Tapestry Briefs: Under Where?

A night of hilarious, absurd, and compelling new opera shorts

Tapestry Briefs: Under Where? is a collection of ten hot-off-the-press opera shorts that take audiences on an immersive, tragic, absurd, and beautiful journey. This intimate production features the work of nine dynamic Canadian creators—composers Rebecca Gray, Saman Shahi, Roydon Tse, Keith Klassen, and Prokhor Protasoff, with librettists Rachel Gray, Sarah Henstra, Keith Klassen, and Christene Adina Browne.

Content warning: explicit language and sexual references.

Directed by Michael Hidetoshi Mori and Mabel Wonnacott with music direction by Hyejin Kwon and Gregory Oh, the production stars Reilly Nelson, Adanya Dunn, Keith Klassen, and Jorell Williams.

The Briefs program has a history of launching successful productions such as The Overcoat, R.U.R. A Torrent of Light and Of the Sea. The new pieces feature a wide range of stories, from a mother with Alzheimer’s and a sponge in a romantic duet with a yogurt container to a woman trying to eat alone despite a tenor’s best efforts.