June 2019
Luminato Festival | KIRA: The Path/La Voie
KIRA, The Path | La Voie celebrates humanity as one village and its sacred bond to nature. It features a dynamic cast of dancers and percussionists whose evocative chants and powerful drum beats invoke Mother Earth's wisdom and echo her auspicious warning: the invisible cord that links us to her is wasting away. The interpreters are guided by the voices of our ancestors - the guardians of our moral code and spiritual guides. Choreographer and composer Fara Tolno is one of…
Find out more »Luminato Festival | Obeah Opera
Obeah Opera is a hand-clapping, foot-stomping, spirit-lifting, musical sensation. Steeped in Black music and sung entirely a cappella by a powerful all-female cast, Obeah Opera tells the story of the legendary Salem witch trials from the spellbinding perspective of the first woman accused, the young Caribbean slave Tituba. In February 1692 the people of Salem, Massachusetts fell into a mass hysteria and paranoid state, which resulted in a massive witch hunt. Hundreds of people were arrested and tried for witchcraft, and over the…
Find out more »June 2022
Toronto City Opera | Cavalleria Rusticana
The love, betrayal and revenge of real people stretched to the limits of human feeling by real life. Intense and beautiful music. Great pathos and dramatic tension flow from Mascagni’s achingly beautiful score in this quintessential verismo opera about the fateful events that take place on an Easter Sunday under the Sicilian sun. After Turiddu returns from the military to find betrayal, hot-blooded pursuits of love and jealousy spread, leading to the point of no return with inescapable acts of…
Find out more »Toronto City Opera | Cavalleria Rusticana
The love, betrayal and revenge of real people stretched to the limits of human feeling by real life. Intense and beautiful music. Great pathos and dramatic tension flow from Mascagni’s achingly beautiful score in this quintessential verismo opera about the fateful events that take place on an Easter Sunday under the Sicilian sun. After Turiddu returns from the military to find betrayal, hot-blooded pursuits of love and jealousy spread, leading to the point of no return with inescapable acts of…
Find out more »Toronto City Opera | Cavalleria Rusticana
The love, betrayal and revenge of real people stretched to the limits of human feeling by real life. Intense and beautiful music. Great pathos and dramatic tension flow from Mascagni’s achingly beautiful score in this quintessential verismo opera about the fateful events that take place on an Easter Sunday under the Sicilian sun. After Turiddu returns from the military to find betrayal, hot-blooded pursuits of love and jealousy spread, leading to the point of no return with inescapable acts of…
Find out more »March 2023
Against the Grain Theatre | Bluebeard’s Castle
Our second show of this season will be a contemporary retelling of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, starring Canadian operatic superstars Gerald Finley and Adrianne Pieczonka.
Find out more »Against the Grain Theatre | Bluebeard’s Castle
Our second show of this season will be a contemporary retelling of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, starring Canadian operatic superstars Gerald Finley and Adrianne Pieczonka.
Find out more »April 2023
Against the Grain Theatre | Bluebeard’s Castle
Our second show of this season will be a contemporary retelling of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók, starring Canadian operatic superstars Gerald Finley and Adrianne Pieczonka.
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