In Bocca al lupo

Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, March 1991
17 River Street, Toronto, November 1991
Western Front, Vancouver, April 1992

A ninety-minute operatic performance/installation with a six-piece choir, two solo vocalists, three musicians, six dancers, a prerecorded audio tape, and slide and video projections. The audience and performers were engulfed by a large wooden figure, 9 x 12 m’s by 3 m’s thick. The intent was to open up anger, examine it and let it be manifest. The performers were the anger personified and named. Characters moved out of the wooden figure, to interact with the audience and each other. Their actions were cued by the prerecorded audio tape that played continuously.

This work was the result of a collaboration with an amazing team of performers and friends. The opera would not have been possible without their dedication and commitment. Love and respect to all.
Elia Arce, Renée Baert, Monique Régimbald -Zeiber, Magda Compos, Olga Gittelson,Vita Plume, Emily Hicks, Kelly Hargraves, Jessica Hagedorn and Leonora Bedia.  Charmaine Wheatley, Beth Windler, Gwen Noah, Andrea Curry, Joann Sinclair, Arlene Jackson, Rose Vaughn, and Miriam German. Pat Jeffries, Beth Gibson, Shonagh Adelman, and Tina Russell. Christina Zeidler, Leigh MacDonald, Louise Lillifeld, Liza Holly, Debbie Danbrook, Chiyoko Szlanics, Caroline Azar, and Alisa Palmer. Yoko Takashima, Keiko Okamura, Tagny Duff, Elizabeth Burr, Heather Hodson, Andrea Kohl, Ann McDonell, Sue McGowan, Annie Moss, Amie Stafford, and Hera the dog.

Deirdre Logue, Kim Truchan, Jude Major, Kathleen Yearwood, Celina Carroll, Elaine Stef, Rachel Melas, and Conny Nowe all traveled and performed in all three cities. I am so grateful for their dedication and commitment to this work.

Deirdre Logue and Kim Truchan helped from the very beginning with the planning, development ad production of the work. Jude Major designed and produced the costumes. This work could not have been realized without them.

Elaine Stef, Kathleen Yearwood, Celina Carroll, and Rachel Melas collaborated on the music for the performance. Kathleen Yearwood collaborated on several parts of the music for the prerecorded audio component that accompanied the performance.