Check out some great shots from the world premiere production of The Shadow.
The Shadow runs until May 30 at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
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Artists featured: Theodore Baerg, Scott Belluz, Carla Huhtanen, Keith Klassen & Peter McGillivray
All Photos are © Michael Cooper, CooperShoots, 2009.
Here is what some of the reviewers have been writing about The Shadow.
From the Globe & Mail:
“The recession has done no harm to debt collectors, whose booming business gives an unforeseen timeliness to The Shadow, the new opera by composer Omar Daniel and librettist Alex Poch-Goldin. This engrossing 90-minute piece, which was performed for the first time on Thursday, tells the story of a postman who borrows too much money in order to deceive and impress a bored upper-class woman he meets on his route.”
Read the full review here:
From EYE Weekly:
“A clever mix of comic opera and high melodrama, this humorous and heightened world premiere seems designed to be enjoyed by opera aficionados and lay-folk alike.”
Read the full review here:
http://www.eyeweekly.com/arts/theatre/article/61364
The Shadow runs tonight at 8pm and tomorrow at 4pm and next week Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
416.368.3110
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PHOTO: Carla Huhtanen, Peter McGillivray & Keith Klassen (c) Michael Cooper, 2009.
Byron Lavoilette from EYE Weekly has reviewed The Shadow.
From EYE:
Taking inspiration from a dark, debt-collecting figure from Spanish history and a Carl Jung archetype based around the desires locked in our unconscious mind, The Shadow is lighter fare than it may first appear. A clever mix of comic opera and high melodrama, this humorous and heightened world premiere seems designed to be enjoyed by opera aficionados and lay-folk alike.
Read the full review here.
The Shadow runs until May 30 at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
416.368.3110
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The Toronto Star’s Richard Ouzounian sat down with librettist for The Shadow Alex Poch-Goldin to talk about his spring 2009 of world premieres.
From the Toronto Star:
One can’t help but feel that this summer might be the season when the talented Alex Poch-Goldin’s career finally blossoms the way it ought to.
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The Shadow premieres tonight May 21 and runs until May 30 at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
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Tom Diamond, Resident Director at Tapestry and director of the The Shadow took the Toronto Star’s Rita Zekas to St. Lawrence Market in Toronto during his weekly shopping ritual to chat about his career and Tapestry’s upcoming world premiere.
From the Toronto Star:
It’s 4 p.m. on Saturday, one hour before closing time at St. Lawrence Market, and Tom Diamond, director of The Shadow, is a man on a mission.
He’s here for the deep discounts.
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The Shadow premieres May 21-30, 2009 at the Berkeley Street Theatre, Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
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Photo: Tom Diamond (c) Meghan Hall, 2009
Click here to read the Jewish Tribune’s recent interview with the creative team behind The Shadow, librettist Alex Poch-Goldin and composer Omar Daniel.
From the Jewish Tribune:
Set in Barcelona during the early 20th century, The Shadow, as described by Poch-Goldin, is “a morality fable of being oneself and how one would like oneself to be better. The plot is about a postman who is in love with a wealthy girl. To win her he assumes a secondary identity. He wins her love but he finds out he cannot afford her. He borrows money to maintain his faÁade.”
Sounds familiar? See this opera for yourself. Poch-Goldin does say that this opera is a “tragic romance.”
As this opera is set in Barcelona, composer Omar Daniel said that his original score does have traditional Spanish undertones, complete with boleros and castanets. Beyond that, he creates his own styles without resorting to Spanish musical clichÈs. He does affirm that there are “recognizable tunes and harmonies. Those who associate modern music with unpleasant dissonances need not fear here. But his tunes are not shallow pop tunes.
“There are layers of depth in the score,” which one would not find on the pop charts, he said.
The Shadow premieres May 21-30, 2009 at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
416.368.3110
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We did a little photo shoot on Tuesday night in the Distillery District. Scott Belluz and Peter McGillivray were photographed by Meghan Hall in advance of the world premiere of The Shadow.
The Shadow premieres May 21-30, 2009 at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs.
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Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
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canstage.com
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Photo: Scott Belluz & Peter McGillivray (c) Meghan Hall, 2009.
Chris Hoile has devoted his May 2009 On Opera column in Wholenote Magazine to The Shadow and librettist/composer team Alex Poch-Goldin & Omar Daniel.
Read it here.
The Shadow premieres May 21-30, 2009 at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs.
Click here for more info.
Tickets
$20-$49
Box Office
416.368.3110
canstage.com
totix.ca
Watch the lovely Carla Huhtanen here as she is interviewed for TorontoStage.com at the Tapestry office in the Distillery District.
John Terauds has given Tapestry a rave for Opera to Go! Read his review here.
Only 3 more performances – buy tickets here or call 416.973.4000, or in person after 1pm at the Harbourfront Centre box office, 235 Queen’s Quay West.
$40 regular
$25 “birds eye view” seats (available by phone or in person only).
$20 students
$20 arts worker (available by phone or in person only).
Don’t be scared of the “birds eye view” seats on the side or even behind the stage. They are fun, and only $25!
Opera to Go runs at the Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre (231 Queen’s Quay West) tonight at 8pm, Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm.
Photo Credit: (L-R) Scott Belluz, Peter McGillivray, Keith Klassen & Kristina Szabo in One Lump or Two by Sandy Pool & Glenn James – part of Opera to Go 2009. (c) Michael Cooper, 2009.
