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Canadian Opera Company Announces Participation in ‘Seven Veils’ by Atom Egoyan

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The Canadian Opera Company has announced that filming is set to begin next week in Toronto on “Seven Veils,” a new feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Atom Egoyan and Rhombus Media. The production will star Amanda Seyfried who will play Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, who has been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Ambur Braid on Working with Amanda Seyfried on ‘Seven Veils’ & Singing COC Production of ‘Salome’ at the Same Time

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Atom Egoyan‘s “Seven Veils” is an ambitious film. Set in Toronto, it follows Jeanine, a theater director doing a revival of “Salome” at the Canadian Opera Company. As she digs deeper into the production, created by her former mentor, Jeanine is faced with some of her past traumas uniting “reality” with the theatrical. The film delves deep into Jeanine’s psychology {…}

News

LA Opera & Beth Morrison Projects Give West Coast Premiere of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s ‘Adoration’

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(Photo Credit: Maria Baranova) Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian’s opera, “Adoration,” is set to makes its west coast premiere in a co-presentation by LA Opera and Beth Morrison Projects. Kouyoumdjian was awarded an OPERA America commissioning grant to create an opera adaptation of Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s “Adoration.” Written in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek, the operatic version touches {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

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Photo:  Maria Baranova Prototype Festival presented “Adoration” at New York City’s The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on January 12th, 2024. It was an innovative opera, featuring both voices, an amplified string quartet, and technical sound engineering, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. This world premiere, shockingly timely, challenged audience members to examine bias while {…}

IndieOpera

PROTOTYPE Unveils Programming 2024 Edition

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The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced its 2024 season, the 11th in the company’s history. Kicking things off will be the world premiere of Heather Christian’s “Terce.” The “radical rethinking of a monastic 9 am mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the ‘Holy Spirit’ through the lens of the Divine Feminine” features a 30-person choir, among others. Kennan {…}

News

Ambur Braid Leads Canadian Opera Company’s ‘Salome’

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The Canadian Opera Company is set to present R. Strauss’ “Salome.” The opera will be performed by Canadian soprano Ambur Braid and will also include Karita Mattila, who once was a great Salome, in the role of  Herodias, tenor Michael Schade as King Herod, baritone Michael Kupfer-Radecky in his COC and North American debut as Jochanaan, and, in a role {…}

News, Streaming

Canadian Opera Company Announces July Streams

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The Canadian Opera Company has announced its July digital streaming. The company will showcase “Bluebeard’s Castle” in Academy Award-nominated director Atom Egoyan’s production at the helm of an ambitious digital reimagining of Bela Bartók’s opera. The production stars American bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen in the title role and Canadian mezzo-soprano and Ensemble Studio graduate Krisztina Szabó as Judith. Streaming Date: Streaming {…}