Tapestry Opera’s Field Live shows are again for Summer time 2025. The opera firm will come to your road with a live performance in a field (aka a stage on wheels with one gifted performer) to entertain the hood.
For the final 4 years, Tapestry Opera has staged greater than 300 pop-up Field Live shows with an viewers of greater than 5,000 all through town.
The concert events sometimes come at a value of $500, however this 12 months, Tapestry has provide you with a approach so that you can get pleasure from a Field Live performance for gratis.
The Particulars
Performances are about half-hour lengthy, and might happen at a non-public residence, neighborhood hub, or senior house within the Metropolis of Toronto.
Restricted dates can be found between August 12 and September 13, 2025.
Expertise
The inventive workforce contains Rachel Forbes (Field Design), Benton Roark (Manufacturing Coordinator), and Tristan Zaba (Manufacturing Coordinator). There are 4 performers for 2025.
Natalya Gennadi
Ukrainian-Canadian soprano Natalya Gennadi is a flexible performer with a large ranging repertoire. She first gained public acclaim — and a Dora Award nomination — after entering into the title function of Tapestry Opera’s Oksana G on quick discover. She has carried out with Voicebox:Opera in Live performance, Pacific Opera Victoria, and in up to date roles with Toronto’s Slowrise Music. In 2025, she’s sung the function of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Stratford Orchestra, and took on the soprano solo in Verdi’s Requiem with the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, Orpheus Choir of Toronto, and Resound Choir.
Mishael Eusebio
Filipino-Canadian tenor Mishael Eusebio relies in each Montréal and Toronto. His repertoire contains each conventional and up to date roles, and he’s labored with L’Opéra de Montréal, Houston Grand Opera co., Cincinnati Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Banff Opera Centre, Opera on the Avalon, Tapestry Opera, L’orchestre symphonique de Laval, Musique 3 Femmes, and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, amongst others. A graduate of The Juilliard College, Cincinnati Faculty-Conservatory of Music and L’atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, he was a winner of the 2023 Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques.
Alex Hetherington
Mezzo-soprano Alex Hetherington is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Firm’s Ensemble Studio, and carried out the function of Siebel within the Canadian Opera Firm’s manufacturing of Faust within the 2024/25 season. She has additionally carried out with Vancouver Opera, Ottawa Chamberfest, Mandle Philharmonic, Refrain Niagara, Tapestry Opera, and a wide range of different roles on the COC. She carried out with the Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra in 2022, which sparked a variety of performances with the ensemble, together with the premiere of Cecilia Livingston’s orchestral preparations of lieder picks by Clara Schumann, led by Maestro Alexander Shelley. Alex holds a Bachelor’s in Voice Efficiency and a Grasp’s in Opera Efficiency from the College of Toronto.
Keith Klassen
Tenor Keith Klassen is a graduate of the College of Toronto Opera Division, and has gone on to carry out greater than 100 roles throughout North America, Scotland, Eire, Germany, the Czech Republic, and within the Bahamas. He’s averaged a few dozen roles annually since graduating in 2002, and has been lauded for his dramatic in addition to his vocal talents in a variety of roles. Keith can be a filmmaker who focuses on quick movies that usually have an operatic overlap.
Tenor Asitha Tennekoon performs a Field Live performance in 2021:
What You Have To Do
There are some things you’ll have to do in your finish.
- Make sure you’ve obtained the house for the moveable field stage, with an accessible electrical outlet;
- Get a minimum of 20 buddies and neighbours collectively;
- Assist to advertise the live performance in your road or in your constructing with flyers or on-line.
That’s it. Your neighbourhood will thanks.
- You’ll find the Reserving Data Sheet [HERE].
- Get began by filling out the shape together with your most popular date and different particulars [HERE] and Tapestry will contact you to make it occur.
With a donation of $350, you can even sponsor a live performance for a care facility, retirement house, or neighbourhood affiliation. Extra info right here.
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 a long time, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
