For Tapestry Opera, 2025/26 would be the first full season of efficiency for the Toronto firm within the Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre. Along with the brand new downtown venue, the season features a outstanding world premiere that takes place on the Bluma Appel Theatre.
The season of 4 exhibits contains two world premieres, a North American and a Canadian premiere, socially related themes, and acclaimed artists equivalent to Roydon Tse, Sarah Henstra, and Ana Sokolović, together with the work of the following gen of Canadian opera creators.
Tapestry Opera 2025/26 Season: At A Look
Tapestry Briefs: Beneath The place? (October 16–19, 2025) Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre
Tapestry Briefs: Beneath The place? Presents ten newly minted opera shorts that take audiences on a whirlwind journey. The wokrs of 9 creators is featured, together with: composers Rebecca Grey, Saman Shahi, Roydon Tse, Keith Klassen, and Prokhor Protasoff, together with librettists Rachel Grey, Sarah Henstra, Pierre-André Doucet, and Christene Adina Browne.
Themes embody a romantic duet between a sponge and a yogurt container, a lady making an attempt to eat alone, and a mom with Alzheimer’s. Tapestry Briefs has a historical past of launching productions that go on to better successes, together with The Overcoat, R.U.R. A Torrent of Gentle and Of the Sea.
Directed by Michael Hidetoshi Mori and Mabel Wonnecot, with music route by Hyejin Kwon and Gregory Oh, the manufacturing stars Reilly Nelson, Adanya Dunn, Keith Klassen, and Jorell Williams.
LOL: Laughing Out Lonely (January 16 & 17, 2026) Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre
LOL: Laughing Out Lonely is a solo opera from the groundbreaking Danish firm OPE-N, and might be carried out as its North American premiere. The up to date opera was created by Matilde Böcher and Asger Kudahl as an examination of the inherent loneliness of our digital age. Opera blends with bodily theatre on this distinctive work.
The piece is predicated on actual social media posts, and delves into the extra obscure areas of the web, and the sense of group, nevertheless excessive, that marginalized folks discover there. Countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen performs a dynamic vary of on-line personas, from “The Fucking Ugly Face” to “The Lamb”, giving voice to views which might be typically hidden.
Ana Sokolović’s Love Songs (March 26–29, 2026) Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre
With theatrical adaptation and staging by Michael Hidetoshi Mori, this world premiere efficiency blends opera, dance, and ritual within the journey of a lady coping with loss. Soprano Xin Wang sings the songs of Ana Sokolović in 5 languages, with declarations of affection in additional than 100.
The manufacturing is a co-presentation with New Music Concert events.
Title of Opera (to be introduced…) (June 16–21, 2026) Bluma Appel Theatre
A Canadian playwright and an acclaimed composer, each recognized to Tapestry audiences, created the award-winning opera that might be carried out — the title to be introduced later. The manufacturing will function an orchestra, refrain, and soloists.
- Discover extra particulars and tickets for Tapestry Opera’s 2025/26 season [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 many years, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
