This year’s theme for the Toronto Summer Music Festival is “London Calling,” so it follows logically that Britten is among their featured composers. The festival this year is putting on a special July 22 production of Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia, co-produced with Against the Grain Theatre, the Banff Centre and the COC. It’s a semi-staged, one-night-only chance to hear rarely-performed music, from one of England’s best-known compositional voices. Joel Ivany (artistic director), Topher Mokrzewski (music director) and Anna Theodosakis (stage director) form the direction team, and mezzo-soprano Emma Char sings the title role.
The WholeNote has a pair of tickets to this show, available for an interested reader! Just fill out your info below and answer the following question:
The Rape of Lucretia, written in 1946, is Britten’s third opera. Which grand opera did he write immediately before this one in 1945--one of Britten’s best-known works, which helped catapult him to worldwide fame?
Contest deadline: Friday, July 8 at 12pm. Details on the show can be found at https://www.torontosummermusic.com/2016-festival/mainstage-concerts/winter-garden-theatre/july-22-the-rape-of-lucretia/.