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    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
    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
    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
    Jacqueline
    Content warning: terminal illness

    This is not a biographical opera, it is an exploration of an emotional journey. At age 5, Jacqueline has instant chemistry and sparks fly when she meets her cello. Their relationship grows stronger and closer, and Jacqueline matures into a charismatic and likeable teen, powerful on major stages. Soon she is a...
    Composer: Luna Pearl Woolf
    Librettist: Royce Vavrek

    Jacqueline
    Little Miss All Canadian
    Content warning: murder

    Two women, Eunice Rose and Samantha, sit in the audience during the semifinals of a junior “Miss All-Canadian” Pageant. Eunice’s daughter is on stage doing a dance routine Eunice choreographed herself. She holds a diet coke and eats chocolate while eying her daughter and criticizing her performance. Samantha, meanwhile...
    Composer: Lembit Beecher
    Librettist: Liza Balkan

    Little Miss All Canadian
    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
    My Eyes are Bright and Sparkly
    “Hate your stupid earrings, hate your ugly shoes.” Stephanie is getting ready to go out on a date, but she begins to unravel when she checks herself in the mirror. The voices she hears in her head are variations of her own critical voice. She sees herself the way she imagines her date will see her. Nothing is right – everything is wrong. It is a...
    Composer: Rene Orth
    Librettist: Colleen Murphy

    My Eyes are Bright and Sparkly
    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
    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.
    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
    Restoration
    A woman is being examined by various doctors.  Weakly, she sings of what she used to be.  One doctor smears lipstick on her.  She doesn’t want to go.
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Michael Pollard

    Restoration
    Restoration
    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
    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
    Shanawdithit
    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
    Still the Night
    Content warning: antisemitism, genocide, Holocaust, infanticide, murder, Nazis, sexual violence, sex work, violence, war

    Still the Night tells the fictional story of two Jewish Polish cousins, both named Bryna, who have escaped fr...
    Composer: John Alcorn
    Librettist: Theresa Tova

    Still the Night
    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 Laurels
    Content warning: death, murder, violence

    This opera explores the interior realm of a woman’s response to a crisis. The Laurels plays with audience assumptions and expectations; it is well into the piece before we realize the stranger is not the person he appears to be. While it is important that Laurel’s understanding of the Stranger is consi...
    Composer: Jeffrey Ryan
    Librettist: Michael Lewis MacLennan

    The Laurels
    The Laurels
    The Perfect Screw
    Nominated for a 2009 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical/Opera, this 40-minute tragi-comedy about creative integrity, autonomy, and the right fit is an allegorical tale that dismantles the ironies of capitalism; a parody of cross-border relations; a romance.

    Due to the all-powerful Ford selecting the American Phillips screw for...
    Composer: Abigail Richardson
    Librettist: Alexis Diamond

    The Perfect Screw
    The Perfect Screw
    The Rape of Artemisia
    Content warning: sexual violence

    Based on the testimony of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi on her rapist and instructor Agostino Tassi, we are given a snapshot of violation, confusion, and the oppression of women.
    Composer: Ivan Barbotin
    Librettist: Hannah Moscovitch

    The Rape of Artemisia
    The Rape of Artemisia
    The Two Graces
    The night before her birthday, an aging Queen Elizabeth I catches an intruder in her boudoir. It turns out to be none other than her arch-nemesis Grace O’Malley, Irish pirate and chieftain, come to reclaim her seized ship and her trampled rights. A comedic opera about power and politics, destiny and desire, and how hard it is to be a woman at th...
    Composer: Sean Ferguson
    Librettist: Alexis Diamond

    The Two Graces
    The Two Graces
    What is She?
    Content warning: misgendering, intersex discrimination

    A meditation on the discrimination intersex athletes face from their peers. A woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the organization and the other athletes. She’s disqualified and shamed.
    Composer: John Harris
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    What is She?
    What is She?
    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
    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
    One Lump or Two?
    Content warning: mention of murder, violence, poison

    Four Victorian women sit down for a most unusual tea time. The women have two things in common: their dislike of the other women and of their husbands. Each woman refuses to drink tea for one reason or another while brainstorming ideas such as poison, prison, bee-stings or drowning. But who...
    Composer: Glenn James
    Librettist: Sandy Pool

    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
    Molly’s Veil
    Content warning: illness, death

    Charlotte works to prepare a Thanksgiving meal while her sister Margaret, who is ill, rests. When Margaret drops some china, the sisters are forced to confront the fact that Margaret's illness is likely terminal, and they will soon be separated. They sing a heartfelt duet, vowing to say hello to a new closeness...
    Composer: Jana Skarecky
    Librettist: Sharon Bajer

    Molly’s Veil
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    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.

    TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 1, Scene 2: “With His Eyes (Male Gaze)”

    An interrogator turns his lurid eyes on an imprisoned female activist. Purposefully misunderstanding her movements as seduction, he convinces himself of something horrid.

    TAP:EX Forbidden – Act 2, Scene 4: “Dubai know how to Party”

    A distraught woman is trying to report her sexual assault to a policeman. She admits she’s had some alcohol. Instead of pursuing justice, the policeman arrests her for illegal possession of alcohol. The Child witnesses all of it.

    Hook Up – Section 1, Scene 2: “The Rules of the Dorm”

    Dorm RAs lay down the laws of drinking and sex, which are incredibly different for the boys vs. the girls.

    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 2: “Feminism 101: Gender, Justice & Change”

    A kick-ass professor guides the girls through a "Feminism 101" presentation, while Cindy and Mindy’s relationship reaches a boiling point. Cindy judges Mindy’s homebody approach to university life; Mindy judges Cindy’s seemingly only interest in “hooking up” at parties.

    Hook Up – Section 2, Scene 2A: “In the Hall”

    Cindy and Mindy are kicked out of class for causing a disturbance. Mindy comes clean about having asked for a private room behind Cindy's back. The two reconcile and agree to hang out (without Tyler) that night.

    Hook Up – Section 2, Scene 3: “Girl’s Night” (duet)

    Cindy tells Mindy about her empowering sexual explorations of late, and questions if Mindy is really ok with spending her life with just one person.

    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 1: “The Rules of the Hookup” (duet)

    Cindy and Mindy get into constumes and pre-drink for the Halloween Kegger. Cindy teases Mindy for her lack of sexual adventurousness and gives her “the rules of the hook up” just in case...

    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 3, Scene 3C: “The Buddy System”

    Cindy tries to get Mindy to come away with her, but Mindy insists she's fine and goes upstairs with Cowboy Dude.

    Hook Up – Section 4, Scene 1: “The Morning After: Walk of Shame”

    Hungover, walking home the morning after the party, Mindy remembers disturbing images from the night before - she isn't sure exactly what happened.

    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.

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

    Heather and Mindy share a moment of intimacy as they discuss their experiences of sexual violence.

    Jacqueline – “Disease” – voice and cello

    In her prime. At a post-gala cocktail party, Jackie ironically confesses she has a terrible disease: glissando-itis.

    Jacqueline – “Samson” – voice and cello

    Comparing herself to Samson, Jackie and her husband have a tangled night of love one rainy night.

    Jacqueline – “Dizzy” – voice and cello

    In her prime, Jackie admits she finds the pace of touring life dizzying. The sycophants at parties are starting to get to her.

    Jacqueline – “Telephone” – voice and cello

    On a phone call with her mother, Jackie is admonished. She begs her mother to visit. She’s alone with fragments of memory.

    Jacqueline – “Run” – voice and cello

    Delirious, Jackie envisions running to the ocean again through the fields, this time with her sister, Hilary. She asks that Hilary not tell Daniel about the disease.

    Jacqueline – “Bathing in the Sea in October” – voice and cello

    Jackie tells us how she can blur the lines between fantasy and reality at will. She can escape the confines of her chair by dreaming of bathing in the sea. She wonders where Daniel is, and who he’s seeing.

    Jacqueline – “Psychoanalysis” – voice and cello

    Jacqueline experiences symptoms, but her physical illness is undiagnosed, and she is instead told it is hysterical or psychosomatic.

    Jacqueline – “Dirty Joke” – voice and cello

    Jacqueline enjoys telling a joke about some monks' sexual arousal.

    Jacqueline – “Cancellation” – voice and cello

    Angry and frustrated at her physical inability to play, Jacqueline cancels her remaining performances.

    Little Miss All Canadian – Little Miss All Canadian

    Two mothers in the audience for a beauty pageant: while Eunice's daughter performs, Samantha reads an article about a murdered 11-year-old girl.

    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.

    My Eyes are Bright and Sparkly – My Eyes are Bright and Sparkly

    Stephanie is getting ready to go out on a date, but she begins to unravel when she checks herself in the mirror. The voices she hears in her head are variations of her own critical voice. She sees herself the way she imagines her date will see her.

    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 3

    Jaan meets group of tribal women in the desert who convince her to stay with them while she dies. Noor takes Jaan's place in the circle.

    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.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 5

    Jaan remains alive. The tribal women suggest she should write to Noor to know what has happen and ease her mind.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 6

    In bed, Rafique and Noor separately wonder how to get out of their situation.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 7: Desert (aria)

    In a letter, Jaan asks if Noor still loves her.

    Noor Over Afghan – Scene 8

    Receiving Jaan's letter, Noor forgives her sister. Noor and Rafique decide they will try to remain friends.

    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."

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

    Though others are at first suspicious, Russian Konstantin convinces Ukranian teenagers Nataliya and Oksana to come work for him at a hotel in Romania for the summer.

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

    In a forest in Romania, Oksana discovers she has been tricked and is now in danger. Konstantin and his partners rape Oksana & Natalyia.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 3

    Sofiya goes to Asa to have her cards read for news of Oksana. The police will not treat Oksana's disappearance as crime, as she went with the men willingly. The cards say Oksana has been robbed of her soul.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 4

    In Greece at a bar, three women are held captive: Konstantin sends Lyubia with a businessman, Natalyia with the Immigration officer who cuts her, and Oksana is bought by Konstantin at auction. Konstantin then offers to the crowd a gang rape just as the police arrive to raid the bar. Instead, he escapes with Oksana and Natalyia.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 1, Scene 6

    On the Albanian coast the women captives wait for the boat to Italy. Oksana is still defiant, trying to figure out an escape for herself and others. The boat and Konstantin arrive, and Oksana fails to convince him to free her and Natalyia.

    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. – Act 2, Scene 2

    Asa and Sofiya are checking the cards. Pavlo arrives with the news that a priest called from Italy to say that Oksana is alive, but there is no sign of Natalyia.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 2, Scene 3

    Screaming, Oksana awakens from a nightmare; Father Alexander comes to her and she admits she may have let Natalyia drown to save herself. The Father counsels forgiveness of herself and others, but Oksana is not convinced that is possible.

    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 6

    Refugees are trying on clothes, when Dima and Konstantin enter looking for Oksana. Konstantin offers Father Alexander money for Oksana and Clara calls the police; Konstantin and Dima leave before the police arrive.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 1

    Pavlo reads Oksana's letter to her parents telling them she'll be home on November 8, her birthday. They are thrilled, and get carried away planning a party for her.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 2

    On the eve of Oksana's departure, Father Alexander has to go to pick up another woman in distress. He leaves his knife with Oksana because she is afraid Konstantin will show up. Lyuba and Oksana say their goodbyes.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 4

    Konstantin breaks into Oksana's room and tries to convince her to leave with him. When this fails, he tries to rape her again but she stabs him. He gets the knife and stabs her before he dies. Father Alexander returns and Oksana dies of her wound, dreaming of home.

    The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. – Act 3, Scene 5

    Sofiya and Yuri consult Asa when Oksana has not arrived as her lettered promised. They are interrupted by Pavlo with news that the priest from Italy is on the phone, and wants to talk to Oksana's parents.

    Opposites Attract – Scene 2

    At a bar, Erica laments the men she chooses. Jackie looks for a rich man- and a rich man walks into the bar.

    Opposites Attract – Scene 3

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

    Opposites Attract – Scene 7

    Erica and Keith have an awkward meeting in a cafe.

    Opposites Attract – Scene 8

    Two couples on a resort patio watch and comment on each other.

    Restoration – Restoration

    A woman cryptically remembers her past as she is briefly examined by three different people.

    Shanawdithit – “Out of this world” (aria)

    Shanawdithit, dying, speaks to her ancestors. She is ready to leave this world.

    Shanawdithit – “What? A man?” (aria)

    Shanawdithit reprimands Cormack for his saviour complex.

    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.

    Shanawdithit – Scene 2

    Cormack’s study in St. John’s, now Shanawdithit’s room. “Nancy April” reveals she can speak English quite well, and tells Cormack her real name: Shanawdithit. Cormack asks her where the rest of her people are, where her home is. Shanawdithit says simply: they are no more. Shanawdithit reflects on the loss of her people and the taking of her a...

    Shanawdithit – Scene 4

    The taking of Demasduit weighs heavy on Shanawdithit’s heart. Cormack, unsure of what to do, tries to comfort her, saying Demasduit was treated well. Shawnadithit asks if white people actually care about her people, her story, because Cormack’s words are betrayed by the actions of his fellows, and indeed, his own. Cormack insists he will ensu...

    Shanawdithit – Scene 5: Salmon, Seal, Caribou

    Shanawdithit describes the last days of her family as they were pushed from their land and then hunted. She asks Cormack not to speak of their death, but of their life. Cormack is ecstatic and gets lost in the memories Shanawdithit paints. She breaks his reverie with the cold fact that the life she speaks of will never happen again. She colla...

    Shanawdithit – Scene 7

    Her health fading, Shanawdithit wonders if she’ll be welcomed into the spirit world after so much time with the colonists. Cormack tells her he must leave, and Shanawdithit gives him a sketch of his house to carry with him. He leaves the room to pack. Shanawdithit hears the spirits of her people calling her name. It is time. One spirit in par...

    She Sees Her Lover – “Oh, it’s beautiful” (aria)

    Excited by the possibility of a night with a new lover, Sumana anxiously expresses her anticipation.

    She Sees Her Lover – “So many ways” (aria)

    Agnieska questions why all of her previous relationships have failed.

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