About TrypTych Opera

TrypTych's opera division goal is to produce professional quality in-concert and staged productions of contemporary opera and music theatre as well as encouraging the development of new Canadian works.

Since 1999, TrypTych has been very active in producing a wide variety of opera presenting works by Verdi, Beethoven and Hugo Wolf. Over the past few years, we have been focusing more and more on the works of contemporary composers including Grigori Frid, Leonard Bernstein, Gian Carlo Menotti, Poulenc, Mihalovici, Weisgall and others.

Over the past season, TrypTych has produced Quenten Doolittle's Boiler Room Suite, a workshop of an abridged version of Mark Richards' Hamlet and the world premiere of Andrew Ager's Frankenstein.

TrypTych future plans include a late winter production (2011) of Menotti's Martin's Lie in celebration of Gian Carlo Menotti's cenetenary. Other projects on the horizon include Paul McIntyre's Macbeth (late 2011), a world premiere of Richards' Hamlet, a Canadian Premiere of Lieberman's The Portrait of Dorian Gray.

A CONCERT OPERA HISTORY

Verdi's Tosca

A Midsummer Night's Memories with Allan Monk

Verdi's Attila

Beethoven's Fidelio

A Night at the Opera

A Canadian Premiere
Wolf's Der Corregidor

Much Ado About Opera

A STAGED OPERA HISTORY

Mihalovici's Krapp's Last Tape

Weisgall's The Stronger

Poulenc's La Voix humanine

Menotti's The Medium

Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel

Canadian Premiere/ 3 Rings Festival Prague
Frid's The Diary of Anne Frank

Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti

A Night of Terror featuring
The Canadian Premiere of
The Tell-Tale Hear

Boiler Room Suite

Richards' Hamlet (abridged)

Ager's Frankenstein (A World Premiere)

CANADIAN WORKS

Ager's Frankenstein

Richard's Hamlet

Doolittle's Boiler Room Suite

THE FUTURE

TrypTych plans to continue its mandate of producing workshops and professional productions of new works. TrypTych's main focus will be on contemporary works with a focus on the development of new works by Canadian composers.