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Europa
Content warning: abduction, sexual assault, violence

Europa was a Phoenician princess who was seduced and borne off to Crete by Zeus. There she bore him three sons, who became the founding fathers of Europe. It's telling that European civilization, which has been a mixed blessing for the rest of the world, was founded upon what could be seen ...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: Steven Heighton

Europa
Orpheus and Eurydice
Seeking his wife Eurydice in the underworld, Orpheus implores Hades to let him bring her back to life. Hades gives in reluctantly, on condition that Orpheus not look back at Eurydice while she is being led back to earth. The reunited couple begin their journey back. Hades praises the peacefulness of the underworld over the turbulence of life on ...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: André Alexis

Orpheus and Eurydice
Aeneas and Dido
Both Purcell’s and Virgil’s versions of Dido and Aeneas feature an Aeneas who is a man of action. He is what he does, in contrast to Dido, who is what she feels. Aeneas and Dido tries to imagine Aeneas’s interior life. What drives Aeneas to choose an uncertain quest for a new homeland over Dido’s offer of love and country? His heart has been tur...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: André Alexis

Aeneas and Dido
TAP:EX Augmented Opera
This fifth installment of the Tapestry Explorations (TAP:EX) series offers a take on a Silicon Valley product launch, where audiences are the first to learn about Elysium, a new cloud-based technology that reimagines the afterlife as a perfect curation of our best memories. This fictional product draws attention to the modern world developing ne...
Composer: Benton Roark
Librettists: Debi Wong, Benton Roark

TAP:EX Augmented Opera
Love Redux
A modern retelling of the famous love story of Helen and Paris. In a hotel room, some time into their relationship, Helen and Paris’s ardour seems to be fluctuating.
Composer: Benjamin Pesetsky
Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

Love Redux
Love Redux
Medusa’s Children
Content warning: misgendering, mentions of sexual assault, and implied violence

Chrysaor and Pegasus, children of the gorgon Medusa, have been living with their aunts Euryale and Stheno. They receive a message from their dead mother telling the story of her assault and murder by their father Poseidon. Rejecting his mother’s family, Chrysaor g...
Composer: Colin McMahon
Librettist: Charlie Petch

Medusa’s Children
M’dea Undone
Content warning: death, murder, suicide, xenophobia

Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...
Composer: John Harris
Librettist: Marjorie Chan

M’dea Undone
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Excerpts
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 1
Jason and Dahlia are getting married. The citizens gossip.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 8 – A Dinner Party
The President invites Jason to be his running mate, and begins to remake him. This process sidelines M'dea and Chase. Dahlia and Jason are attracted to one other.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 2: The President’s Office
The President threatens M'dea with prison or the loss of her son if she doesn't do as he wants. He warns her not to cause trouble for Jason.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 3: Fountain
M'dea has a breakdown and brings Chase to the fountain at Jason and Dahlia's, where she sees the ghost of her mother. She is discovered by Jason and Dahlia, and a fight ensues.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 4: Dahlia’s Bedroom
Dahlia convinces Jason to send M'dea away.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 5
M'dea tries once more to get Jason to stay with her, but he believes he will never forget his war crimes if she is in his life. M'dea eventually agrees to go back to her country.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 6: The Game (duet)
On the eve of their departure, M'dea and Chase play a gruesome game imagining ways to kill Dahlia the demoness.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 7
The President gives an election victory speech.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 8: Killing (aria)
Just before the wedding, Jason discovers Dahlia and the President murdered.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 9
The citizens gossip about the murder.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 10: Aftermath
After the murders, M'dea almost kills herself but is interrupted by Chase. They escape to the beach.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 11: The Beach
Pursued by Jason and the guards, M'dea and Chase climb a cliff by the ocean. When they reach the top, they play a version of their make-believe game, and jump off.
Medusa’s Aria
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’s Aria
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.
M’dea Undone – Act 2, Scene 6 (duet)
On the eve of their departure, M'dea and Chase play a gruesome game imagining ways to kill Dahlia the demoness.
TAP:EX Augmented Opera – Section 1: ” Product Launch”
Eurydice volunteers to test new A.I. technology that promises to capture your most vivid memories and curate your perfect virtual afterlife. Lab techs hand out eye masks to the audience.
TAP:EX Augmented Opera – Sections 2 and 3: “Descent Into Memory – Garden of the Subconscious”
Calliope and the Muses lead Eurydice C into her subconscious, to the memory of her first love.
TAP:EX Augmented Opera – Section 4: “Inner Sanctum”
In memory, Eurydice C's painter lover pushes her to allow him to paint her and make love to her, even though she is reluctant.
TAP:EX Augmented Opera – Section 5: “Fragments”
Eurydice C remembers different versions of her lover in an Arioso, Bourrée, and Passacaglia. She questions what might have been, before Calliope calls her back to the present.
TAP:EX Augmented Opera – Section 6: “Elysium”
Eurydice C is shown her Elysium with Orpheus in the garden - she is not sure she wants him there, but it fades before she can decide. The CEO brings her back to reality and closes the presentation.
Love Redux – Love Redux
Two lovers discuss what love is.
Love Redux – Paris’s Aria
Paris professes his love to Helen.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 10 (duet)
Dahlia's father encourages her to seduce Jason, and promises her she can have anything she wants.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 11: The Ballroom
The party is about to announce Jason's candidacy. Jason and Dahlia dance together, oblivious to all the others. Enraged, M'dea smashes a glass wall, showering fragments over the party guests.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 1
Jason, M'dea, and the soldiers return from war to a celebratory crowd. Some do not trust the new foreigner, M'dea.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 2
At a party, the Corporal mocks Jason for needing M'dea to help him win and for bringing her home.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 3
M'dea and Jason commit to loving each other and helping each other recover from the war and memories that haunt them.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 4
Jason and M'dea are expecting a baby. Citizens gossip about the couple.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 5: President Calling
At the President's office, Jason and the President discuss family, how to be a good father, and a possible future for Jason in politics.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 6: The Beach
A family outing to the beach turns into a photo op for the paparazzi.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 7: Revealed (aria)
In a dream state, M'dea recalls all she has done to survive.
M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 10: Dahlia’s Bedroom (duet)
Dahlia's father encourages her to seduce Jason, and promises her she can have anything she wants.
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