Volume 8 Issue 7 - April 2003

Canadian Child~ Opera Chorus
Soundstr~s Canada
PRESENT *{ ~
music by Harry Somers .
story by Tim Wynne-Jones
Ann Cooper Gay, Conductor
Todd Hammond, Director
Bluma Appel Theatre
May 8 - 11, 2003
For Tickets Call: 416 366-7723
For group sales: 416 597-0965
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. Special thanks for a major contribution from
the Canadian Opera Creation Program,
a program of Opera.ca made possible
through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
TRYPlYCH
Canada's Passionate Advocate of the Vocal Arts Announces:
The Boqs from Sqracuse
(SUMMER MUSIC THEATRE WORKSHOP)
_Der Correi~~R?,~ ~YcE~)ugo Wolf
Tom Thumb the Great
(A HEW OPERA BY GERALD 8ER6)
The ffierrq Wives of Windsor
(WIHTER WORKSHOP PRODUCTION)
Das Rheinyold
(OPERA IH CONCERT)
PLEASE CALL ~16 763-5066 OR EMAIL IHFO@TRYPTYCll.OR6 TO BOOK AH AUDITION
opera. (Also, the film Amandla! A
Revolution in Four Part Harmony,
being shown on April 12,
chronicles South African liberation
songs throughout the struggle to end
apartheid.)
There's no shortage of Toronto
music theatre talent at World Stage
. either. Tapestry New Opera
Works is premiering Facing South,
a work by composer Linda Catlin
Smith and librettist, Don Hannah.
It uses .18 musicians and three
female voices to tell the story of
Robert Peary's explorations of
Gre.enland and the North. In
particular, it examines some of the
cultural assumptions that are
exemplified in the relationships of
Peary to the people he encountered
. on his travels - especially in an
episode in which Peary bro4ght a
group of six Greenlanders to New
York City as an "exhibit".
The always groundbreaking
Autumn Leaf Performance. is
presenting its p_reviously postponed
"water opera" Kafka in Love, now
scheduled for the Hart House Pool
at the University of Toronto, and,
in the "Future Tense" series,
Sandra Caldwell presents her
original one-woman show .The
Guide to being Fabulous after
You've Skinned your Knees, with
music by ·debonair local crooner
John Alcorn.
Other treats from the World Stage
grab bag: Quebec's sensational
dance-theatre phenomenon
Carbone 14, under the direction of
Gilles Maheu, returns to Toronto
with its new work La Bibliotheque;
Ute Lemper.performs an evening
of songs by Kurt Weill, Astor
Piazzolla, Hanns Eisler and herself
at Premiere Dance Theatre on
April 17, under the title But One
Day, while Broadway director
Sean Mathias appears at the
Directors Workshop series, fresh
from a big success with a revival
of Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Kafka in Love, Autumn Leaf'
conceived and directed
by Thom Sokoloski
The festival runs from April 1
to 27, mainly at Harbourfront, but
on other stages as well. For
complete information and tickets,
call 416-973-4000 or visit
www.harbourfront.on.ca.
AFRICAN RHYTHMS
Apart from World Stage
programming; two other upcoming
shows take th!!ir inspiration from
African politics. On April 5 the
Freetong Players perform Wuomi,
based on the story of Sierra Leone's
civil war. Then from April 10 to
May 18, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre
for Young People presents In the
Freedom of Dreams: The Story of
Nelson Mandela by Michael Miller,
with Dora-winner ·George
Seremba (Come Good Rain) as
Mandela himself. Choreography is
by the also-Dora-winning Vivine
Scarlett (Adventures of a Black
Girl in Search of God), with
musical direction by Welcome
Ngozi.
FIVE FROM SOUNDSTREAMS
Soundstreams Canada and CBC
Radio Two have come up with
Musicools, "A Festival for Young
Audiences with a northern twist."
It includes five show~ by
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