{"id":74228,"date":"2022-02-28T08:36:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=74228"},"modified":"2022-02-28T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:36:46","slug":"canadian-opera-company-fantasma","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/canadian-opera-company-fantasma\/2022-03-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Opera Company | Fantasma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WORLD PREMIERE<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<em>Recommended for young adults (12-18 years old)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While visiting a boisterous, old-fashioned carnival, best friends L\u00e9a and Ivy stumble upon a dark secret. Their ghostly discovery makes them confront an age-old dilemma: when faced with another person\u2019s suffering, do you turn away, or try to help?<\/p>\n<p>This new opera, by former COC Composer-in-Residence\u00a0<strong>Ian Cusson<\/strong>\u00a0with libretto by acclaimed playwright\u00a0<strong>Colleen Murphy<\/strong>, explores themes of death, violence, compassion and the courage to insist on being heard.<\/p>\n<p>Former COC Director\/Dramaturg-in-Residence\u00a0<strong>Julie McIsaac<\/strong>\u00a0joins the creative team as director and dramaturg, along with a number of current and graduate\u00a0<strong>Ensemble Studio<\/strong>\u00a0artists cast in leading roles; these include: sopranos\u00a0<strong>Jamie Groote<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Midori Marsh<\/strong>\u00a0as L\u00e9a and Ivy; tenor\u00a0<strong>Owen McCausland<\/strong>\u00a0as the carnival worker Emile; and soprano\u00a0<strong>Charlotte Siegel\u00a0<\/strong>in the role of L\u00e9a\u2019s mother Manon. Set design and costumes from\u00a0<strong>Camellia Koo<\/strong>, executed by Design Co-ordinator\u00a0<strong>Jung-Hye Kim<\/strong>, and lighting by\u00a0<strong>Mikael Kangas<\/strong>\u00a0infuse the atmosphere with whimsy, nostalgia, and mystery in this haunting, contemporary ghost story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WORLD PREMIERE Recommended for young adults (12-18 years old) While visiting a boisterous, old-fashioned carnival, best friends L\u00e9a and Ivy stumble upon a dark secret. Their ghostly discovery makes them confront an age-old dilemma: when faced with another person\u2019s suffering, do you turn away, or try to help? This new opera, by former COC Composer-in-Residence\u00a0Ian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5327,4992],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/74228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/74228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74230,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/74228\/revisions\/74230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74228"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=74228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}