Watershed Festival Archive

SOLO: The Modern Opera The World Needs

  • Review
  • Watershed Festival

There is a conventional expectation of what a Western opera performer and performance should look like. With expensive sets and costumes and elaborate orchestrations, it is an artform who’s high-brow reputation is the only part I’m familiar with. But Musique 3 Femmes’ presentation of SOLO at this year’s Watershed Festival, the “tour-de-force double bill for solo voice” actively subverted the Eurocentric tradition inherent to opera allowing the songs and stories […]

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New Canadian Musical LANCASHIRE LASS Explores British History Through A Soaring Score

  • Festival
  • Queen's University
  • Review
  • Watershed Festival

like a surprising combination to some. On May 27, the Watershed Festival presented award-winning composer and DAN School of Drama and Music’s artist-in-residence Leslie Arden’s latest commission The Lancashire Lass, a full-length musical that will receive its premiere at next year’s festival. 

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Watershed’s New Works Showcase dives in head first

  • Festival
  • Queen's University
  • Review
  • Watershed Festival

The Watershed Festival continues to explore how and who exactly are the artists examining and developing music theatre as we know it. The New Works Showcase featured a series of upcoming projects at various stages of development from artists across the country, followed by a live Q & A with the creators. 

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Leading Ladies: Musique 3 Femmes at the Watershed Festival

  • Festival
  • Queen's University
  • Review
  • Watershed Festival

In a time of creative and collective upheaval, the inaugural Watershed Festival examines the integration of music, drama, dance, and design as musical theatre or opera, exploring those boundaries in order to revitalize the ways those artforms are practiced and understood.

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