Tapestry Opera has announced its first full season since leaving the Distillery District and it looks like “back to the future”.  Most of the usual (much missed) stuff is there.  So here’s the line up:

• October 16th-19th – Tapestry Briefs: Under Where? – Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre.  Briefs is back with a new line up of composers and librettists including, I’m delighted to say, the Gray sisters.  Basically this is the performance end of the LibLab where we get to see the best of what the workshops produced.  Always worth seeing.
• January 16th and 17th – LOL: Laughing Out Lonely – Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre.  This is a solo opera by the Danish company OPE-N.  Created by Matilde Böcher and Asger Kudahl and starring Morten Grove Frandsen inhabiting multiple on-line personas, it explores the darker side of social media.
• March 26th – 29th – Ana Sokolović’s Love Songs – Nancy & Ed Jackman Performance Centre.  Soprano Xin Wang takes us on a muklti-lingual journey through love and loss in a version of the Sokolovic work adapted for the stage by Michael Hidetoshi Mori.
• June 16th – 21st – Super Sekret Opera – Bluma Appel Theatre.  This yet to be announced opera will be fully staged with orchestra and chorus.  All I can tell you is that is “the creation of a Canadian playwright you already admire and a composer the New York Times has hailed as one of the most important voices of our time”.

Welcome back Tapestry!