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Loose TEA is excited to announce our Summer Opera offering! Our upcoming production is a double bill featuring two short operas; Andrew and Andrea based on Bastien und Bastienne by W.A. Mozart and Mavra by Igor Stravinsky.
Opera performances that comment on dating and relationships in the age of cell phones, texting, Twitter and Facebook, accompanied by a contemporary art exhibit.
Andrew and Andrea
This is a modern adaptation on Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne set in current time outside of a wedding reception. Andrea is concerned that her boyfriend may be cheating on her as she received a text that was not meant for her, but another woman. She asks a mutual friend, Mark Zukerberg, to help her get to the truth. In a comedy that resembles only the best Sit Coms, Andrew and Andrea sort through the mess of miscommunications. They promise to pay less attention to things posted online, and try to have a relationship not lived on their
devices. Their friend, the technology magician, however still believes it was him and his magic that was able to save the day, even though it was he that created most of the problems in the first place.
Mavra
The opera by Stravinsky is set in the house of a high society single parent home. Parasha is secretly in love with the regular pizza boy. When the family maid dies unexpectedly, the father asks her to go to the agency and find a new one. Seeing her chance to spend more time with her lover, she disguises the pizza boy as a maid and presents him to her father and the neighbour who has come over to chat. The father is delighted by such an accredited maid and the lovers sing of their being together. Parasha and her father have appointments that they need to get to. While they are out, the lover notices that his 5 o’clock shadow is coming out and goes to shave texting Parasha to find out when they are coming home. In a horrible case of undelivered texts, the father and daughter are actually due back within minutes! As the father opens the door he thinks he sees a burglar and starts to call for the police. A scuffle ensues and we learn of the undelivered text. The Lover sees his window for escape and runs out of the house never to return.
Love in the Age of Autocorrect
August 21, 22, 23 - 7:30pm, August 24 - 2:30pm
Performances held at Navillus Gallery
110 Davenport Road, Toronto, ON
M5R 3R3 Tel:416.921.6467
Tickets: $30 general, $25 student with ID available on our website or at the door
About Loose TEA Music Theatre:
Loose TEA Music Theatre is a Music and Theatre company, located in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in Opera and Orchestra experiments. Loose TEA’s mission is to take traditional musical and operatic works and infuse them with and entrench them within the issues, concerns and topics of our present day world. Loose TEA Music Theatre wishes to challenge, motivate, and inspire our audience through the medium of music and opera, in a way that is approachable, understandable and relevant. Loose TEA Music Theatre is an opera company for the 21st century. www.looseteamusictheatre.com.
2014-07-29
Toronto: Loose TEA Music Theatre presents "Love in the Age of Autocorrect" August 21-24