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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
Un homme d'affaires attend un tramway, le dos tourné à une femme sans abri. Les deux hommes se jugent en silence. L'homme est agacé de voir quelqu'un qui veut quelque chose pour rien et la femme se sent jugée pour une situation sur laquelle elle n'a aucun contrôle. Les deux se reconnaissent enfin, et nous découvrons leur expérience commune.
Musique : Iman Habibi
Livret : Michael Pollard
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 ...
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 ...
Musique : Rene Orth
Livret : Hannah Moscovitch
A young refugee panhandling on the street shares her true frustrations with and feelings towards the people who walk by, and occasionally give her small change or an online donation.
Musique : Prokhor Protasoff
Livret : Sarah Henstra
Content warning: blood, gun violence, murder
Pedro Carmona, a young surgeon and son of a prominent Portuguese general, has escaped military service in Angola in 1968 by fleeing to Toronto with his upper-class wife Constanza. In order to survive, he has taken two jobs while he retrains to qualify as a doctor. The opera begins as Constanza—sick...
Pedro Carmona, a young surgeon and son of a prominent Portuguese general, has escaped military service in Angola in 1968 by fleeing to Toronto with his upper-class wife Constanza. In order to survive, he has taken two jobs while he retrains to qualify as a doctor. The opera begins as Constanza—sick...
Musique : James Rolfe
Livret : Paul Bentley
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.
Musique : Dean Burry
Livret : Dean Burry
Trois jeunes archéologues, perdus dans le désert égyptien, se penchent sur le mythe antique d'Isis pour tenter de sauver leur professeur mourant. Plongés au cœur d'une lutte épique d'un passé lointain, ils découvrent le pouvoir guérisseur de la sagesse ancestrale.
Musique : Dean Burry
Livret : Dean Burry
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
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Ma Zegner, after doing all that’s required of her as stipulated by the Homestead Act, confronts the deaths of her children and rails against fate.
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A deranged, dirt-covered man sings obsessively about the infinite promise of westward expansion. He speaks of his family and how they couldn’t make it, but that doesn’t seem to matter to him because he has fulfilled all the requirements of the Homestead Act. It’s possible that he came to see his family as an impediment to “proving up” and has ki...
Johannes Zegner sings of the “queer little trees” at a neighbor’s abandoned homestead. These trees are actually gravestones – crosses made of human bones.
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Johannes Zegner, an alcoholic homesteader in drought-ridden 1870s Nebraska, tries to convince his son to make a dangerous journey that will help the family obtain the title to their land.
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Miles saddles up his horse, Nore, and sets off on his own hero’s journey, determined to help his family “prove up” and attain the title to their land. His youthful optimism is counteracted by the inhospitable environment and the presence of mysterious supernatural elements.
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Miles, an adolescent boy, reflects on the meaning of home as his family struggles and fails to build a homestead.
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Un homme d'affaires attend un tramway, le dos tourné à une femme sans abri. Les deux hommes se jugent en silence. L'homme est agacé de voir quelqu'un qui veut quelque chose pour rien et la femme se sent jugée pour une situation sur laquelle elle n'a aucun contrôle. Les deux se reconnaissent enfin, et nous découvrons leur expérience commune.
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 he h...
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 cut c...
Petrovich déclare que le manteau d'Akakiy est complètement irréparable, mais aussi que c'est l'occasion pour Akakiy de choisir quelque chose de nouveau. Évidemment, il aura à payer.
Akakiy révèle sa fascination pour les chiffres, et le chœur annonce qu'ils aideront à comptabiliser les choses. Sa propriétaire entre pour lui apporter de la soupe aux choux - et plus encore, ce qu'il refuse.
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