A 12 minute long opera, it is set during the 1996 Olympics and Paralympics held in Atlanta.  A Paralympic athlete with a disability, and a person of color made homeless by the construction of Olympic sites, meet by chance in Piedmont Park in front of a strange statue.  “Before the Last Meter” explores and humanizes the themes of ambition, home, ...

Avertissment de contenu: mort, emprisonnement, interrogatoire, suicide, torture

A translator at a secret prison for suspected terrorists witnesses extreme torture and death of detainees. She leaks the information to news broadcasters, but the government covers it up as a hoax. Her supervisor begs her to say nothing more about the things she has seen -...

Nominé pour le prix Dora Mavor Moore 2009 de la meilleure nouvelle comédie musicale ou opéra, cette tragi-comédie de 40 minutes sur l’intégrité créative, l’autonomie et l’ajustement est un conte allégorique qui démonte les ironies du capitalisme ; une parodie des relations transfrontalières ; un récit romantique.

Due to the all-powerful Ford selecting the American Phillips screw for...

Avertissement de contenu : maladie, mort, colonisation

Facing South is inspired by the life story of American Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, and his contested discovery of the North Pole in 1909. The opera takes place in the inner landscape of Peary’s mind during the last hours of his life in February 1920, as he lies dying of pernic...