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    1984: Piece of Paper
    Winston Smith helps Julia after she trips. This seemingly mundane interaction upends Smith’s world when he reads the note Julia slips into his hand. The words carry so much promise- and so much danger, in the context of an authoritarian government.
    Composer: Chris Thornborrow
    Librettist: Nicolas Billon

    1984: Piece of Paper
    1984: Piece of Paper
    a little rain must fall
    Rain and Simone are in the kitchen, prepping dinner. Things are weirdly tense. Suddenly, Rain snaps and accuses Simone of killing his ex-girlfriend, Sally. Of course, Rain doesn’t really have proof of this (other than the time Simone killed a Yorkie for biting her - but they’re an aggressive breed). Simone tries to placate Rain. She’s always bee...
    Composer: Chris Thornborrow
    Librettist: David Yee

    a little rain must fall
    a little rain must fall
    (What Rhymes With) Azimuth
    A summer evening. A writer is experiencing a bit of writer’s block as she is sitting in an outdoor cafe in an historic area of town. She looks around for inspiration and happens to see a man looking at the stars with binoculars. Clouds block his view, and when he looks around he catches her glance and smiles. Is he really there? Or is he just in...
    Composer: Ivan Barbotin
    Librettist: Liza Balkan

    (What Rhymes With) Azimuth
    (What Rhymes With) Azimuth
    Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind
    Content warning: AIDS, death, illness

    The interior of a thumping, vibrating gay nightclub with obligatory disco ball and coloured strobe lights. A middle-aged gentleman is sitting at the bar, back to the audience, lost in his thoughts and seemingly oblivious to his surroundings. The truth is he isn't used to going to clubs, or hasn't since th...
    Composer: Andrew Staniland
    Librettist: Jill Battson

    Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind
    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
    Bandits in the Valley
    The Don Valley. 1880, Toronto.

    Join George Taylor and the travelling Gilbert & Sullivan theatrical troupe The Vagabonds in a twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the birth of his papermill. Unbeknownst to him, Jeremiah - the leader of a local small-potatoes bandit group called The Rift Rafters - just discovered a long-hidden secret abo...
    Composer: Benton Roark
    Librettist: Julie Tepperman

    Bandits in the Valley
    Dance til the sun sets
    An entire relationship in microcosm, from first meeting to last sunset together. This piece uses a couple’s dancing together as a metaphor for their time passing.
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Marjorie Chan

    Dance til the sun sets
    Dance til the sun sets
    Eva
    A son gets caught sleeping with his father's girlfriend, Eva. A three-way fight erupts, the son professing his love for Eva and vice versa, while the father warns they’ll betray each other soon enough. They leave, and the father grieves the loss of them both.
    Composer: Stephen Andrew Taylor
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    Eva
    Eva
    TAP:EX Forbidden
    Content warning: sexual violence, incarceration, religious abuse, homophobia, conversion therapy

    Through several vignettes, Forbidden examines the idea of rules and taboos. Do they protect people, or do they control them? Are they of any value, or do they simply exploit the powerless?

    A young girl, punished with repetition of religious tex...
    Composer: Afarin Mansouri
    Librettist: Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

    TAP:EX Forbidden
    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!
    Guitar
    Singer-songwriter Josie works on a song in her shared Portland apartment, a girl-at-the-guitar on the cusp of leaving for New York City and a long-anticipated big break. Though her luggage is packed and she’s almost out the door, her boyfriend interjects with objections—he’ll miss her. Josie’s reassurances, dreams of him visiting her on the East...
    Composer: Elisabeth Mehl Greene
    Librettist: Norman Yeung

    Guitar
    Hook Up
    Content warning: explicit language, sexual violence, sexual content, alcohol, blackout drinking

    Hook Up tells the story of three friends who have made it to university, each with their own unique desires and inner conflicts. Mindy is just excited to keep her high school friend circle together and finally get some privacy with her boyfriend. T...
    Composer: Chris Thornborrow
    Librettist: Julie Tepperman

    Hook Up
    Hotel Lobby
    Two exes, each with their new partner, run into each other in a hotel lobby. Unresolved tension and suppressed emotions resurface in an awkward encounter no one will forget.
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Maja Ardal

    Hotel Lobby
    Hotel Lobby
    In This World, George is Heartbroken
    Content warning: verbal abuse

    George and Martha have three very different versions of a difficult conversation over breakfast. The first two represent what happens in George’s mind when his wife insults him over breakfast. One is violent and reactionary, with George screaming and verbally abusing Martha. The other is more considered, as Georg...
    Composer: Lembit Beecher
    Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

    In This World, George is Heartbroken
    Lost and Found
    Lost and Found is a sexy tango encounter between two lost travelers who don’t share a common language, but bond over the serendipitous lexical delight of learning that the word “mango” is gloriously, sensuously, mutually intelligible. Jubilant over their shared discovery, the man asks the woman about returning to his place posthaste. The travele...
    Composer: Elisabeth Mehl Greene
    Librettist: Sharon Bajer

    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
    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
    Man in Avalanche
    Content warning: death

    Trapped and encased by an avalanche, a man thinks only of his wife and finding a way out. Meanwhile, his wife is filled with suspicion. She thinks he’s having an affair, and his silence is the proof. Between the two, Death sings of the ways it brings about disaster.
    Composer: Norbert Palej
    Librettist: David James Brock

    Man in Avalanche
    Man in Avalanche
    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
    Mother Everest
    Content warning: death

    Just below the summit of Mount Everest on the south summit ridge, Jackie and her partner Pasang are celebrating that she is the first woman to reach the summit without oxygen. Then something changes. Could it be Mother Everest punishing the climbers?
    Composer: Abigail Richardson
    Librettist: Marjorie Chan

    Mother Everest
    Mother Everest
    Noor Over Afghan
    Noor Over Afghan is set in Afghanistan, and tells the story of two young Afghani sisters, Noor and Jaan. But Jaan is dying, and begs Noor to take her place in the marriage and have her child. By the time the groom finds out, Jaan will have died. They swap places, Noor disguised by the veil.
    Composer: Christiaan Venter
    Librettist: Anusree Roy

    Noor Over Afghan
    Noor Over Afghan
    Opposites Attract
    Across eight brief vignettes, couples experience small moments of frustration, miscommunication, and attraction.
    Composer: Iman Habibi
    Librettist: Phoebe Tsang

    Opposites Attract
    Opposites Attract
    Perfect Night
    A Woman and Man in bed.  Naked.  Or nearly.  The Man reads to the Woman.  Poetry by Irving Layton.  They have the house to themselves.  They are reconnecting, finally, after their youngest kid has headed off to college.  It’s a perfect night.  Until the mosquito shows up.
    Composer: Jana Skarecky
    Librettist: Nick Carpenter

    Perfect Night
    Perfect Night
    Pub Operas (The Sloans Project)
    Content warning: murder, death, corpse

    Composer Gareth Williams and librettist David James Brock created a site-specific promenade opera inspired by Glasgow's oldest pub, Sloans. The audience moves through the 250-year-old pub and encounters a series of scenes telling stories of love, loss, revenge and forgiveness.
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: David James Brock

    Pub Operas (The Sloans Project)
    Pub Operas (The Sloans Project)
    Pursuit
    Content warning: stalking

    A young barista seems to know a surprising amount about one of the customers at her cafe.
    Composer: Iman Habibi
    Librettist: Jessica Murphy Moo

    Pursuit
    Pursuit
    Rip
    The piece opens in the middle of a reverse custody battle, with each party demanding the other take their son, Simon.  Carla believes her son will grow up dysfunctional without a father, and Peter claims he’ll do nothing but cry for her.  Interspersed with their fighting is the occasional instruction to Simon, indicating he’s in the room, a witn...
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    Rip
    Rip
    Rosa
    Content warning: death, sex work

    After the tragic death of her first child, a baby daughter, Isabelle has run away to another town in Spain to escape the grief, leaving her husband Hector with a double loss. They are a working-class couple. The scene opens with Isabelle expecting a client in a seedy bordello. Hector has found her. He entreats...
    Composer: James Rolfe
    Librettist: Camyar Chai

    Rosa
    Rosa
    See Saw
    Content warning: suicidal thoughts

    A comedy. Trish laments her breakup with Ralph. She is desolate and considers suicide. Gina scolds Trish for over-dramatization and urges her to move on in her life. She succeeds in getting Trish to agree to go out for a drink at a bar nearby. They are intercepted by Ralph (on his bicycle) carrying a box of ...
    Composer: Andrew Staniland
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    See Saw
    See Saw
    She Sees Her Lover
    Agnieska and Sumana share a night together after meeting in a bar. The night, however intimate, has vastly different meanings to each woman. While Sumana is brimming with the excitement of a first chance at love, Agnieska is haunted by memories of her romantic past.

    The next morning, Agnieska wakes early and admires her new lover Sumana as sh...
    Composer: Craig Galbraith
    Librettist: Leanna Brodie

    She Sees Her Lover
    She Sees Her Lover
    Shelter
    Content warning: birth

    A nuclear family adrift in the atomic age. Since Prometheus stole fire from the gods, we have flirted with the dangerous beauty of science. In this cartoon fable, a father protects his family at any cost.

    Thomas and Claire fall madly in love at a fundraising party. Thomas has decided to “find a wife, get a life,” whi...
    Composer: Juliet Palmer
    Librettist: Julie Salverson

    Shelter
    Sleep, Sleep
    A woman and her grown son are leaving their home. It’s time for bed, but the boy insists they play his favourite game one last time. Begrudgingly, the mother agrees. They make up ways of killing an unnamed woman.

    When the game is over, the boy asks what would happen if they killed the woman “for real,” if it would make his father love them ag...
    Composer: John Harris
    Librettist: Marjorie Chan

    Sleep, Sleep
    Sleep, Sleep
    Tea at Three
    Late at night, Allie receives a visitation from her deceased best friend, Karen.
    Composer: Katya Pine
    Librettist: Sheldon Rosen

    Tea at Three
    Tea at Three
    The Cellar Door
    Content warning: child sexual abuse, incest, death, murder

    Judith and Daniel, long estranged siblings, are brought together by the passing of their father. Time has passed, but it seems like Judith hasn't changed at all. Daniel kills his sister when she wants to resume their childhood sexual relationship.
    Composer: Melissa Hui
    Librettist: Jovanni Sy

    The Cellar Door
    The Cellar Door
    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
    The Perfect Match
    Two sock puppets long for something more than their dreary lives. They bump into each other on the street, and it doesn’t take long for them to recognize they’re each other’s perfect match!
    Composer: Anthony Young
    Librettist: Krista Dalby

    The Perfect Match
    The Shadow
    Barcelona, 1900. Against the backdrop of Gaudi’s surrealist Parc Guell, Raoul, a humble postman, falls for the beautiful Allegra, whose father is a wealthy aristocrat on his mail route. To impress Allegra, Raoul disguises himself as Hernando, a “wealthy suitor,” and borrows money from the local mafia to impress the girl. Raoul goes deeply into d...
    Composer: Omar Daniel
    Librettist: Alex Poch-Goldin

    The Shadow
    The Shadow
    The Theory of Everything
    A man at a restaurant thinks he recognizes a woman seated alone at the next table. Could she be a famous author he just read? As the pieces of this miscalculation come together for the woman, we find that she is surprised to be noticed, and taken aback that she’s assumed to be a string theory expert. The scene flips an expected script of expecta...
    Composer: Elisabeth Mehl Greene
    Librettist: Sheldon Rosen

    The Theory of Everything
    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
    Two Sisters
    Content warning: death, murder, drowning

    Two sisters are outside by the river talking. One sister describes the boy she hopes to be with, and the other sister admits that she is pregnant with his baby. Jealousy is a deadly emotion.
    Composer: Benton Roark
    Librettist: Lila Palmer

    Two Sisters
    Two Sisters
    Unfamiliar
    Content warning: black-out drinking

    A night out celebrating midterms takes a turn when Jamie doesn't return.
    Composer: Darren Fung
    Librettist: Dave Deveau

    Unfamiliar
    Unfamiliar
    The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
    Based on "The Handless Maiden," a mythic story found in cultures around the world, and a continuation of the events in Me and You (Madonna of the Wilderness).

    After seven years of wandering, the girl (now known as Madonna) has regained her hands through loving self-sacrifice. She’s returned to the cabin of her childhood, where her journey beg...
    Composer: Benton Roark
    Librettist: Katherine Koller

    The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
    The Handless Maiden: Scene 8 (Wash the Loss)
    Where is Ava
    Chloe and Eddie are in the throes of love when they’re interrupted by Matt, Chloe’s athlete ex-husband. Matt asks where their daughter Ava is, and criticizes Chloe for abandoning Ava for some man.
    Composer: Ivan Barbotin
    Librettist: Katherine Koller

    Where is Ava
    Where is Ava
    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
    R.U.R. A Torrent of Light
    The fictional tech company R.U.R., founded by couple Helena and Dom, dominates the A.I. software market and powers the now-ubiquitous androids that serve their human owners.

    As Dom becomes more focused on growing R.U.R’s profits, Helena’s creative research leads to an unexpected technological breakthrough that pits the couples’ visions square...
    Composer: Nicole Lizée
    Librettist: Nicolas Billon

    R.U.R. A Torrent of Light
    Dragon’s Tale
    Content warning: death, suicide

    Dragon’s Tale is the story of a young Chinese-Canadian woman (Xiao Lian) and her ailing father, both living in Toronto. Xiao Lian wakes up in the ancient past and witnesses the last days of one of China’s greatest poets, Qu Yuan. In doing so, she begins to understand her father and herself as she returns to a c...
    Composer: Ka Nin Chan
    Librettist: Mark Brownell

    Dragon’s Tale
    Airline Icarus

    A worker ruminates on the terrifying power of flight as he loads bags.   Three passengers board and discover they’re sitting beside each other.  During the pre-departure safety demonstration, a flight attendant longs for an escape from her mundane life and job.  The three passengers think of their own isolation and lo...

    Composer: Brian Current
    Librettist: Anton Piatigorsky

    Airline Icarus
    Pomegranate
    On a fateful school trip to the ruins of Pompeii, the fantasies of smitten teenagers Suzie and Cass are ignited. They are transported from 1977 to 79 AD, where they discover romantic freedom in the looming shadow of Mount Vesuvius – but not for long. The timeline shifts to 1981 and the Fly by Night, a Toronto lesbian bar, in the aftermath of the...
    Composer: Kye Marshall
    Librettist: Amanda Hale

    Pomegranate
    The Defining Moment
    Content warning: infidelity

    An ambitious politician gleefully shares with his mistress the news that his party may soon be back in power.  The mistress shares her own news: she is pregnant.
    Composer: Jana Skarecky
    Librettist: Norman Yeung

    The Defining Moment
    The Defining Moment
    YES
    Mark stands with his friends Maryanne and Bob, ready to play a game of baseball. They see their other friend, Kenny, and Carley, Mark's ex-girlfriend, in the distance. Kenny proposes to Carley, and runs to the group to announce triumphantly "She said yes!" Inspired by Maryanne's encouragement, Mark calls his estranged son, who lives far away wit...
    Composer: Jana Skarecky
    Librettist: Sheldon Rosen

    YES
    YES
    COR
    Excerpts
    1984: Piece of Paper – 1984: Piece of Paper

    Winston Smith helps Julia after she trips. This seemingly mundane interaction upends Smith’s world when he reads the note Julia slips into his hand.

    a little rain must fall – a little rain must fall

    A playful duet between romantic partners that offers a comedic take on a sinister secret.

    (What Rhymes With) Azimuth – (What Rhymes with) Azimuth

    A man and woman meet for the first time on a summer's evening.

    Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind – Scene 3

    Two male lovers come to terms with the fact that one of them is dying of AIDS.

    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.

    Bandits in the Valley – Group 1, Scene 1: The Buttock Birthmark (duet)

    Jeremiah, who is in love with Lily, reveals that he is the illegitimate son of former mill owner, Skinner. He enlists Freddy's help with a scheme.

    Bandits in the Valley – Group 1, Scene 2: The Chase

    Brigitta is in love with Jeremiah. Jeremiah, Freddy, and Brigitta retrieve Jeremiah's birth certificate from the Taylor house where Brigitta found it. Jeremiah gives Freddy a note for Lily - he and Lily are leaving town when Jeremiah gets his fortune.

    Bandits in the Valley – Group 2, Scene 2: The Dressing Room

    George has a proposal for Lily. Henri has a confession. The Great Recorder Smackdown happens, and Lily is caught in the crossfire. Lily sends them all away without answering.

    Bandits in the Valley – Finale

    The Vagabond Theatrical Troupe presents!  Jeremiah gives George an ultimatum but has to prove himself first in more ways than one, and all is wrapped up in the finest paper package.

    Dance til the sun sets – Dance Til The Sun Sets

    An entire relationship in microcosm, from first meeting to last sunset together. This piece uses a couple’s dancing together as a metaphor for their time passing.

    Eva – Eva

    A son gets caught sleeping with his father's girlfriend, Eva. A three-way fight erupts, the son professing his love for Eva and vice versa, while the father warns they’ll betray each other soon enough. They leave, and the father grieves the loss of them both.

    TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 1, Scene 4: “Stay, Still, Forever”

    A cleric prepares for confessional. Someone enters the booth. The cleric realizes it’s a man with whom he shared a mutual attraction. The man has recently finished gay conversion therapy and wishes to resume some kind of a relationship.

    Gotcha! – Gotcha!

    First meeting of an adult son and his birth mother.

    Guitar – Guitar

    A couple fights as a woman leaves to pursue her dream.

    Hook Up – Section 1, Scene 1: “Opening Montage Overture”

    Cindy, Mindy, and Tyler revel in the newfound freedom of university life. Cindy delights in being single, Mindy says goodbye to her parents, and is excited for more privacy and time with Tyler... who is looking forward to playing more Fortnite.

    Hook Up – Section 1, Scene 3: “Meet Up: The First Night”

    Cindy is annoyed she’s not roommates with Mindy; the audience knows Mindy has secretly asked for her own room. Tyler wants to go a party, but Mindy convinces him to “Netflix and chill.”

    Hook Up – Section 2, Scene 1: “Honeymoon Suite: Trouble in “Pornadise””

    Tyler is bored. Mindy worries they’re becoming their parents, and wants to spice things up. Tyler suggests watching porn together, which only makes things more awkward.

    Hook Up – Section 2, Scene 4: “Texting Blitz”

    A barrage of texts combined with singing let us know what Cindy, Mindy, and Tyler have been up to. Relationships grow more and more intense, culminating in Cindy telling Mindy she’s seen Tyler studying with a second year girl named Heather.

    Hook Up – Section 2, Scene 5: “Time Out” (duet)

    Mindy confronts Tyler about his “study partner” and accuses him of lying to her, which Tyler denies. Mindy makes a sudden decision: she wants a time-out, and thinks they should see other people. Tyler leaves, confused and devastated.

    Hook Up – Section 3, Scene 3: “The Party”

    Cindy and Mindy eye potential hook-ups for Mindy. Tyler arrives with Heather. Mindy’s livid, and Cindy reminds her not to do anything crazy. Mindy’s response is to commit to the idea of hooking up with someone at the party.

    Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 2: “Text Alerts”

    Mindy plugs in her phone, which died at the party. It comes alive with a constant stream of texts from Tyler and Cindy from the night before, who were both worried about her. Mindy rushes to the bathroom to throw up.

    Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 3: “Putting the Pieces Together”

    Someone has posted pictures of Mindy at the party with different men. Mindy, Cindy, and Tyler argue about who is to blame. Cindy and Tyler depart angry, leaving Mindy sitting alone on her bed.

    Hook Up – Section 5, Scene 1: “Mindy’s Spiral”

    Mindy tries to understand if she was raped at the party. She can't make herself contact anyone, but seeks information online; Cindy slips a morning after pill under the door.

    Hotel Lobby – Hotel Lobby

    Ex-lovers encounter each other in hotel lobby with their new partners and insult each other.

    In This World, George is Heartbroken – In This World, George is Heartbroken

    George and his wife Martha have three very different versions of a difficult conversation over breakfast.

    Lost and Found – Lost and Found

    Two travellers trying to communicate in English- which neither of them speaks well- find they are attracted to each other.

    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 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 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 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 2, Scene 1

    Jason and Dahlia are getting married. The citizens gossip.

    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 8: Killing (aria)

    Just before the wedding, Jason discovers Dahlia and the President murdered.

    Man in Avalanche – Man in Avalanche

    On a solitary walk a Man gets buried by an avalanche; a Woman thinks his absence means he is cheating on her.

    TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – second movement

    A couple is trying to come to terms with the loss of their daughter. They grieve, and fight with one another.

    TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – third movement

    The couple continues to mourn.

    TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy A – final movement

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

    TAP:EX Metallurgy – Metallurgy B

    In a series of micro-vignettes, we witness a love affair from meeting to first date, falling in love to falling out of love, and into old age.

    Mother Everest – “Namaste” (aria)

    Jackie realizes that her sherpa has died.

    Mother Everest – Mother Everest

    Westerner Jackie and sherpa Pasang summit Everest without using oxygen cannisters. Soon their victory turns into a culture clash as they argue about their affair and the mountain, and slowly die of hypoxia.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 1

    Jaan, who is dying, asks her sister Noor to secretely take her place on her wedding day. Noor reluctantly agrees.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 2

    The wedding ceremony. Noor hesitates, then marries Rafique.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 4: The Wedding Night

    Noor tells the lie Jaan asked of her to Rafique. Rafique sends her away and tries to figure out what he should do.

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