Tapestry Opera has announced it’s 2016–17 season with two operas and the return of the popular Tapestry Songbook series. For a company known for its varied and courageous programming, this season tackles some very heavy subjects, including Japanese-Canadian internment camps and human trafficking in the sex trade.

Now in their 37-season season, Toronto’s original indie opera company begins with Naomi’s Road, a work based on the tragic Japanese-Canadian internment camps in the BC interior and Alberta during WWII. The opera is adapted from a novel by Joy Kogawa by librettist and director Ann Hodges and acclaimed composer Ramona Luengen. It runs from Nov. 16 – 20, 2016, at St. David’s Anglican Church, the fitting home of the last Japanese-Canadian Anglican parish in Toronto.

Tapestry Songbook­ returns in February for selection of plumbs from the Tapestry catalogue with mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó on Feb. 23 and 24, at Tapestry’s Ernest Balmer Studio in the heart of the Distillery District.

The final and biggest show of their season is the premiere of Oksana G, which follows the story of Oksana, a young Ukrainian woman lured into the world of sex trafficking by a recruiter who unexpectedly falls in love with her. With music composed by Aaron Gervais, and text by award-winning playwright Colleen Murphy, Tapestry Opera’s Artistic Director Michael Mori calls it a remarkable journey, “defined by loss, survival, perseverance, and ultimately, the rediscovery of self and strength in the face of the incredible evils of racism and human trafficking.”

Oksana G will be staged by director Tom Diamond and conducted by Jordan de Souza, now with Komische Oper Berlin. Oksana G. runs from May 24 – 30, 2017, at the Imperial Oil Opera Theatre of the Canadian Opera Company.

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