Calgary opera will present its most recent new work.CALGARY OPERA The Calgary Opera is a Canadian professional opera company in Calgary, Alberta, originally known as the Southern Alberta Opera Association. It performs in the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Calgary Opera Chorus. WILL PRESENT ITS MOST recent new work, Hannaraptor by Allan Gilliland Allan Gilliland (born 1965 in Darvel, Scotland) is a contemporary Canadian composer. Gilliland moved to Canada in 1972 and settled in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Jazz Studies (trumpet) from Humber College, and degrees in performance and composition from the and Cal Brandt, at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver in June. An opera for young audiences, it had its premiere in Airdrie Apr. 5, then toured Southern Alberta Southern Alberta is a region located in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of the year 2004, the region's population was approximately 272,017[1][2]. . The opera tells the story of a young girl who finds dinosaur bones with her father on their farm in the Alberta Badlands badlands, area of severe erosion, usually found in semiarid climates and characterized by countless gullies, steep ridges, and sparse vegetation. Badland topography is formed on poorly cemented sediments that have few deep-rooted plants because short, heavy showers . Hannaraptor is the fourth commissioned work by Calgary Opera since 2001. On the horizon is The Inventor by Bramwell Tovey and John Murrell, slated for 2011. Calgary Opera is also a partner in the commissioning and production of composer Jake Heggie's Moby Dick, set for its world premiere in 2010 in Dallas starring tenor Ben Heppner. |
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