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    The Golden Boy
    The scene is divided into two sections: a tense argument between mother and child, and a tender aria for the mother as she finally reveals a painful truth to her son about the prolonged absence of his father.
    Composer: Darren J
    Librettist: Anusree Roy

    The Golden Boy
    The Golden Boy
    The Last Lullaby
    Content warning: war, death, gun violence

    A young mother with her infant daughter is threatened by an armed military officer escorting prisoners. She wants to wait for her husband, but the officer tells her he is probably already dead. The woman sings a lament to her baby, then pleads with the officer to take her baby and raise her as his own.
    Composer: Jana Skarecky
    Librettist: Anusree Roy

    The Last Lullaby
    The Last Lullaby
    The Waterfall (LIBLAB)
    Content warning: death, infanticide, murder

    A rumble of hooves. A family is fleeing, but the baby is slowing them down. The mother is forced to choose between her husband and her child. She chooses the husband and tries to get the baby to sleep before letting it go over a waterfall. At the last minute, the baby awakes, and the mother’s grief ...
    Composer: Norbert Palej
    Librettist: Maja Ardal

    The Waterfall (LIBLAB)
    The Waterfall (LIBLAB)
    Of the Sea
    Content warning: descriptions of enslavement, violence, sexual violence, death

    A father will do anything to save his daughter. Of the Sea follows the story of Maduka, his daughter Binyelum, and fellow Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage who now populate mythical underwater kingdoms that span the ocean floor. Amidst the waves, ...
    Composer: Ian Cusson
    Librettist: Kanika Ambrose

    Of the Sea
    The Virgin Charlie
    Charlie is performing in a show, and while backstage receives an unexpected visit from the Virgin Mary. Mary has news for Charlie: he is pregnant with the son of God. The little messiah has come to fulfill a prophecy - will armageddon strike the earth, or will forgiveness once again save it all?
    Composer: William Rowson
    Librettist: Taylor Graham

    The Virgin Charlie
    Gotcha!
    It’s “gotcha day” – the term used for the first meeting between birth parents and adopted children – and Adam is about to meet his birth mother, Eileen. The reunion goes awry and they begin to wonder who has got whom.
    Composer: Darren Fung
    Librettist: Betty-Jane Wylie

    Gotcha!
    Gotcha!
    Rocking Horse Winner
    Content warning: illness, death

    Rocking Horse Winner primarily explores the relationship between Paul, a young adult, and his emotionally distant mother, Ava.

    Paul is driven to bridge the relationship with his mother, but Ava s...
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    Rocking Horse Winner
    Leaving
    Content warning: mental illness

    Simone has been battling undiagnosed postpartum depression, and is losing. She decides to leave, packing her bags, and her husband Marc begs her to explain. As their son sleeps in the next room, she leaves, and Marc doesn’t try to stop her.
    Composer: Darren J
    Librettist: Sharon Bajer

    Leaving
    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
    TAP:EX Metallurgy
    Punk and operatic virtuosity collide in Tapestry’s third installment of the Tapestry Explorations (TAP:EX) series. Metallurgy is a collaboration between Jonah Falco and Mike Haliechuk of F*cked Up, the Polaris Prize-winning punk provocateurs, and two of Canada’s most masterful and versatile opera singers, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and tenor ...
    Composers: Ivan Barbotin, Jonah Falco, Mike Haliechuk
    Librettist: David James Brock

    TAP:EX Metallurgy
    TAP:EX Metallurgy
    TAP:EX Metallurgy
    TAP:EX Metallurgy
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    Excerpts
    The Virgin Charlie – “Step ever so softly now…” (aria)

    Drag performer Charlie sings a number in the persona of the Virgin Mary.

    Gotcha! – Gotcha!

    First meeting of an adult son and his birth mother.

    Rocking Horse Winner – Scene 10: Ava and Paul

    Paul begs his rocking horse for more luck for the Derby. Ava decides Paul’s been too agitated lately, and the distance between them grows wider. Ava leaves his room and bemoans Paul’s lack of understanding. She deserves luxury now and then, and Paul robs her of comfort. As if on cue, she hears Paul noisily riding his rocking horse again. Whil...

    Leaving – Leaving

    A mother with postpartum depression leaves her husband and son.

    The Virgin Charlie – Scene 3

    In his dressing room, Mother Mary explains to Charlie that he is pregnant with the son of god and offers him tips from her experience. Eventually, Charlie accepts that he will be a parent, and vows to protect the new messiah.

    The Virgin Charlie – Scene 2

    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.

    The Virgin Charlie – Scene 1

    In his dressing room, drag performer Charlie puts on his Virgin Mary costume, witnessed by the real Virgin Mary inside his mirror.

    The Virgin Charlie – “Charlie, please listen…” (aria)

    The Virgin Mary explains to Charlie why he has been chosen to carry the child of God.

    Leaving – “I spend my days looking” (aria)

    Simone describes her postpartum depression and wonders how it is that she cannot love her own child.

    The Golden Boy – The Golden Boy

    After a painful argument, a mother tells her son the truth of his father's absence and tries to comfort him.

    Rocking Horse Winner – “Now I’m All Nerves” (aria)

    Ava bemoans Paul's lack of understanding, and her need for luxury.

    Rocking Horse Winner – Scene 1: Ava at the piano (aria)

    A waltz is cut short. Ava discloses how far she’s fallen, and how difficult she finds caring for her son.

    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.

    TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – final movement

    Duet between the woman and a violin, symbolizing her daughter.

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