Pacific Opera Victoria presents: Les Feluettes (Lilies)

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Thursday, April 20th, 2017
April 20, 22, 28, 2017, at 8 pm; April 30 at 2:30 pm

A new Canadian Opera, co-commissioned & co-produced by Pacific Opera Victoria & Productions ODM Inc. (Opéra de Montréal) World Première in Montreal: May, 2016 Music: Kevin March Libretto: Michel Marc Bouchard Based on a celebrated Canadian play by Michel Marc Bouchard, Les Feluettes (Lilies) is a romantic drama of startling beauty. In French with English surtitles

Approximate running time: 130 minutes, plus one intermission Pre-performance talk 1 hour before curtain Overview: The drama revolves round the consequences of a moment in 1912. A group of boys at a Quebec college rehearse Gabriele D'Annunzio's sensual play The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. As a devastating love triangle unfolds, one boy dies, one is sent to prison, one becomes a bishop.

Decades later, the bishop is made to watch as prisoners re-enact the past, re-creating a panoply of vivid characters – a young pyromaniac; an old man hunting the missing pieces of his past; a brutal alcoholic; an exiled countess; a beautiful Frenchwoman who pilots a hot-air balloon. To purchase tickets or for more information, please contact Pacific Opera Victoria at 250-385-0222