{"id":118152,"date":"2025-10-06T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=118152"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:19:44","slug":"preview-tapestry-operas-25-26-season-will-first-new-toronto-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2025\/10\/06\/preview-tapestry-operas-25-26-season-will-first-new-toronto-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | Tapestry Opera\u2019s 25\/26 Season Will Be Their First In The New Toronto Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Librettist Anna Chatterton and Director Michael Mori on the set of Tapestry Opera\u2019s\u00a0Rocking Horse Winne (Photo: Dahlia Katz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Tapestry Opera, 2025\/26 will be the first full season of performance for the Toronto company in the Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre. In addition to the new downtown venue, the season includes a prominent world premiere that takes place at the Bluma Appel Theatre.<\/p>\n

The season of four shows includes two world premieres, a North American and a Canadian premiere, socially relevant themes, and acclaimed artists such as Roydon Tse, Sarah Henstra, and Ana Sokolovi\u0107, along with the work of the next gen of Canadian opera creators.<\/p>\n

Tapestry Opera 2025\/26 Season: At A Glance<\/h2>\n

Tapestry Briefs: Under Where? (October 16\u201319, 2025) Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tapestry Briefs: Under Where? Offers ten newly minted opera shorts that take audiences on a whirlwind journey. The wokrs of nine creators is featured, including: composers Rebecca Gray, Saman Shahi, Roydon Tse, Keith Klassen, and Prokhor Protasoff, along with librettists Rachel Gray, Sarah Henstra, Pierre-Andr\u00e9 Doucet, and Christene Adina Browne.<\/p>\n

Themes include a romantic duet between a sponge and a yogurt container, a woman trying to eat alone, and a mother with Alzheimer\u2019s. Tapestry Briefs has a history of launching productions that go on to greater successes, including The Overcoat, R.U.R. A Torrent of Light and Of the Sea.<\/p>\n

Directed by Michael Hidetoshi Mori and Mabel Wonnecot, with music direction by Hyejin Kwon and Gregory Oh, the production stars Reilly Nelson, Adanya Dunn, Keith Klassen, and Jorell Williams.<\/p>\n

\u200aLOL: Laughing Out Lonely (January 16 & 17, 2026) Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

LOL: Laughing Out Lonely is a solo opera from the groundbreaking Danish company OPE-N, and will be performed as its North American premiere. The contemporary opera was created by Matilde B\u00f6cher and Asger Kudahl as an examination of the inherent loneliness of our digital age. Opera blends with physical theatre in this unique work.<\/p>\n

The piece is based on real social media posts, and delves into the more obscure areas of the internet, and the sense of community, however extreme, that marginalized people find there. Countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen performs a dynamic range of online personas, from \u201cThe Fucking Ugly Face\u201d to \u201cThe Lamb\u201d, giving voice to perspectives that are often hidden.<\/p>\n

\u200aAna Sokolovi\u0107\u2019s Love Songs (March 26\u201329, 2026) Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n

With theatrical adaptation and staging by Michael Hidetoshi Mori, this world premiere performance blends opera, dance, and ritual in the journey of a woman dealing with loss. Soprano Xin Wang sings the songs of Ana Sokolovi\u0107 in five languages, with declarations of love in more than 100.<\/p>\n

The production is a co-presentation with New Music Concerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u200aTitle of Opera (to be announced…) (June 16\u201321, 2026) Bluma Appel Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Canadian playwright and an acclaimed composer, both known to Tapestry audiences, created the award-winning opera that will be performed \u2014 the title to be announced later. The production will feature an orchestra, chorus, and soloists.<\/p>\n