Young audience, 6 years +
Coproduction Musique 3 Femmes, Le Vivier, Festival de Casteliers, Sixtrum et École montréalaise pour tous.
Musique 3 Femmes
Musique 3 Femmes is a Montréal-based contemporary opera company dedicated to creating new stories and new worlds on the operatic stage. Led by Kristin Hoff, the company commissions, develops, and produces operas by female and non-binary composers and librettists, with a focus on nurturing emerging female creators. Since 2018, M3F has commissioned twelve new operas and is currently developing its first large-scale operatic creation. Nanatasis is a special project for M3F, marking the company’s first puppet opera and its first journey into Abenaki storytelling for the operatic stage.
Credits
Composer: Alejandra Odgers
Librettist: Nicole O’Bomsawin
Stage direction and set design: Troy Hourie
Puppeteers: Karine St-Arnaud, Lysanne O’Bomsawin, Andrew Gaboury, Ivanie Aubin-Malo
Technical director: Guillaume Barrette
Puppet consultants: Jesse Wabegijig, Teatro e Marionetas de Mandrágora, Portugal
Movement specialist: Andrew Gaboury
Projection consultant: Ben Rosenberg
Video: Andrew Scriver and Emily Soussana
Music composition: Alejandra Odgers
Conductor: Christopher Gaudreault
Soprano: Odéi Bilodeau
Mezzo-soprano: Élise Boucher-DaGonzague, Kristin Hoff
Tenor: Mishael Eusebio
Bass: William Kraushaar
Flutes: Josée Poirier
Percussion: Joâo Catalâo, Fabrice Marandola, Philip Hornsey, Kristie Ibrahim
Lights : Mathieu Marcil
Titles : Ghislaine Deschambault
Production manager: Kristin Hoff
Musique 3 Femmes gratefully acknowledges the generous sharing of knowledge and experience by the Abenaki people who brought this creation to life: Nicole O’Bomsawin, Élise Boucher-DeGonzague, Troy Hourie, Lysanne O'Bomsawin, Ivanie Aubin-Malo, and Jesse Wabegijig.
Special thanks to Sylvain Rivard for sharing his knowledge and love for the Abenaki culture.
The creation of Nanatasis was made possible thanks to the support of Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Azrieli Foundation, the Sixtrum Percussion Ensemble, Groupe Le Vivier, Casteliers, Salle Bourgie, CIRMMT, Opera McGill, and the Université de Montréal.
Musique 3 Femmes also wishes to thank Troy Hourie and the University of Guelph for contributing to the opera’s visual design by offering a theatre course in experiential learning.
