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...

Naomi’s Road, which details a young Japanese-Canadian girl’s experiences as her family is interned during World War II, is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the power of hope, cultural understanding and compassion. This compelling and emotional story is taken from one of our country’s most painful and complex social periods, a time that for ...

Unwilling to marry a woman, a man fashions a lover from his own left side. He’s enraptured by her perfect beauty – a mirror of his own – until he discovers that this new woman longs for freedom and wildly desires another.

Content warning: ableism, institutionalization, medical abuse, mental illness, sanism, sexual violence

10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera that plays with notions of madness, inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who in 1887 faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell’s Asylum for the Insane and report ...

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...

Avertissement de contenu : captivité, traite des personnes, travail du sexe, violence sexuelle, violence, mort

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 ...

Avertissement de contenu : décès, 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...

Avertissement de contenu : descriptions d'esclavage, de violence, de violence sexuelle, de mort

A father will do anything to save his daughter. Of the Sea follows the story of Maduka, his daughter Binyelum, and fellow Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage who now populate mythical underwater kingdoms that span the ocean floor. Amidst the waves, ...

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...

Avertissement de contenu: captivité, perte de mémoire

Laura est enfermée de force dans un sous-sol pendant des années ; elle se libère et s'approche d'un étranger dans la rue. Elle se demande si l'étranger se souvient d'elle et découvre qu'elle se souvient à peine d'elle-même.

An opera for all ages. Sydney, an Asian elephant poached at a young age from the jungles of Indonesia, recalls her remarkable life in captivity, far from home, as her keeper of 22 years leads her on a journey towards sanctuary in the hills of Tennessee. A dynamic weaving of opera and dance unearths friendships lost and found and restores a stole...

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...

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...

Avertissement de contenu : endoctrinement politique, interrogatoire

Winston Smith est interrogé par un membre du Parti pour quelque chose qu'il a écrit dans son journal. Dans cette scène, Smith lutte pour différencier sa réalité de celle qui existe dans l'esprit du Parti.

Avertissement de contenu : antisémitisme, génocide, Holocauste, infanticide, meurtre, nazis, violence sexuelle, travail du sexe, violence, guerre

Still the Night tells the fictional story of two Jewish Polish cousins, both named Bryna, who have escaped from the Nazis and joined the Partisans. Along the way they are hung on crosses, raped, almost shot and forced to tu...

As the waves crash against the shore, two religious brothers go for a walk. The conversation is dominated by the older brother, and heavy with implication. The younger one announces his wish to leave the order, and is asked if his father’s death has something to do with this decision. The younger brother is furious; he could have spoken to his f...

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 -...

Acte I, Scène 1
Automne 1915


Dans le parc d'une petite ville du col de Crowsnest, famille et amis célèbrent le mariage de Filumena Costanzo et Charlie Lassandro. Au fil des festivités, Filumena semble distante, déconcertée par la brusquerie de son nouvel époux. Charlie lui a donné un nouveau prénom “ canadien ”, Florence, qu'elle refuse catégoriquement.

JFK explores the final twelve hours of the 35th president’s life and time spent in Fort Worth, Texas. But far from being a musical biography, JFK is a portrait of a precipice. The fleeting moments of hope before a cosmic page turned, optimism faltered, and America was forced into a new and uncertain era. The opera is a portrayal of the man as we...

Une femme trébuche, Winston l'aide à se relever. Cette interaction en apparence banale signifie beaucoup plus lorsque l'homme lit les mots sur le morceau de papier plié qui a été placé dans sa main. Des mots qui ont tant de sens, mais qui comportent aussi tant de risques.

Avertissement : ce contenu contient des scènes de maltraitance, de mort, d’incendie et de violence.

Fanny et Alexandre est un grand opéra en deux actes, adapté du film d'Ingmar Bergman par Mikael Karlsson et Royce Vavrek, avec le soutien de la succession Bergman et la consultation artistique de Cinematograph AB (Ingmar Bergman Jr. et Claes du Rietz).

ACTE 1

Noël chez les Ekdahl. Hélène...

La Démocratie gît morte dans un cercueil, pleurée par deux citoyens...

« Elle repose en silence dans un cercueil de glace, les bras liés par un drapeau, les yeux cousus ensemble, la bouche fermée par un fil… »

Mais lentement, la Démocratie relève sa faible tête et supplie les deux citoyens de la maintenir en vie en exécutant une tâche difficile mais nécessaire.

Content warning: death, injury, paralysis, sexual violence, suicide attempt, violence

Based on the film by Lars von Trier, Breaking the Waves tells the story of Bess McNeill, a religious young woman with a deep love for her husband Jan, a handsome oil rig worker in 1970's Scotland. When Jan becomes paralyzed in an off-shore accident, Bess’s m...

Avertissement de contenu : violence sexuelle, incarcération, abus religieux, homophobie, thérapie de conversion

À travers plusieurs vignettes, Forbidden explore la notion de règles et de tabous. Protègent-ils les individus ou les contrôlent-ils ? Ont-ils une quelconque valeur ou exploitent-ils simplement les plus vulnérables ?

Une jeune fille, punie par la répétition de textes religieux...

Content warning: attempted suicide, death, drowning, natural disaster

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer, nomad, journalist, novelist, passionate romantic, Sufi, and one of the most unique and unusual women of her era. At age twenty, after the death of her mother, brother and father, she left her life in Switzerland for a nomadic ...

Content warning: abuse, death, incarceration, sex trafficking, sex work

Angel's Bone follows the plight of two angels whose nostalgia for earthly delights has, mysteriously, brought them back to our world. Battered and bruised from their long journey, they are found by a husband and wife, Mr. and Mrs. X. E.

Facing a financial crisis, the c...

Inspired by the Italian fairy tale Giricoccola by Italo Calvino, Angela and Her Sisters tells the story of a sweet girl who is wickedly teased by her stepsisters.  She eventually is recused by the Moon, but finds her new home no better than the first.  Finally her search leads her to a lonely princess who becomes a true friend.

Based on the German fairy tale, The Bremen Town Musicians follows the adventures of four elderly animals who escape their neglectful owners and set out on their own.

Cet opéra pour enfants combine trois contes de fées recueillis par les frères Grimm : Rapunzel, Le Petit Chaperon rouge et Rumpelstiltskin, le tout tissé avec des éléments de l'histoire vraie des frères.

Avertissement : contenu explicite (exécution, inceste, meurtre, agression sexuelle, esclavage, torture, violence)

Beatrice Chancy est un drame historique inspiré de l'histoire vraie de la famille Cenci à Rome, vers 1600. L'histoire se déroule dans une plantation de Nouvelle-Écosse, aux derniers jours de l'esclavage, vers 1800, et met en scène l'héroïne, Béatrice, fille métisse de...

Seeking his wife Eurydice in the underworld, Orpheus implores Hades to let him bring her back to life. Hades gives in reluctantly, on condition that Orpheus not look back at Eurydice while she is being led back to earth. The reunited couple begin their journey back. Hades praises the peacefulness of the underworld over the turbulence of life on ...

Content warning: abduction, sexual assault, violence

Europa was a Phoenician princess who was seduced and borne off to Crete by Zeus. There she bore him three sons, who became the founding fathers of Europe. It's telling that European civilization, which has been a mixed blessing for the rest of the world, was founded upon what could be seen ...

Pirate Song raconte l'histoire vraie de deux femmes pirates du XVIIIe siècle, Mary Read, Anglaise, et Ann Bonny, Irlandaise. Pour prendre la mer, elles se déguisèrent en hommes et mêlèrent affaires et plaisir en devenant amantes en 1720 à bord d'un navire pirate commandé par Calico Jack Rackham. Attaquées par la couronne britannique plus tard cette année-là en Jamaïque….