Le compositeur Gareth Williams et le librettiste David James Brock ont créé un opéra-promenade in situ inspiré du plus ancien pub de Glasgow, Sloans. Le public se déplace dans ce pub vieux de 250 ans et découvre une série de scènes racontant des histoires d’amour, de perte, de vengeance et de pardon.
Consisting of 18 scenes, the opera covers 16 years in the life of Manitoba school teacher and Métis hero Louis Riel, from the Red River Rebellion (1869–70) to the North-West Rebellion (1884–85), and his trial and hanging in Regina in 1885. It also dramatizes the political scheming in Ottawa that resulted from Riel’s actions, as well as several ...
A not-so-pure Maiden is sent to marry a not-so-manly Lord, who is advised by a not-so-celibate Priest, and protected by a not-so-insensitive Thug in an England ruled by a King who won’t get out of bed. Based on the award winning play by Moira Buffini.
The opera is a poetic love story following resistance against a fictional state that oppresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. It centres on the rebellious Solana and her beloved Lilah, who is now a wife and mother; together, they fight for a new future, even as their secret romance is threatened by Lilah’s unpredictable h...
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.
A multicultural retelling of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
"The jealous king Leontes’ wife, Hermione, is accused of committing adultery with his best friend, Polixenes, and Hermione is jailed. Soon after, Leontes and Hermione’s young son dies before she gives birth to a daughter Perdita who is smuggled out of the country after Hermione’s s...
I Have No Stories to Tell You mines the aftereffects of war through the story of a soldier’s return home from an extended assignment on the battlefield. Written as a companion piece to Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, the opera explores war as a catalyst for changed identity through th...
"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...
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...
A young mother with her infant daughter is threatened by an armed military officer escorting prisoners. She wants to wait for her husband, but the officer tells her he is probably already dead. The woman sings a lament to her baby, then pleads with the officer to take her baby and raise her as his own.
Avertissement de contenu : mention de meurtre, de violence, de poison
Four Victorian women sit down for a most unusual tea time. The women have two things in common: their dislike of the other women and of their husbands. Each woman refuses to drink tea for one reason or another while brainstorming ideas such as poison, prison, bee-stings or drowning. But who...
Chloe et Eddie sont au lit lorsqu'ils sont interrompus par Matt, l'ex-mari de Chloe, un athlète. Matt demande où se trouve leur fille Ava, et reproche à Chloe d'avoir abandonné Ava pour un homme anonyme.
A man at a restaurant thinks he recognizes a woman seated alone at the next table. Could she be a famous author he just read? As the pieces of this miscalculation come together for the woman, we find that she is surprised to be noticed, and taken aback that she’s assumed to be a string theory expert. The scene flips an expected script of expecta...
Une famille nucléaire à la dérive dans l’ère atomique. Depuis que Prométhée a volé le feu aux dieux, l’humanité joue avec la dangereuse beauté de la science. Dans cette fable caricaturée, un père protège sa famille à tout prix.
Thomas and Claire fall madly in love at a fundraising party. Thomas has decided to “find a wife, get a life,” whi...
After the tragic death of her first child, a baby daughter, Isabelle has run away to another town in Spain to escape the grief, leaving her husband Hector with a double loss. They are a working-class couple. The scene opens with Isabelle expecting a client in a seedy bordello. Hector has found her. He entreats...
La nuit, sur un quai au bord d'un lac. Des bougies ont été soigneusement disposées sur le côté du quai pour éclairer un chemin. Adèle se tient au bout d'un quai, tenant une urne qui contient les cendres de son mari. Elle enlève le couvercle de l'urne et se met à répandre les cendres sur l'eau.
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...
Noor Over Afghan is set in Afghanistan, and tells the story of two young Afghani sisters, Noor and Jaan. But Jaan is dying, and begs Noor to take her place in the marriage and have her child. By the time the groom finds out, Jaan will have died. They swap places, Noor disguised by the veil.
Avertissement de contenu : mort, meurtre, suicide, xénophobie
Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...
George and Martha have three very different versions of a difficult conversation over breakfast. The first two represent what happens in George’s mind when his wife insults him over breakfast. One is violent and reactionary, with George screaming and verbally abusing Martha. The other is more considered, as Georg...
Avertissement de contenu : maladie en phase terminale
This is not a biographical opera, it is an exploration of an emotional journey. At age 5, Jacqueline has instant chemistry and sparks fly when she meets her cello. Their relationship grows stronger and closer, and Jacqueline matures into a charismatic and likeable teen, powerful on major stages. Soon she is a...
Chloe et Eddie sont en proie à l'amour lorsqu'ils sont interrompus par Matt, l'ex-mari athlète de Chloe. Matt demande où est leur fille Ava et critique Chloe pour avoir abandonné Ava pour un homme.
Une confrontation nocturne entre une mère et son fils. Le fils l'accuse d'avoir eu une liaison avec son oncle et d'avoir tué son père. Il a trouvé un médecin à Chinatown qui pourra prouver que son père a été empoisonné. La mère prétend qu'elle l'a fait pour mettre fin à sa douleur.
Quatre femmes victoriennes s'assoient pour un tea time des plus insolites. Les femmes ont deux choses en commun : leur aversion pour les autres femmes et pour leurs maris. Chaque femme refuse de boire du thé pour une raison ou une autre tout en réfléchissant à des idées telles que le poison, la prison, les piqûres d'abeilles ou la noyade. Mais contre qui complotent-ils : leurs partenaires ou entre eux ?
Dans un restaurant, un homme flirte avec une femme qu'il croit reconnaître. Elle est émotionnellement franche avec lui, mais il s'avère qu'elle n'est pas celle qu'il pense être.
Le jour du mariage du jeune couple de la première scène, le vieil homme désormais sobre arrive avec une surprise : sa femme. Et ils veulent récupérer leur bague.
Jaan rencontre un groupe de femmes tribales dans le désert qui la convainquent de rester avec elles jusqu'à sa mort. Noor prend la place de Jaan dans le cercle.