Announcing the 2016 Open Space Participants
We are pleased to announce that 15 young professionals have been invited to Open Space: Opera in the 21st Century program to perform Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and a new 'Mozart Mashup' work by Against The Grain. The 13 singers, plus an assistant repetiteur and assistant stage director will be joined by a 13-member orchestra to bring these works to life.
See the gallery below for profiles on this year's singers.
Singers
Adanya Dunn
Anna Theodosakis
Beste Kalender
Caitlin Wood
Chelsea Rus
David Diston
Ellen McAteer
Emma Char
Iain MacNeil
Jasper Leever
Maria Fuller
Owen McCausland
Peter Rolfe Dauz
Stephanie Hradsky
Tonatiuh Abrego
Vanessa Oude-Reimerink
2015's A Little Too Cozy cast updates
A Little Too Cozy
An original production by Against the Grain's Joel Ivany, based on Mozart's opera Così fan tutte
Completing a trio of Mozart “transladaptations” by Against the Grain, this inventive update of Così fan tutte, with a new English libretto by Joel Ivany, presents the comedy of manners as a modern-day wedding reality TV show in CBC Toronto’s Studio 42. A Little Too Cozy was workshopped at Banff Centre in July 2015 as part of the program “Open Space: Opera in the 21st Century” before making its Toronto debut this May 2016.
