Content warning: child neglect, death, migration, strong language, trauma, war

When her mother dies, an adult Sophia confronts half-forgotten traumas from her childhood growing up under the shadow of war. A young Sophia and her sister Emma attempted to escape their grim circumstances – the adult world of violence, death and displacement – thr...

Content warning: infant death, suicidal thoughts

In the summer of 2007, CBC investigators Mary Wiens and John Nicol brought an enthralled listening audience the tale of a mummified baby found in the floorboards of an East Toronto home.  Further investigation to uncover the origins of the child, now known as “Baby Kintyre” revealed a cast of c...

Content warning: abuse, death, fire, violence

Fanny and Alexander is a grand opera in two acts, adapted from the film by Ingmar Bergman by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, with support from the Bergman Estate and artistic consultation from Cinematograph AB (Ingmar Bergman Jr. and Claes du Rietz).

ACT 1

Christmas at the Ekdahls.  Helena...

Content warning: mentions of death, murder of a child

Teenagers Léa and Ivy explore a struggling travelling carnival while waiting to meet up with Léa's overworked mother Manon. In the run-down haunted house the girls stumble upon the ghost of Marcel, a young boy who met a violent end in the basement of his school. Marcel asks to the girls to...