Produced by Tapestry Opera in collaboration with Theatre Passe Muraille
“Cooking up musical mayhem”
Jennifer Tung and Keith Klassen co-host this delicious concert inspired by Jennifer’s 15 years of working with Tapestry and Keith’s unique sense of humour. Special guests, including Hungarian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, join in an evening of new ideas, sharing the excitement of creation.
With a little game show, some improv and maybe even some ventriloquism, the audience will be invited to participate in the creation process, so roll up your sleeves, Chef!
Venue
Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace Theatre
16 Ryerson Ave, Toronto
*Due to circumstances beyond their control and to avoid cancellation, Tapestry Opera has rescheduled the Iron Chef d’Orchestre and Le Kitchen Party dates.
Iron Chef d’Orchestre on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, and Le Kitchen Party will now be on Tuesday, May 21, 2024.
Credits
Associate Artistic Director, Conductor & Co-Host
Jennifer Tung
Composer & Co-Host
Keith Klassen
Composer
Ivan Barbotin
Libbretist
Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Production Manager
Carlos Varela
Tenor
Keith Klassen
Mezzo-Soprano
Krisztina Szabó
Tickets & Showtimes
Iron Chef D’Orchestre – May 22nd at 8 PM
Full accessibility guide can be downloaded here!
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Founded in 1979, Tapestry Opera is an award-winning Toronto-based company dedicated to creating, developing and performing original, progressive opera. We are passionate about timely, resonant stories told in innovative settings and interpreted by extraordinary artists. We create space to unite diverse art forms, creators, and communities to develop powerful, boundary-breaking opera that reflects and changes the world. We believe in embedding our values in everything we do, on and offstage, and work to create a flexible, adaptable, and accountable culture for our time and communities.
A Dora nominated conductor (Gould’s Wall), Jennifer Tung is the artistic director of Toronto City Opera and assistant conductor of the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. She leads a uniquely versatile career as music director, collaborative pianist and soprano. In 2020/21, she joined Tapestry Opera as a conducting fellow in the inaugural year of the Women in Musical Leadership program in partnership with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Pacific Opera Victoria.
Jennifer debuted with the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival conducting The Mikado in 2017, and has returned to conduct Sweeney Todd and Tragedy of Carmen. In 2019, she debuted with Opera York in La Traviata. She assisted Tapestry Opera and Opera on the Avalon’s joint production of the Dora Award-winning opera Shanawdithit by Dean Burry and Yvette Nolan. Recently, she conducted the world premiere of Gould’s Wall by Brian Current and Liza Balken, a joint production with the Royal Conservatory of Music and Tapestry Opera.
For the 2022/23 season, she has debuted as guest conductor with Opera McGill’s production of Plaything (Anna Pigorna/Maria Reva – Canadian premiere), Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and Kamloops Symphony. In March of 2023, Jennifer will conduct the world premieres of Continuum’s production of the opera Show Room (Rodney Sharman/Etom Egoyan) as well as Tapestry Opera/Obsidian Theatre’s co-production of Of the Sea (Ian Cusson/Kanika Ambrose).
Jennifer is on faculty at Toronto’s Glenn Gould School and is a sought-after faculty member for summer programs internationally. She holds degrees in vocal performance and collaborative piano from the Eastman School of Music and has studied conducting with Maestro Denis Mastromonaco.
To schedule an interview with the artist, or staff members at Theatre Passe Muraille regarding this production, please email Red eye media at Suzanne@redeyemedia.ca. We will try out best to accommodate your media requests, however they are not guaranteed.
Details coming soon!