Tom McCamus (6/96 Soldier's Story)
Excerpt from Opera Canada 6/26/96: Tom McCamus
Opera on the cutting edge: Thom Sokoloski strives for the total work of art at Autumn Leaf Performance.
In November, Sokoloski will direct a multimedia production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat as part of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's festival of East European music. Jukka-Pekka Saraste will conduct a cast that features Colme Feore (star of Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould), Diana LeBlanc (who will be directing Dialogues des Carmelites next season at the Canadian Opera Company) and Tom McCamus.
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Excerpt from Autumn Leaf Performance's Sonic Boom 1996: Tom McCamus
The Soldier's Story
Friday, November 15, 1996
2 showings only at 7:30pm and 9:30pm MacMillan Theatre (UofT)
"The Soldier's Story": Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece of music-theatre is updated and brought to life through a dynamic multi-media production directed by Thom Sokoloski. Based on the classic Faustian story of man's struggle between sacrifice and temptation, a UN soldier returns from a peace-keeping mission to discover the most violent war is the one raging in his soul.
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The main character, the Soldier, is played by Tom McCamus who will be re-united on stage with Leblanc (he played the consumptive Edmund in "Long Day's Journey Into Night".) McCamus won the Genie Award for his portrayal of a lonely actor pretending to be a cop in the film "I Love A Man In Uniform". He will be joining SONiC BOOM after his celebrated performance at this year's Stratford Festival's production of "Waiting for Godot". "The Soldier's Story" is presented in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and will part of their perspective of 20th century Russian music.
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