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Opéras
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 : mort, meurtre, violence
The Laurels is a short one-act opera — a contemporary retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth, conceived as a thriller charting one woman’s psychological unravelling in the aftermath of a harrowing crisis.
Laurel runs through the forest of a city park at night, chased by a male Stranger. He’s eviden...
The Laurels is a short one-act opera — a contemporary retelling of the Daphne and Apollo myth, conceived as a thriller charting one woman’s psychological unravelling in the aftermath of a harrowing crisis.
Laurel runs through the forest of a city park at night, chased by a male Stranger. He’s eviden...
Musique : Jeffrey Ryan
Livret : Michael Lewis MacLennan
Avertissement de contenu : mort, infanticide, meurtre
A rumble of hooves. A family is fleeing, but the baby is slowing them down. The mother is forced to choose between her husband and her child. She chooses the husband and tries to get the baby to sleep before letting it go over a waterfall. At the last minute, the baby awakes, and the mother’s grief ...
A rumble of hooves. A family is fleeing, but the baby is slowing them down. The mother is forced to choose between her husband and her child. She chooses the husband and tries to get the baby to sleep before letting it go over a waterfall. At the last minute, the baby awakes, and the mother’s grief ...
Musique : Norbert Palej
Livret : Maja Ardal
Proving Up, based on a story by Karen Russell, is an opera about the American Dream, told through the story of Nebrasken homesteaders in the 1870s. A family dreams of "proving up" and obtaining the deed to the land they've settled. They obsessively list the requirements of the Homestead Act: five years of harvest, a sod house dwelling, and perha...
Musique : Missy Mazzoli
Livret : Royce Vavrek
A humorous, pun-filled mini-opera, Bianchi follows two bicycles striving to catch up to the sleek, elusive Bianchi model ahead on the trail.
Musique : Tobin Stokes
Livret : Tobin Stokes
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Extraits
George célèbre le 25e anniversaire de son usine de papier au moyen d'une annonce importante. On rencontre Lily. Freddy reçoit de mauvaises nouvelles.
Jérémie, amoureux de Lily, révèle qu'il est le fils illégitime de l'ancien propriétaire de l'usine, Skinner. Il demande l'aide de Freddy pour un plan.
Brigitta est amoureuse de Jérémie. Jeremiah, Freddy et Brigitta récupèrent l'acte de naissance de Jeremiah dans la maison Taylor où Brigitta l'a trouvé. Jérémie donne un mot à Freddy pour Lily. Lui et Lily quittent la ville lorsque Jérémie récupère sa fortune.
Henri s'exprime de façon poétique sur son amour non réciproque et a une idée.
George a une proposition pour Lily. Henri a quelque chose à avouer. Le Great Recorder Smackdown a lieu et Lily est prise entre deux feux.
Freddy reçoit d'autres mauvaises nouvelles, et se lamente sur la fin d'une amitié.
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.
Une jeune femme, Laurel, traverse une forêt sombre, remplie d'anxiété et hantée par des souvenirs inquiétants.
Laurel stabs the Stranger, killing him. As his body slides to the ground to rest at her feet, she begins to feel a new sense of freedom, not realising that it is at the cost of her conscience and her humanity. The aria should be performed with an improvisational blues quality over the regular pulse of the accompaniment, to convey both this sense...
Dans un parc boisé la nuit, on dirait que Laurel court pour sauver sa vie, mais il s'avère qu'elle fuit le souvenir du meurtre qu'elle a commis cette nuit-là.
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