Music Week in the Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace

Tapestry New Opera Presents: Opera Briefs - supported by RBC Emerging Artists Project and Roger D. Moore – September 23rd and 24th 2011

Fun, thrilling, surprising and touching always provocative and sometimes too hot to handle!  Opera Briefs brings you five minute bite-sized operas that are delicious enough to share.  Brought to you hot off the press from Tapestrys Composer-Librettist Laboratory - a boot-camp for selected writers and composers.  Join with our audiences of 16 years of breathtaking performance and transcend yourself into new worlds of original creative music drama. An intimate and entertaining night out.       Generously supported by the RBC Emerging Artists Project.
   
Writers   Sharon Bajer   Nick Carpenter   Sheldon Rosen   Anusree Roy   Norman Yeung Composers   Elisabeth Mehl Greene   Katya Pine   Darren Russo   Jana Skarecky   Christiaan Venter    
Singers   Xin Wang, soprano   Krisztina Szabo, mezzo soprano   Keith Klassen, tenor   Benjamin Covey, baritone    
Répétiteurs   Christopher Foley   Jennifer Tung
Stage Director   Sue Miner

Kevin Fox with Special Guest Evalyn Parry

*Concert Postponed. Stay tuned for further details*

Kevin Fox kicks off a cross-Canada tour this month. If you have come in contact with Canadian music at all over the last number of years, chances are you have either seen or heard the work of Halifax native Kevin Fox.   Kevins abilities as an instrumentalist, composer/arranger and recording artist have offered him the opportunity to record and tour with countless artists, from Justin Bieberand Olivia Newton John to Steven Page and Chantal Kreviazuk. However it is Kevins talents as a singer/songwriter in his own right that has been causing his fan base to grow like wildfire since the release of his first album, COME ALIVE to the critically acclaimed SONGS FOR CELLO & VOICE and now with his much-anticipated third release, SET RIGHT.  Dubbed a cellist and guitarist of rare talent with a voice that soars like an angel (Toronto Star), Kevin has been captivating audiences across Canada with his unique musical tapestry of cello-driven pop songs.  Whether skillfully performing on his signature instrument, which he plucks, taps and loops, or with his guitar, whether playing solo or with his band, an evening with Kevin Fox is not to be missed and never to be forgotten. Innovative Canadian songwriter, poet and theatre artist evalyn parry will play selections from her modern concept record SPIN featuring the bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change,