Michael Hidetoshi Mori
Performances
- Ana Sokolović’s Love Songs -
- Tapestry Briefs: Under Where? -
- 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 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. Most recently, he directed Le Nozze di Figaro (Sacramento), Jacqueline (Toronto, Portland & Kelowna), Sanctuary Song (Toronto) and Queen of the Night Communion for Tapestry Opera in partnership with Luminato Festival.
He leads projects that explore digitally enhanced presentation such as Augmented Opera at Sidewalk Labs and the integration of original wearable tech in R.U.R., a torrent of light as well as 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.