barn. Neither wants to go, knowing their lives are at stake. The two flatter, dare, and challenge one another, until a race finally settles it: first one to the barn wins. Sort of.

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