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Nabaz’Mob – Ambient rabbits perform in the Tapestry Studio: A free Luminato Exhibit

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

This week Tapestry’s Ernest Balmer Studio is home to Nabaz’Mob, a free visual arts event for Luminato.

A Nabaztag is a nine-inch-tall Wi-Fi-enabled “ambient device” in the shape of a stylized rabbit. Artist, programming engineer, and designer Antoine Schmitt and composer, film director, multimedia author, and sound designer Jean-Jacques Birgé bring together one hundred of these quirky little creatures – each equipped with flashing lights, moving ears and a built-in speaker – to perform a musical and choreographic score for three voices.

Click here for more info on Nabaz’Mob at Luminato or here for the full site.

Come by during one of these times:

Tuesday, June 15: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Wednesday, June 16: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Thursday, June 17: 12:30PM and 6:00PM (special performances)

Friday, June 18: 5:00PM – 10:00PM (drop-in viewings)

Saturday, June 19: 12:00PM – 8:00PM (drop-in viewings)

Sunday, June 20: 12:00PM – 6:00PM (drop-in viewings)

The Ernest Balmer Studio at Tapestry is located in the Distillery Historic District
55 Mill St. Bldg. 58. Studio 315
Toronto, ON

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Wayne & Harley in Toronto Star Celebrity Shopping

Monday, June 7th, 2010

In advance of Dark Star Requiem which opens this Friday at Koerner Hall, Rita Zekas of the Toronto Star spent an afternoon shopping with Tapestry Managing Artistic Director Wayne Strongman and his loveable dog (and Distillery District Mascot) Harley.

Click on the image to check it out:

Dark Star Requiem

A world premiere from Tapestry & Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity featuring the Elmer Iseler Singers and the Gryphon Trio.

A devastating global pandemic. A full-scale dramatic oratorio. In this unusual marriage of content and form, poet Jill Battson and composer Andrew Staniland trace the twenty-five-year history of AIDS from its origins to the present day.

June 11 & 12, 2010 at 8pm at The Royal Conservatory,
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, Koerner Hall
TICKETS: $30-50
416-872-1111 / 1-866-577-4277 ticketmaster.ca
416-408-0208 Royal Conservatory of Music

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Free performances of Get Stuffed, May 15 in the Distillery District!

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Christopher Ryan in Get Stuffed. Photo (c) Meghan Hall

Great News! We’ve been touring Get Stuffed, a new opera for children set in the school cafeteria for 2 years in schools across Ontario. We’ve been trying to find the best way to bring this super fun show to a larger, public audience and we are thrilled to partner with the Distillery Historic District to end the 2010 tour on May 15, 2010 with a free family day including 3 outdoor performances and fun food workshops and activities. Visitors will also have the opportunity to help fight hunger by dropping off a non-perishable food donation to support the Daily Bread Food Bank and to collect information and parent resources from ChildFind Canada who assist in the search for and prevention of missing children.

May 15, 2010
PEFORMANCES
11:00am, 1:00pm and 3:00pm in Trinity Square in the Distillery Historic District
55 Mill Street (north east of Parliament St. and Lakeshore Blvd) Toronto, ON.
An onsite indoor location will be available in case of rain.

Written by Toronto composer Richard Payne and Montreal writer Alexis Diamond for 5 singing actors and 2 musicians, Get Stuffed is about a timely message, making healthy food choices. Developed with Words in Motion and the Canadian Diabetes Association, Get Stuffed promotes environmentally-friendly, healthy food choices inspired by the Canada Food Guide, with special prominence for fruits and vegetables grown in Ontario.

Includes a food fight!!!

Get Stuffed is supported by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ministry of Health Promotion, Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc. and Loblaws Canada.

For more information on Get Stuffed and the 2010 company please visit getstuffed.ca

Artist Pictured: Christopher Ryan. Photo © Meghan Hall

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3 Opera Briefs at the TSO New Creations Festival tomorrow, Feb.25

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

NCF

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s annual New Creations Festival presents the best in contemporary orchestral music, pushing the boundaries of sound with premières from today’s hottest composers. One of the ‘Festival Extras’ is free pre-concert lobby performances and for the Azul concert on Thursday February 25th, Tapestry will be entertaining audience members with three 5-minute Opera Briefs.

Purchase an “$8 ticket to the concert then come to the lobby of Roy Thompson Hall at 7:20pm and enjoy:

What is She? (from Opera Briefs 9)
Anna Chatterton, librettist / John Harris, composer

The Sermon (from Opera Briefs 9)
Bernard MacLaverty, librettist / John Harris, composer

Betty Box Office (from Opera Briefs 8)
Ken Gass, librettist / Jack Perla, composer

These ‘briefs’ will be performed by soprano Carla Huhtanen, tenor Keith Klassen, baritone Peter McGillivray and pianist Christopher Foley.

For $8 Tickets to the New Creations Festival visit:

www.tso.ca/weboffers

Use the Promo. Code : TANGO

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Opera to Go – Volunteer Opportunity

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

We are looking for volunteers to help in various positions throughout run of Opera to Go taking place March 24, 25 & 26, 2010.

As a volunteer you will assist Tapestry as we present the Opera to Go revival at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery Historic District. Experience some of Tapestry’s favourite short operas from the past 8 seasons in one of Toronto’s most exciting venues and be a part of the action as we use the entire space to create 5 different worlds full of comedy, drama and suspense.

Opera to Go Volunteer Positions available:
Tour Guides
This will be an evening that the audience will never forget and in order to pull it off we need a team of volunteers to assist in seamlessly leading the audience around the space in between the short performances.
Bartenders (must be 19 + and Smart Serve certified)
Coat Check
Box Office Table

Time Requirements
Volunteers will be required to arrive at 7:00pm to prep for an 8:00pm performance time. Individuals volunteering as Tour Guides will be require to attend the Opera to Go dress rehearsal taking place March 23, 2010 at 8:00pm to learn the route.

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Amber Ebert, ambere@tapestrynewopera.com or 416.537.6066 x224 to sign up.

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Opera to Go Tickets are On Sale Now!

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Opera to Go 2010 eflyer

Tickets are on sale now for Tapestry’s Opera to Go Revival!

Opera to Go runs March 24-26, 2010 at the Fermenting Cellar, Distillery Historic District and features short operas by Michael Lewis MacLennan & Jeffrey Ryan, Jill Battson & Andrew Staniland, Mark Brownell & Chan Ka Nin, Camyar Chai & James Rolfe and Lisa Codrington & Kevin Morse.

Click here for more info.

Tickets: $40 / $20
Box Office: 416.537.6066 (x243) or online

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Wayne Strongman to be recognized at CMC 50th Anniversary Event

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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There are a lot of anniversaries this year, including Tapestry’s 30th. Our friends a the Canadian Music Centre are proudly celebrating 50 years! To honour the milestone anniversary the CMC has partnered with the National Arts Centre and its orchestra for a special concert and birthday reception, November 9th at the NAC in Ottawa.

The birthday event will recognize 50 performers and conductors “who have played exceptional roles in shaping the Canadian music scene and raising the profile of Canadian music. The CMC is pleased to honour these individuals at this event”.

Tapestry Managing Artistic Director Wayne Strongman is one of them!

Click here to read more about the event.

Click here for a full list of the 50 honourees.

Click here for ticket info. on the November 9th event.

Happy Birthday to the CMC!

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La Senorita Mundo – A new opera from Njo Kong Kie & Kico Gonzalez Risso

Friday, August 7th, 2009

La Senorita Mundo

A new operatic allegory La Senorita Mundo opens tonight (August 7 at 8pm) at The Theatre Centre in Toronto.

Composer Njo Kong Kie and librettist / director Kico Gonzalez Risso met in 2004 at Tapestry’s Directors’ Lab, both already graduates of Tapestry’s annual LibLab.

Kico stage directed a piece composed by Kong Kie in LibLab that year (the first 5 min of what became knotty together with a libretto by Anna Chatterton). Kong Kie also music directed a piece which Kico stage directed. Such is the collaborative process here at Tapestry…

Subsequently, Kong Kie wrote a song for Kico for his radio cabaret musical Ghost in Love, which was performed in Vancouver.

La Senorita Mundo is the latest collaboration from the pair.  Running 50+ minutes it is part of Toronto’s Summerworks festival and features Tapestry regular Keith Klassen (tenor) and Vilma Vitols (mezzo).

Click here for full schedule and ticket info on the Summerworks website or call .

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6 Dora Nominations for Tapestry!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Xin Wang & Alvin Crawford in Sanctuary Song. Photo (c) John Lauener, 2008

Great news yesterday: Tapestry productions have received 6 Dora Award Nominations. Winners will be named at an awards ceremony June 29, 2009 at the Wintergarden Theatre in Toronto. Congratulations to all the nominees!

In the Best New Opera/Musical Category:

Sanctuary Song
Abigail Richardson, composer / Marjorie Chan, librettist

Opera to Go: The Perfect Screw
Alexis Diamond, librettist / Abigail Richardson, composer

Opera to Go: The Virgin Charlie
Taylor Graham, librettist / William Rowson, composer

Opera to Go: My Mother’s Ring
Marcia Johnson, librettist / Stephen Andrew Taylor, composer

In the Best Direction for an Opera/Musical Category:

Wayne Strongman (for Opera to Go)

In the Best Opera Production Category:

Sanctuary Song
Presented by Tapestry & Theatre Direct in partnership with Luminato

Each opera nominated is eligible for the Dora’s Audience Choice Award. You can vote for your favourite at www.nowtoronto.com

Artists Featured: Xin Wang & Alvin Crawford in Sanctuary Song
Photo © John Lauener, 2008

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Opera to Go is a go…this Thursday through Sunday!

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Opera to Go 2009

Friendly reminder here, if you are in the GTA this weekend….


…OPERA TO GO begins its 4 performance run this Thursday at the Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre.

Four world premieres in one performance: a tea party gone very wrong in ONE LUMP OR TWO, the suspense drama MY MOTHER’S RING, a major surprise in store for THE VIRGIN CHARLIE and a quest for supremacy in THE PERFECT SCREW! There will also be a surprise in store for anyone near the box office part of the lobby about 15 minutes before curtain.

There are a range of ticket offers available:

REGULAR PERFORMANCES
$40 regular tickets and $20 arts worker & student tickets are available for all of our regular performances: March 27 at 8pm, March 28 at 8pm and March 29 at 3pm.

We’ve also got some “birds eye view” seats available for $25, around the stage and between the orchestra and a 2nd stage or “passerelle” where director Tom Diamond has staged some of the action. They are $25 because you might have to turn your head from time to time, but they put you right in the middle of the action and it should be a great experience!

COMMUNITY NIGHT
On Thursday March 26 at 8pm, Tapestry will host a Community Night & Press Opening. All tickets are only $20 for this special performance. Be the first to experience the 2009 short operas and then join us in the Enwave Theatre lobby for a casual post-show reception.

BOX OFFICE
Regular & Student tickets can be purchased at harbourfrontcentre.com or 416.973.4000

Arts Worker rate available by phone or in person – not online, unfortunately.  Sorry!

Click here for more info on OPERA TO GO 

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