The Human Voice (2021)
The Human Voice
Music by Francis Poulenc
Text by Isaiah Bell
Isaiah Bell, tenor
Roger Parton, piano
A vivid new production of a masterpiece. A story for our times.
In the original, a lone soprano sings into a telephone, frustrated by a technology that fails and distances and impairs any prospect of intimacy. Her lover advises that he has found another woman. We present a flip of gender, and a metaphor of global pandemic. Yet technology is once again enemy to intimacy.
At the Statue of Venus (2021)
At the Statue of Venus
Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano
Terrence Dawson, piano
Rose is set up on a blind date At the Statue of Venus. What could possibly go wrong? Almost everything, it seems. A romance for our times. And then some.
Perruqueries (2021)
Perruqueries
Music by Jocelyn Morlock
Text by Bill Richardson
Robyn Driedger-Klassen, soprano
Peter Monaghan, bass-baritone
Tina Chang, piano
Perruqueries is a hilarious and deeply-informed look at wigs and the divos and divas who love and need them. With text by Bill Richardson and music by the VSO’s own Jocelyn Morlock, this 20-minute entertainment will amuse and amaze. Hear about the soprano whose wig caught fire during Tosca, hockey players who wear more than helmets on their heads, and more!