About TCOP
With a mandate to perform new audience-developing repertoire, Toronto Chamber Opera Productions is dedicated to providing performance opportunities to talented young musicians.
Through the performance and commissioning of chamber repertoire that appeals to both recreational music goers as well as opera gurus, TCOP intends to set a precedent for excellent interpretation and delivery of new and contemporary operatic and chamber repertoire.
Three Operas In One Hour
In this inaugural season, Toronto Chamber Opera Productions is proud to present its first production, Three Operas in One Hour; featuring three chamber operas, one world premiere, ten exceptionally talented up-and-coming opera singers, and a chamber orchestra, in only one hour!
Dieppe, music by Matthew Tozer and libretto by Nick Milne (2006), poignantly recounts the Canadian raid of August 1942 from various perspectives, including a private in the South Saskatchewan Regiment on the frontlines, his anxious wife waiting back home, a German nurse, and a German gunner.
A Hand of Bridge, music by Samuel Barber and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti (1959), is possibly the shortest opera to be regularly performed throughout the world. At only nine minutes in length, the opera centres on two couples playing a hand of bridge. During their game, each character has an arietta in which he or she sings a monologue expressing their true thoughts.
O D'Amarti O Morire, music and libretto by Peter Fischer (2008), was commissioned for this production and marks its World Premiere Performance at this event. This powerful opera is based on the true story surrounding the scandalous murders by 16th century Italian composer Carlo Gesulado. In 1590, the Naples nobleman brutally murdered his wife (who was also his first cousin) and her lover (a well-known Duke) in their bed. This is truly the stuff of great opera!
TCOP productions are listed with the Opera In Toronto website.
