{"id":16702,"date":"2013-12-16T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=16702"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:15:10","slug":"opera-de-montreal-commissions-new-opera-based-on-lilies-for-2016-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/12\/16\/opera-de-montreal-commissions-new-opera-based-on-lilies-for-2016-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al commissions new opera based on Lilies for 2016 premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16703\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/carver.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16703\" alt=\"Brent carver in the movie version of Lilies, released in 2001.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/carver.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/carver.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/carver-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brent Carver in the movie version of <em>Lilies<\/em>, released in 1996.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard will adapt his hit 1987 play <em>Les Feluettes<\/em> (Lilies) for opera, thanks to a new Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al commission announced today. The premiere has been scheduled for May, 2016.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 1987 play about religious repression in early-1950s Quebec was made into a film by Torontonian John Greyson, starring Brent Carver, in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The composer for Bouchard&#8217;s operatic treatment is Melbourne, Australia-based, University of Michigan-educated American Kevin March, who has been making a name for himself in chamber opera Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>One of Bouchard&#8217;s more recent plays, <em>Christine, la reine-gar\u00e7on<\/em>, has been scheduled for an English-language performance as <em>The Girl-King<\/em> next summer at Stratford.<\/p>\n<p>Like the Canadian Opera Company, the much smaller and financially fragile Op\u00e9ra de Montreal does not have an ongoing opera-development programme. <em>Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Raquin<\/em> was co-commissioned with Dallas and San Diego Operas and premiered in November, 2001. Its librettist (Gene Scheer) and composer (Tobias Picker) are both American. The previous commission was <em>Nelligan<\/em>, a sort of pop-opera composed by Quebecer Andr\u00e9 Gagnon in 1990 and revived with substantial changes by Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Building on the strengths of Michel Marc Bouchard\u2019s libretto and Kevin March\u2019s music, our company, through this world premiere, will play a part in the rebirth our art form is enjoying at the dawn of the 21st century,\u201d said Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al artistic director Michel Beaulac in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al will eventually provide more details on its website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.operademontreal.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard will adapt his hit 1987 play Les Feluettes (Lilies) for opera, thanks to a new Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al commission announced today. The premiere has been scheduled for May, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,36,39,43,62],"tags":[119,4304,4301,4300,4302,2265,6467,4303],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/carver.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-4lo","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16702\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16702"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}