The Tapestry Song Book January 28, 2012

“…the best executions of new music you can find anywhere in the world.” John Terauds, Toronto Star

Tapestry announces their second year of The Tapestry Songbook!

The Tapestry Song Book
January 2012
Performed by artists from the Tapestry New Work Studio Company and participants from Tapestry’s New Opera 101 Master Class/Workshop
Tapestry New Opera’s, annual New Opera 101 master class for singer-pianist duos will culminate in a concert of memorable arias from Tapestry’s new opera library – The Tapestry Songbook .
Artistic Statement:
“As the centre of new opera creation in Canada, Tapestry houses the largest archive of original arias from Canadian creators. Last season, in a pilot project, we offered a limited collection of arias from our archives to student singer/ accompanist teams enrolled in opera programmes at university level across the province, to attend a Masterclass at Tapestry with Studio Company Members who had premiered the works, as well as Studio Company Director Tom Diamond, Musical Director Wayne Strongman, and Principal Repetiteur Dr. Christopher Foley. The response was overwhelming, both from the students and their teachers, and from the audience to the closing recital, who saw this legacy being passed on to future generations. We are now poised to publish the Tapestry Songbook, an archive for university opera studios around the world.”

DETAILS

January 28th, 2012 at 8pm

The Ernest Balmer Studio, Distillery District
55 Mill St., Building 58, Studio 315
Toronto, ON M5A 3C4

TICKETS

Price- $25
416-537-6066 x243/tapestrynewopera.com

Studio Passes on Sale Now for Tapestry's 2011/12
Creative Development Season!
Join us as a Studio Pass holder and enjoy access to five performances and Studio Pass benefits through-out the season. 


2011/12 Studio Pass: $115 (HST included.)
To purchase your Studio Pass, please call us at (416) 537-6066 x 222 or e-mail your request to [email protected] and you will be contacted within one business day.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Tapestry New Opera is an international home for new work creation, development and performance through its unique and highly collaborative work process. Under the leadership of Managing Artistic Director Wayne Strongman, CM, Tapestry engages the hearts and minds of artists and audiences, using opera to tell the stories that need to be told. The Tapestry process begins at the annual Composer-Librettist Laboratory where writers and composers are introduced to collaborative creation. Successful partnerships move on to create 15-minute operas for our regular Opera to Go productions and graduate to full-length works. Our INside Opera Education Programme gives students the chance to discover their own stories and engage in the creation of new opera. Our children’s operas, Elijah’s Kite by Camyar Chai & James Rolfe and Get Stuffed by Alexis Diamond and Richard Payne have already toured to over 30,000 students across Ontario. Tapestry productions which have premiered to critical and popular acclaim include Dark Star Requiem by Jill Battson & Andrew Staniland (with the Gryphon Trio and Elmer Iseler Singers) and the Dora-Award winning Sanctuary Song by Abigail Richardson & Marjorie Chan (with Theatre Direct), both for Luminato, The Shadow by Alex Poch-Goldin & Omar Daniel, Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald & Nic Gotham, Elsewhereless by Atom Egoyan & Rodney Sharman, Still the Night by Theresa Tova, Facing South by Don Hannah & Linda C. Smith and the Dora Award-winning Iron Road by composer Chan Ka Nin & librettist Mark Brownell.

We have simplified our name to Tapestry New Opera. Please refer to our domain name www.tapestrynewopera.com in case of confusion.

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For further media information and artist interviews please contact Kim Blackwell at
416-346-4709, 416-686-0982 or [email protected]