The Angle of Reflection
Composer: Anthony Young

Sabryn is not the first new mother to feel overwhelmed, exhausted, unprepared. The fact that her baby was born blind simply compounds her fears that she will not be up to the task. A microdrama for soprano and orchestra, about hope, fear, resilience, and everything that lies beyond what we can see.

Commissioned and premiered by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (Auckland, NZ, 2009)
Soprano: Julia Booth
Conductor: Hamish McKeich
Approximate length: 15 minutes

she sees her lover in the light of morning
Composer: Craig Galbraith

It's Orientation Week, in more ways than one. When a jaded academic brings home an exuberant student for a one-night stand, the last thing she's expecting is real connection. Possibly Canada's first lesbian opera, and contains a memorable love duet called “Cinnamon Limbs” that has been excerpted several times for performance.
First production: Tapestry New Opera Works' Opera to Go (Toronto, 2008)
Conductor: Wayne Strongman
Director: Tom Diamond
Agnieska (Soprano): Carla Huhtanen
Sumana (Mezzo): Jessica Lloyd
Approximate Length: 15 minutes

The Translator
Composer: David Ogborn

In a bleak interrogation room, Alessandra, wrists zip-corded together, faces Colonel Crane, the head of a secret, American-controlled prison for suspected terrorists, somewhere near the Afghan border... She is an interpreter who has been caught trying to leak intel to Human Rights Watch: he is determined to rehabilitate her by convincing her that the prison's "enhanced interrogation techniques" are moral and necessary. This is Sophocles' Antigone, adapted for the age of Abu Ghraib.

First production: Tapestry New Opera Works' Opera to Go (Toronto, 2008)
Conductor: Wayne Strongman
Director: Tom Diamond
Alessandra (Mezzo): Jessica Lloyd
Crane (Baritone): Calvin Powell
Chorus (Soprano, Tenor): Carla Huhtanen, Keith Klassen
Approximate Length: 15 minutes

Emergence
Composer: David Ogborn
Leanna was a contributing lyricist to this song cycle created for guitar and singing robot.
First production: Personal Computer Museum, Brantford (2009)
Singing robot: CESAR

Au Café Trudeau
Composer: Kevin Morse
Harcourt Farnsworth is finally in Montreal... and he is going to practice his French, dammit. A tiny comedy about that classic, understandable, yet utterly humiliating phenomenon known to English-speaking Canadians as "switching."
First production: Tapestry Opera Briefs, 2006
Director: Tom Diamond
Harcourt (Baritone): Alex Dobson
Ruisselle (Mezzo): Jessica Lloyd
Approximate length: 5 minutes