From the Tapestry New Opera Works press release of Dec. 20, here is some further info on Opera To Go, running March 1, 2 (previews), 3, 8, 9, 11, 16, and 17 at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto's historic distillery district:
Opera to Go showcases six 15-minute chamber operas by composer-writer teams who were matched in Tapestry’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory, an annual opera "boot camp" that brings together artists of various disciplines to explore the operatic art form. The librettists are playwrights, poets, journalists and screenwriters; the composers have written for film, orchestra, chamber ensembles, soloists, choirs, and multimedia collectives. The programme features composer Richard Payne and librettist Joseph Maviglia’s Binoculars: looking at high art and feeling low, two friends see double at a Dali show; A young woman is caught in a dark triangle of longing, lust and loss in The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G composed by Aaron Gervais with libretto by Colleen Murphy; Netsuke, a poetic meditation (in Haiku) on the precious Japanese objects by composer Rose Bolton and librettist Jill Battson; Ashlike in the Cradle of the Wind by composer Andrew Staniland and librettist Jill Battson, in which the arc of life and the shape of love are changed by AIDS; a grown man seeks his birth mother in Gotcha by composer Darren Fung & librettist Betty Jane Wylie; and a young man finds himself alone in a circle of friends in Unfamiliar by Darren Fung and librettist Dave Deveau.
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