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Opéras
Avertissement de contenu: violence coloniale, colonialisme, mort, maladie
1828, baie Notre Dame, sur la côte nord-est de Terre-Neuve. William Cormack, explorateur et anthropologue, a récemment créé le Beothuk Institute : un organisme destiné à prévenir l'extinction des premiers habitants de l'île. Après avoir appris qu'un Béothuk...
1828, baie Notre Dame, sur la côte nord-est de Terre-Neuve. William Cormack, explorateur et anthropologue, a récemment créé le Beothuk Institute : un organisme destiné à prévenir l'extinction des premiers habitants de l'île. Après avoir appris qu'un Béothuk...
Musique : Dean Burry
Livret : Yvette Nolan
A collection of dramatic musical settings of poetry by twelve different Canadian writers. The poems range from serious to humorous, and touch on subjects including the beauty of nature, to ecology and urban animals, to language and poetry itself.
Musique : Ana Sokolović
"Bentley’s libretto is based on Frank O’Connor’s translation of the celebrated 1780 Gaelic poem by Brian Merriman (1749-1805), a work surprisingly contemporary in its frank discussion of women’s sexual needs and how men fail to meet them. In Bentley’s adaptation Merriman himself becomes the opera’s central figure who falls asleep on a midsummer...
Musique : Ana Sokolović
Livret : Paul Bentley
Svadba explores a "wedding theme, especially the night before the ceremony, when we are privy to private and ancient rituals between the bride and her girlfriends. The text is taken from original Serbian poetry but given a new context for our contemporary culture... A wedding is an important turning point in every woman’s life, usually steeped i...
Musique : Ana Sokolović
Livret : Ana Sokolović
Glimmer attempts to address the urgent matters and seemingly irreconcilable coexisting realities at the core of queer existence through multiple frames and lenses. Taking full advantage of an all-queer cast of performers, with whom the piece was developed organically through a series of discussions and workshops, this work intertwines the autobi...
Musique : Thierry Tidrow
Livret : Thierry Tidrow
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...
Musique : Brian Current
Livret : Anton Piatigorski
Avertissement de contenu : erreur de genre, mentions d'agression sexuelle et de violence implicite
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...
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...
Musique : Colin McMahon
Livret : Charlie Petch
Une jeune musicienne au talent extraordinaire aspire à la perfection dans son art. Son chemin vers la grandeur ? Un mur magnifique.
Bursting with the compulsion to reach the top, she invokes Canadian icon, classical pianist Glenn Gould to guide her towards dizzying heights – but the path isn’t easy. Each brick represents her art, her rigour, and her...
Bursting with the compulsion to reach the top, she invokes Canadian icon, classical pianist Glenn Gould to guide her towards dizzying heights – but the path isn’t easy. Each brick represents her art, her rigour, and her...
Musique : Brian Current
Livret : Lisa Balkan
La société technologique fictive RUR, fondée par le couple Helena et Dom, domine le marché des logiciels d'IA et alimente les androïdes désormais omniprésents au service de leurs propriétaires humains.
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...
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...
Musique : Nicole Lizée
Livret : Nicolas Billon
Avertissement de contenu : harcèlement sexuel, violence, incendie
Une terre du nord, la fin de l'hiver. Une avant-aube froide et sombre au bord d’une montagne ; à travers la vallée rugit une puissante cascade. Dans cette vallée, il y a deux fermes, une pauvre - appartenant à Runa, une femme célibataire - et une riche, appartenant à Olaf, qui souhaite que Runa soit son épouse.
Olaf proposes to Runa...
Une terre du nord, la fin de l'hiver. Une avant-aube froide et sombre au bord d’une montagne ; à travers la vallée rugit une puissante cascade. Dans cette vallée, il y a deux fermes, une pauvre - appartenant à Runa, une femme célibataire - et une riche, appartenant à Olaf, qui souhaite que Runa soit son épouse.
Olaf proposes to Runa...
Musique : Norbert Palej
Livret : Maja Ardal
Avertissement de contenu : maladie mentale, consommation d'alcool, incarcération pour cause de maladie mentale
Est-ce les vêtements qui font un homme, ou est-ce autre chose ?
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...
Est-ce les vêtements qui font un homme, ou est-ce autre chose ?
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...
Musique : James Rolfe
Livret : Morris Panych
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...
Musique : Benton Roark
Librettistes : Debi Wong, Benton Roark
Avertissement de contenu : langage explicite, violence sexuelle, contenu sexuel, alcool, consommation d'alcool pendant un black-out
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...
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...
Musique : Chris Thornborrow
Livret : Julie Tepperman
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...
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...
Musique : Benton Roark
Livret : Julie Tepperman
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...
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...
Musique : Linda Catlin Smith
Livret : Don Hannah
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...
Musique : James Rolfe
Livret : Camyar Chai
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Extraits
Akakiy gets caught in rush hour and arrives late to find the head the department telling a sad story about encountering a homeless vagrant. Annoyed at being interrupted, the head of the department grills Akakiy on his little notebook of numbers. Akakiy explains he was using it to find ways to save money, which gives the head an idea. He’ll cu...
Eurydice se porte volontaire pour tester une nouvelle technologie d'IA qui promet de capturer vos souvenirs les plus marquants et d'organiser votre au-delà virtuel parfait. Les techniciens du laboratoire distribuent des masques pour les yeux au public.
Calliope et les Muses entraînent Eurydice C dans son inconscient, au souvenir de son premier amour.
Eurydice C voit son Elysée avec Orphée dans le jardin – elle n'est pas sûre de le vouloir là, mais cela s'efface avant qu'elle puisse se décider. Le CEO la ramène à la réalité et clôt la présentation.
George célèbre le 25e anniversaire de son usine de papier au moyen d'une annonce importante. On rencontre Lily. Freddy reçoit de mauvaises nouvelles.
La Vagabond Theatrical Troupe se produit ! Jeremiah lance un ultimatum à George, mais il doit d'abord faire ses preuves de plusieurs façons, et tout est emballé dans le plus beau papier.
C'est l'heure du déjeuner dans la cour de l'école.
Lors de la première chaude journée de printemps dans les montagnes, Olaf, un riche fermier, propose à Runa, une pauvre fermière, de découvrir qu'elle est amoureuse du bandit Davith. Irrité par cela, Olaf brûle la ferme de Runa et Runa s'échappe dans la montagne à la recherche de Davith.
Elijah et Keisha parlent à Miriam de Billy l'intimidateur. Billy intimide Elijah, puis Miriam tient tête à Billy.
After days of near catatonia in his cold apartment, the landlady asks Petrovich to repair Akakiy’s old coat, to no avail. Even his coworkers arrive to check in, but by then, Akakiy is unreachable. Akakiy is committed to a mental hospital. Once he arrives, the other residents encourage him to look at things a little differently. It turns out h...
The name day party. Everyone is dressed to the nines, but Akakiy adds up to at least an eleven. They fawn over his coat, going so far as to toast to it. Akakiy forgets to count his drinks, and ends up completely drunk. He gets lost on the way home, winding up in the rough part of town. Akakiy asks two men for directions, but instead, they kno...
Deux explorateurs proches du pôle nord - l'explorateur Peary devient confus.
Les enfants se maquillent tous et font voler le cerf-volant restauré d'Elijah.
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...
Cormack essaie de collecter des fonds pour les soins de Shanawdithit, sans succès. James Simms offre de s'occuper d'elle pendant l'absence de Cormack.
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...
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...
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...
Les réfugiés essayent des vêtements lorsque Dima et Konstantin entrent à la recherche d'Oksana. Konstantin offre de l'argent au père Alexandre pour Oksana et Clara appelle la police ; Konstantin et Dima partent avant l'arrivée de la police.
En Grèce, dans un bar, trois femmes sont retenues captives : Konstantin envoie Lyubia avec un homme d'affaires, Natalyia avec l'agent d'immigration qui la coupe, et Oksana est achetée par Konstantin aux enchères. Konstantin propose alors à la foule un viol collectif au moment où la police arrive pour faire une descente dans le bar. Au lieu de cela, il s'échappe avec Oksana et Natalyia.
Bien que d'autres se méfient au début, le Russe Konstantin convainc les adolescentes ukrainiennes Nataliya et Oksana de venir travailler pour lui dans un hôtel en Roumanie pendant l'été.
La gueule de bois, rentrant chez elle le matin après la fête, Mindy se souvient d'images troublantes de la nuit précédente - elle ne sait pas exactement ce qui s'est passé.
Des fêtards costumés traversent le campus en scandant.
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