Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Performances
- Queen of the Night Communion -
- Sanctuary Song -
- Jacqueline -
- Rocking Horse Winner -
- Dragon’s Tale -
- Gould’s Wall -
- R.U.R. A Torrent of Light -
- Songbook XI -
- Tap In: I Can’t Breathe
- S.O.S. Sketch Opera Singers
- Where Do I Go? -
- Our Song D’Hiver -
- Rocking Horse Winner Cast Recording
- Love Songs – A Saxophony -
- Improvisation As Life -
- Augmented Opera -
- Shanawdithit -
- Songbook VIII -
- Forbidden -
- Winter Shorts -
- Bandits in the Valley -
Michael Hidetoshi Mori is a stage director and the General and Artistic Director of Tapestry Opera in Toronto, Canada. As an operatic stage director, Michael has been twice awarded Canada’s highest honour for Outstanding Direction of an Opera for Rocking Horse Winner and R.U.R., a Torrent of Light. In 2024, he directed Jacqueline, a story about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, at West Edge Opera, and Le Nozze di Figaro for the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera.
His work ranges from explorations in immersive digitally enhanced presentation with Augmented Opera at Sidewalk Labs and integration of original wearable tech in R.U.R., a torrent of light to neo-classical settings of Il Trittico & Rigoletto, to community-integrated story development and collaborations with Indigenous artists with Shanawdithit in Toronto and St. John’s and Maada’ookii Songlines with the Luminato Festival. As a film director, his music video Where do I go, in collaboration with singer/pianist/songwriter Morgan Paige Melbourne, recently won best picture at Toronto’s Experimental/Dance/Music Film Festival.