Elijah's Kite on Tour
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Tapestry will tour Elijah's Kite to over 20,000 children in the 2007-2008 season with a two-part tour to Ontario schools and community centres.
Fall Tour: October 15 - November 2, 2007
Spring Tour: April 7 - 25, 2008
Written with tenderness and humour by Camyar Chai (librettist) and James Rolfe (composer), Elijah's Kite is a particpatory opera created especially for children with a goal of promoting healthy relationships and the prevention of bullying. Tapestry has partnered with PREVNet to create a comprehensive study guide to accompany the performance.
If you are interested in booking Elijah's Kite in your school or community centre please contact
Prologue to the Performing Arts at 1.888.591.9092
Click here or more information on the history of Elijah's Kite or to download the study guide.
Opera offers our students a rare exposure to an art form that has an extensive history in Western Culture as a higher aesthetic expression. With live opera, students are able to experience a very different emotional response to the combination of excellent singing, powerful orchestrations, visual feasts of sets and costumes, and an appreciation for a story being communicated in new ways not common to today's child. Opera can often be a reflection of social and political conditions as well as human nature.
...Dale Taylor, Arts Consultant,
Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Elijah's Kite Company
Michael Clipperton stage director
Susan Suchard music director
Julia Tribe stage designer
Fiona Jones stage manager
Featuring:
Neema Bickersteth as Keisha
Jessica Lloyd as Nikki
James McLennan as Elijah
Calvin Powell as Big Billy Brett
Jennifer Rasor as Miriam
Lizzie Lavado on piano
David Peters on percussion
Louis Simão on bass