The Magic Flute Aug 8, 7:30pm; Aug 10, 2pm Sir James Dunn Theatre 6101 University Avenue $20 W hen Nina Scott-Stoddart, artistic director of the Halifax Summer Opera Festival, steps into the spotlight to introduce The Magic Flute, she tactfully draws our attention to both the beauty of the music and the antiquated libretto. She […]
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Ghost Tango’s political timbre
Ghost Tango September 16-19, 8pm Sir James Dunn Theatre 6101 University Avenue $25 Bradyworks and Vocalypse’s latest joint production, Ghost Tango, tells the story of a Canadian woman facing a moral dilemma–whether to forgive or exact revenge on the man who tortured her during Argentina’s Dirty War after fate finds them run aground on a […]
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The Halifax Summer Opera Festival is here and its queer
“Opera is, by its very nature, queer as hell,” says Nina Scott-Stoddart, the artistic director of the Halifax Summer Opera Festival. “For the company itself, we’re always rehearsing during Pride weekend and finally we got sick of trying to sneak off to the parade and other events, so this year we scheduled the whole festival […]
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Lukas Pearse goes on the record
It’s a contemporary question with deep historical roots. Is technology “better for music or does it take the soul out of the music?” asks vocalist Janice Jackson on the phone before a rehearsal of Vonda De Ville in Temporal Follies—An Electropera, a piece created for her by Lukas Pearse. The hour-long work will be performed […]
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Opera Excerpts a crowd pleaser
If you’re not sure that opera’s really your thing, I can’t think of a better way to whet your appetite than Halifax Summer Opera Workshop’s Opera Excerpts. The program, which takes pieces from different types of opera from baroque to modern, has something to please almost everyone. Some things, such as the Green-Acres-esque marital misunderstanding […]