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Dark Star Requiem Music Workshop Photos

Tapestry — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:28:56 +0000

Check out more great photos from Brian Mosoff, this time from the February 2010 music workshop for Dark Star Requiem in the Ernest Balmer Studio at Tapestry.

Dark Star Requiem
A world premiere from Tapestry & Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity
Composed by Andrew Staniland
Libretto by Jill Battson

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

Call for Applications: Tapestry 2010 LibLab

Tapestry — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:54:49 +0000

Tapestry’s 2010 Composer-Librettist Laboratory is scheduled for August 23 – September 3 in Toronto and we are looking for eligible writer and composers.

Click here for more info. on submission criteria.

Deadline for Applications is May 30, 2010.

For most composers and writers the artistic process is a solitary one. Producers around the world agree that forming workable artistic partnerships between composers and playwrights is the single greatest challenge facing the development of new opera and music theatre. The Composer-Librettist Laboratory is Tapestry’s response to this challenge. Initiated in 1995, the laboratory is an intensive one-week workshop for composers and writers to explore the collaborative process.

What a music workshop looks like.

Tapestry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:55:50 +0000

For a couple of snowy weeks this January a bunch of fantastic artists were hard at work in the Ernest Balmer Studio at Tapestry participating in the final music workshop for the short operas for Opera to Go 2009. Writers and composers have a chance to work with the director, music director, repetiteur and singing actors and to make final adjustments to the score. The director and designers have a chance to hear the music and see the performers and advance their own visions prior to the rehearsal period.

Click here to learn more about this year’s production which has its world premiere in late March at the Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre. You can buy tickets here.

The reason for this Blog, beyond sharing news and pictures with everyone is to show a glimpse of everything that happens behind the scenes at Tapestry. As a company dedicated to new work, we spend a lot of time developing operas. So we might not have a production up in the theatre, but we almost always have something going on in the studio. this year we invited photographer Meghan Hall into the studio and here is a glimpse of some great Tapestry artists at work.

Just click on the photo to advance the slide.

Artists Pictured: Scott Belluz, Catharin Carew, Sally Dibblee, Keith Klassen, Peter McGillivray, Christopher Foley, Tom Diamond, Wayne Strongman, Isolde Pleasants-Faulkner, Julia Tribe, Alexis Diamond, Taylor Graham, Marcia Johnson, Glenn James, Abigail Richardson, William Rowson, Stephen Andrew Taylor. All photos (c) Meghan Hall 2009.

Get Stuffed Workshop

Tapestry — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:52:40 +0000

On Friday June 27th Tapestry had a workshop presentation of Get Stuffed. Having worked with Emma Tibaldo all week to stage the opera and develop the movement and relationships of the characters, the cast presented this work in progress to a small audience. Below are some pictures of the presentation. Just click on the photograph to advance the slide.

For more information about Get Stuffed click here to visit our Works in Development page.

Librettist- Alexis Diamond
Composer – Richard Payne
Stage Director – Emma Tiblado
Music Director – Wayne Strongman
Repetiteur – James Bourne

Cast
Alex Dobson
Carla Huhtanen
Justin Welsh
Cory Knight
Lauren Phillips

Shelter Workshop

Tapestry — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:32:47 +0000

On Saturday June 21st there was a workshop presentation of Shelter, by Julie Salverson and Juliet Palmer. The participants, listed below shared the work they had been doing all week with an audience and engaged in a talkback about the opera afterwards. For this particular presentation of Shelter Tapestry is grateful to the Department of Canadian Heritage who supported the presentation through their “Celebrate Canada Program” on National Aboriginal Day. For those of you who missed the presentation, there is a slideshow of pictures below. Just click on the photograph to advance the slide.

For more information about Shelter you can click here to visit our Works in Development page.

Librettist – Julie Salverson
Composer – Juliet Palmer
Music Director – Wayne Strongman
Stage Director – Keith Turnbull
Repetiteur – Stephanie Chua
Clown Consultant – Charlotte Gowdy

Cast
Alexander Dobson
Christine Duncan
Deborah Overes
Carla Huhtanten
James McLennan

Orchestra
Stephanie Chua (piano)
Ryan Scott (percussion)
Parmella Attariwalla (violin)
Peter Pavlovsky (double bass/electric bass)
Colleen Cook (Clarinet/Bass Clarinet)
Rob MacDonald (Guitar)

Workshop Process

Tapestry — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:15:55 +0000

Tapestry New Work Studio Company Member has written a great article about the Tapestry workshop process for Take a Friend To Orchestra 2008, an audience-building initiative presented in conjunction with Drew McManus’ Adaptistration. Check it out.