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Tapestry Opera Launches Canadian Opera Resource COR

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Tapestry Opera has announced the launch of COR, the Canadian Opera Resource. This wiki-style database will allow performers, musicologists, and producers access to Tapestry’s four decades of Canadian opera materials. Canadian creators and producers will be able to add their own works to grow the database, as well as promote it to reach new audiences. Likes and recommendations will lead {…}

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Tapestry Opera Announces 2022-23 Season

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Tapestry Opera has revealed its plans for the 2022-23 season. The season opens with “Tapestry Briefs: Les Shorts qui chanting” as led by director Tim Albery. The showcase features bilingual sketches, shorts, and scenes created by Canadian composers and librettists. The showcase will take place at the Alliance de Francaise de Toronto’s Spadina Theatre. Performances Dates: Oct. 27 – 30, {…}

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Tapestry Opera Announces Third Year of ‘Box Concerts’

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Tapestry Opera has announced the third year of its “Box Concerts” series, which will run from July through September 2022. This summer, the company will offer more than 60 free opera performances in nursing homes and another 30 in suburban neighborhoods around the Toronto area. The lineup of performers for each performance includes baritone Korin Thomas-Smith, sopranos Natalya Gennadi, Meher {…}

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Tapestry Opera & OCAD University Explore Technological Convergence in ‘R.U.R. A Tapestry of Light’

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On May 24, 2022, Tapestry Opera, in collaboration with Toronto’s OCAD University, will present the world premiere of “R.U.R. A Torrent of Light.” This operatic experience, by composer Nicole Lizee and writer Nicolas Billon, is based on Czch playwright Karel Capek’s 1920s, science fiction play “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” which first introduced the word and concept of “robots” to the world. {…}

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Toronto’s Tapestry Opera & Nightwood Theatre Asked to Leave Venue After 20 Years

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Photo : Dahlia Katz Artscape has asked Tapestry Opera and Nightwood Theatre to vacate their offices and The Ernest Balmer Studio in Toronto’s Distillery Historic District. The unexpected move leaves Nightwood Theatre without an artistic home as of March 2022. Tapestry Opera must leave by August 2022. According to the press release, Artscape did not consult with its long-term artistic {…}

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Tapestry Opera Announces 2022 Performances

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Canadian company Tapestry Opera has announced its upcoming performances for 2022. First up will be “Gould’s Wall” which will take place at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, with singers suspended on the atrium wall. The work, which was composed by Brian Current and written by Liza Balka, is inspired by the legendary career of Glenn Gould. The opera will star {…}

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Tapestry Opera Launches New Female Driven Program

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Toronto’s Tapestry Opera has partnered with organizations across Canada to launch an innovative program focusing on female-identifying musicians. The Women in Musical Leadership program will seek to address professional gender imbalances affecting classical music and opera. The program will serve a total of six female-identifying and non-binary conductors with full-time professional fellowships spanning over three years and participants will also partner {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Tapestry Opera, Tamara Wilson Headline 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominees

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(Image Source: Canadian Opera Company) The Toronto Alliance for Performing Arts has unveiled the nominees for the 2020 Dora Mavor Moore Awards. For this article, our sole focus will be on nominations related to the opera world. Tapestry Opera led the way with 13 nominations spread over two different projects, including three nominations apiece in the Outstanding Achievement in Design {…}

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Tapestry Opera to Present World Premiere of Opera Inspired by Jacqueline Du Pré

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Tapestry Opera is set to present the world premiere of “Jacqueline: A Portrait of Virtuosity” starting on Feb. 19, 2020 at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto, Canada. The opera, which is written by Royce Vavrek with music by Luna Pearl, tells the story of iconic cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and her battle with the multiple sclerosis that ultimately took {…}