Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, directed by Michael Mori. Photo: Townsend Opera
Michael Mori has been in the arts for more than 20 years, which is a pretty big accomplishment when you are only 33. The newly appointed artistic director of Tapestry Opera, a company devoted to developing and presenting new operas, is using his vast and varied experience to shake things up a bit..
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It’s an Aladdin story for modern times – a bottle with a genie inside, ready to grant wishes and fulfill infinite desire. But with a catch. Die in possession of this treasure and you are damned straight to hell.
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Tapestry Opera and members of F--ked Up join forces...
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I met with Michael Mori of Tapestry Opera on Friday ostensibly to talk about their upcoming season but, as these things tend to, we covered a lot more ground than that.
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Tapestry Opera has a wonderful new production to close off its 2015-16 season. Composer Gareth Williams and librettist Anna Chatterton’s Rocking Horse Winner is a taut, dramatic and well-performed adaptation of the famous D. H. Lawrence short story.
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Even in an operatically well-endowed city like Toronto, it’s rare to experience a production where everything comes together as neatly and powerfully as in Rocking Horse Winner.
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Where to start in my praise of the tour de force performance Saturday night of Fresno Grand Opera’s “Dead Man Walking”?
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But transformed into The Devil Inside, a chamber opera performed by Toronto’s Tapestry Opera, Stevenson’s tale has become as modern morality play about the nature of greed, love, death, friendship and desire. It’s become, simply, a great yarn, effectively told in music and text.
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The opera bells were ringing Thursday night, for what might become Tapestry’s finest production since artistic director Michael Mori took the helm in 2014.
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And thanks to Michael Mori and his Tapestry Opera group, Falco and Haliechuk’s secret is now public knowledge.
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And that’’s what makes Tapestry Opera and Tap:EX Tables Turned great, because they give a glimpse as to what opera can offer us in our multimedia savvy world, and what we’re missing out when we ignored it.
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What do punk and opera have in common? "There are people out there who think both genres are dead," says Fucked Up drummer Jonah Falco...
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Michael Mori, artistic director of Toronto's Tapestry Opera, is determined to make opera that's topical as well as fresh.
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Much as we complain, or I complain, Toronto is not a bad city for opera. Two professional companies, music schools with high standards, but also some alternative downtown activity from the likes of Tapestry.
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