Old men can dance
The Globe and Mail: Discussion of The Three Man Project: Full Bloom, wich premiered at The Banff Centre on January 9.
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John Estacio among composers winning National Arts Centre awards
CBC News: “John Estacio of Edmonton, Peter Paul Koprowski of Ottawa, and Ana Sokolovic of Montreal are the winners of the National Arts Centre Awards, which encompass musical commissions and residencies valued at $75,000 each.”
Estacio has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre and was composer of The Banff Centre opera commissions Filumena and Frobisher.
Banff Centre productions among “decade’s most significant”
CBC News: CBC picks Filumena (2003) and The Fiddle and the Drum (2007) as two of the decade’s most significant moments in the performing arts.
Operatic Vixen seduces through music and sets
Calgary Herald: Bob Clark gives The Cunning Little Vixen 3-1/2 out of 5.
John Murrell finds love in translation
Calgary Herald: “The Banff production of The Cunning Little Vixen marks the premiere of Murrell’s own translation of the composer’s Czech libretto.”
“Rewriting Janacek, when you don’t speak Czech”
The Globe and Mail: “John Murrell had been itching to do an English translation of The Cunning Little Vixen for years. Now the Banff Centre’s given him his chance.”
Murrell pens English libretto for Janacek family opera
CBC Arts: “Calgary playwright and director John Murrell has written an English-language libretto for Leos Janacek’s opera The Story of Sharp Ears the Fox (or The Cunning Little Vixen). The family opera will premiere in English for the first time at the Banff Centre for the Arts in August… The work has a new orchestration by Briton Jonathan Dove and will be performed by singers from the Banff Opera as Theatre program.”
Lee Award winner dancing way to diverse career
Calgary Herald: “Globe-trotting ex-Calgarian wins in Banff”. Bob Clark profiles Heather Myers, winner of the 2009 Clifford E. Lee Choreography Award. Myers’s dance piece Dedications premieres at Festival Dance.
Lured in by siren song
Calgary Herald: Bob Clark posts a positive review of Jonathan Dove’s Siren Song: “Banff Centre’s chamber opera tragic excellence…. The three principals in the six-member cast do very well indeed.”
“A far-out, high-energy, gorgeous gamble”
Globe and Mail: Reviewer calls dance performance choreographed by three Clifford E. Lee award winners — Peter Quanz, Crystal Pite, and Sabrina Matthews — a “triumph of Canadian choreography.” The show was commissioned by Natonal Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain.