{"id":19898,"date":"2014-07-26T10:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2014-07-26T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:40:21","slug":"video-daniel-macivor-discusses-rufus-wainwrights-upcoming-coc-commission-hadrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2014\/07\/26\/video-daniel-macivor-discusses-rufus-wainwrights-upcoming-coc-commission-hadrian\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Daniel MacIvor discusses Rufus Wainwright&#8217;s upcoming COC commission Hadrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19899\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/danielmacivor.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/danielmacivor.jpeg\" alt=\"Playwright, actor, theatre director, and film director Daniel MacIvor\" width=\"545\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/danielmacivor.jpeg 545w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/danielmacivor-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playwright, actor, theatre director, and film director Daniel MacIvor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is no secret there are a number of misgivings over the controversial commissioning of Rufus Wainwright&#8217;s upcoming opera <em>Hadrian<\/em>, slated for the 2018\/19 Canadian Opera Company season.<\/p>\n<p>Readers might recall Musical Toronto\u2019s John Terauds aptly expressing those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2013\/11\/30\/comment-how-do-we-scale-the-wall-of-misguided-thinking-behind-canadian-opera-companys-hadrian\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The comments section is also\u00a0an interesting read in itself.<\/p>\n<p>But thus far we haven\u2019t heard much from Daniel MacIvor, the playwright-performer writing the libretto for the new work.<\/p>\n<p>This week Jenna Douglas, from the opera blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/atg.schmopera.com\/daniel-macivor-a-playwright-talks-opera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schmopera<\/a>, caught up with Daniel MacIvor at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/programs\/program.aspx?id=1457\" target=\"_blank\">The Banff Centre<\/a>, to discuss his theatrical background, his search for the authentic, and his experience discovering the world of opera anew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZZf0Ma7nFo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Vincent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret there are a number of misgivings over the controversial commissioning of Rufus Wainwright&#8217;s upcoming opera Hadrian, slated for the 2018\/19 Canadian Opera Company season. Readers might recall Musical Toronto\u2019s John Terauds aptly expressing those here. The comments section is also\u00a0an interesting read in itself. But thus far we haven\u2019t heard much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117,29,30,43,66],"tags":[628,4230,4231,2896],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/danielmacivor.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-5aW","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19907,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions\/19907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}