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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
Flotsam & Jetsam
As a teenager in the 1920s, my grandmother Gladys played piano for silent films in the remote New Zealand town of Takaka. She still recalls a film which was shot nearby at Pohara beach. Although Glad has never seen the film, I found out later that it was the underwater spectacular Venus of the South Seas, starring Australian diver Annette...
Composer: Juliet Palmer
Librettist: Juliet Palmer

Flotsam & Jetsam
Flotsam & Jetsam
The Telegram
Content warning: death, war

During a war, two women talk over the phone. They panic as they watch the town elder march down the street, telegram in hand. His message always carries horrible news: the death of someone’s son. Both of the women almost unwillingly hope some other family gets the telegram. Anyone but them.

In truth, the telegra...
Composer: Gareth Williams
Librettist: Bernard MacLaverty

The Telegram
The Telegram
The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
Content warning: mental illness, alcohol use, incarceration due to mental illness

Is it the clothes that make a man, or is it something other than?

Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, The Overcoat centres on Akakiy Akakiyevich, a diligent man no one likes, who works the numbers best he can. But he can barely pay th...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: Morris Panych

The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring
Shanawdithit
Content warning: colonial violence, colonialsm, death, illness

1828, Notre Dame Bay, on the northeast shore of Newfoundland. William Cormack, an explorer and anthropologist, has recently created the Beothuk Institute: an organization designed to prevent the extinction of the original inhabitants of the island. After learning that a Beothuk wo...
Composer: Dean Burry
Librettist: Yvette Nolan

Shanawdithit
The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.
Content warning: captivity, sex trafficking, sex work, sexual violence, violence, death

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. is a fictional dramatic opera built on extensive factual research. Set in Ukraine in 1997, it is the story of Oksana, a young woman lured into the world of sex trafficking by a Russian recruiter, Konstantin, who ...
Composer: Aaron Gervais
Librettist: Colleen Murphy

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G.
Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Content warning: violence, death, murder

Based on a 1960s film by the same name, this story follows two doctors, James and Sam, when an argument turns deadly.
Composer: Chris Thornborrow
Librettist: Morris Panych

Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Iron Road
Content warning: racism, colonialism, violence, death

In 1880’s China, Lai Gwan, a young impoverished woman, stands on the brink of momentous change. Her dying mother urges her to respect and honour the memory of her father, Manli, whose disappearance to the New World haunts them both.

Armed with the hope that she will find her father aliv...
Composer: Ka Nin Chan
Librettist: Mark Brownell

Iron Road
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
Elijah’s Kite
In a schoolyard full of kids, nine-year-old Elijah still feels alone. He’s had a lot of trouble from Big Billy Brett, who takes every opportunity to bully and tease Elijah and his friends. For comfort, Elijah brings his favourite kite to school. One day, they meet a strong new girl called Miriam. Miriam isn’t afraid of Billy and stands up to him...
Composer: James Rolfe
Librettist: Camyar Chai

Elijah’s Kite
Elijah’s Kite
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
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Excerpts
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.

Hotel Lobby – Hotel Lobby

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

The Telegram – The Telegram

Two women watch and worry as the church elder walks through town with a telegram carrying news of a soldier son's death.

Bandits in the Valley – Opening Scene – voices, percussion, and accordion

George celebrates the 25th anniversary of his paper mill with an important announcement. Lily is introduced. Freddy gets some bad news.

The Shadow – Scene 9

Raoul (as Hernando) confronts Allegra about the missing ring. She tells him it's being polished.

The Shadow – Scene 8

The Shadow arrives to haunt Raoul.

The Shadow – Scene 7

Raoul still hasn't paid off his debt. Allegra arrives and tells him she has lost the ring, not knowing that he is also Hernando.

The Perfect Screw – Act 1, Scene 2: “Fates, I curse you” (aria)

Robertson in his shop, Amalia (present day) in her bathroom with her antique vanity, Phillips in his workshop, also injured by a screw driver slip.

Shelter – Scene 6: Trinity (aria)

Hope introduces the pilot to her family. He leaves, and Hope argues with her parents about going with him.

Shanawdithit – Scene 1

Cormack meets Shanawdithit for the first time. She’s been working as a servant for Peyton for five years under the colonial name of Nancy April. Cormack is awed; he believes this woman is the last of the Beothuk. Peyton gives her to him, saying she’s useless.

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.

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.

Sanctuary Song – Scene 3: Fire

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

Opposites Attract – Scene 3

Jackie demands Alex say something, but Alex doesn't. Erica paces.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 3

Father Alexander discovers the distress call was a set by Konstantin, but Dima decides he can't beat up a priest and lets Father Alexander go back to Brindisi where Konstantin is.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 5

Father Alexander and Oksana realize they share an attraction for each other, but Oksana is determined to go home and tell her parents what has happened. Konstantin phones the refuge to get Oksana back.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 1

Brindisi refugee shelter: Father Alexander and social worker Clara work with the refugees. An injured Oksana arrives and asks for help; Lyubia, who escaped when the boat docked, is among the refugees and recognizes Oksana.

The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Prologue

Sofiya and Yuri take their infant daughter Oksana to have her horoscope read by Asa, who predicts that "freedom invades her future."

Man With the X-Ray Eyes – Man with the X-Ray Eyes

James, an eye doctor wanting to keep his new x-ray vision, argues with his colleague Sam and accidentally kills him, as his assistant Diane watches.

Elijah’s Kite – Act 1, Scene 3: “Five little kids came out one day”

Elijah and Keisha tell Miriam about Billy the bully. Billy bullies Elijah, then Miriam stands up to Billy.

Iron Road – Act 2, Scene 4: The Last Spike

Whites celebrate the finishing of the railway and officially dismiss the Chinese, who blame Manli for abandoning them.

Iron Road – Act 2, Scene 2: The Cave

In the explosion rubble, Lai Gwan and Nichol declare their love depsite Ama's warnings. Nichol dies as the workers rescue Lai Gwan and Manli, who declares his renewed love for his daughter.

Iron Road – Act 1, Scene 1: The Ship

Aboard a ship taking Chinese workers to British Columbia - they are hungry & thirsty. Ah Lum starts a fight with Lai Gwan, who is disguised as a young man, but they stop as the coast comes into view.

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