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Program Notes: Airline Icarus

Program Notes

Airline Icarus was commissioned by a small Vancouver opera company, Opera Breve, in 2001. Soundstreams’ Artistic Director, Lawrence Cherney, was among those who witnessed the project’s first public workshop. The… Read More

Artist Q&A: Krisztina Szabó

Artist Spotlight

Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó has become highly sought after in both North America and Europe as an artist of supreme musicianship and stagecraft. Soundstreams is thrilled to be working with… Read More

Behind the Scenes: Juliet Palmer’s Sweat

Behind the Scenes

Sweat takes place in a contemporary sweatshop, the multilingual libretto conveying the global nature of the garment industry. Departing radically from traditional opera, this piece sheds the orchestra and focuses… Read More

Q&A with Anton Piatigorsky

Artist Spotlight

Anton Piatigorsky is an award-winning writer of fiction, plays and librettos. As a playwright, he is the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore awards for best new play, the Summerworks… Read More

Airline Icarus, a new opera: Inspiration & History

Behind the Scenes

Airline Icarus is about the intersecting thoughts of passengers aboard a commercial airplane. It explores themes of hubris mixed with technology, the forced intimacy of strangers and flying too close… Read More

Salon Thoughts: Audience and the New Development Process

Behind the Scenes

In November, we will spend a week developing Juliet Palmer’s opera Sweat and in June we will present a fully staged version of Brian Current’s Airline Icarus at the Daniels… Read More

Storytelling through Music: A Discussion on Musical Theatre with Mitchell Marcus

Community Engagement and Outreach

Kyle Brenders: I have a tendency to think of musicals as Fosse and Broadway but I have a feeling this isn’t what Acting Up Stage produces. Could you tell us… Read More