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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