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TORONTO — MESSIAH/COMPLEX, the acclaimed movie from Towards the Grain Theatre (AtG) has received the Noteworthy Undertaking award on the inaugural OPERA America Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera.
New York-based OPERA America introduced the winners of the first-ever Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera on November seventh, recognizing the very best work created for digital platforms by particular person producers and organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada, in 4 classes: Inventive Creation (AtG’s Sāvitri was a finalist), Training/Enrichment Materials, College/Conservatory Initiatives, and Noteworthy Initiatives (MESSIAH/COMPLEX). The 2022 winners had been chosen from over 100 submissions and solely 14 finalists.
“With the Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera, we have fun a brand new car for creating, distributing, and experiencing opera,” said Marc A. Scorca, President and CEO of OPERA America. “Opera on digital platforms — a necessity in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic — has confirmed to be a useful addition to the sphere, inviting new ranges of innovation and repair to audiences. We’re happy to have the ability to share these exceptional tasks with the general public.”
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“On behalf of AtG Theatre, the artists and the artistic group of MESSIAH/COMPLEX, we wish to thank OPERA America for recognizing this distinctive movie that’s so near our hearts,” stated Joel Ivany, Towards the Grain Theatre’s founder and creative director, and co-director of MESSIAH/COMPLEX. “Throughout the early days of COVID, AtG took an enormous threat by pivoting to movie. We had been fortunate to collaborate with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) and singers throughout Canada, hoping to create one thing particular for our audiences and communities caught at house throughout lockdown. We’re very grateful that MESSIAH/COMPLEX earned this inaugural award from one of many world’s main opera organizations.”
Hailed by The New York Occasions as “a rousing and decidedly Canadian model of Handel’s Messiah,” AtG’s critically acclaimed function movie MESSIAH/COMPLEX returns this vacation season — streaming free on-demand beginning December 11, 2022, to January 8, 2023.
A made-in-Canada movie that captured hearts worldwide,
MESSIAH/COMPLEX premiered on-line in the course of the December 2020 COVID lockdown — a vacation season like no different — and was introduced in partnership by AtG and the TSO. The impartial manufacturing grew to become a world hit and was seen by audiences in greater than forty nations, leading to AtG receiving 1000’s of grateful messages from worldwide followers.
MESSIAH/COMPLEX garnered worldwide vital acclaim and was featured by The New York Occasions, BBC World Service, BBC Right now Programme, France Musique, The Los Angeles Occasions, Boston Globe, and Opera Wire, which known as it “A Revolutionary Method to Handel’s Masterpiece.” In Canada, it was showcased by CBC’s The Nationwide, CBC q, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Xtra, Broadview, Opera Canada, Maclean’s, and LudwigVan.com, the place cultural critic Paula Citron remarked that this model of Messiah “was one of many single best accomplishments within the annals of Canadian classical music.”
Earlier this yr, the soundtrack for MESSIAH/COMPLEX was nominated for a JUNO Award within the class of Classical Album of the 12 months (Giant Ensemble).
The place, When, and Tips on how to Watch
AtG’s MESSIAH/COMPLEX is accessible to stream on-demand from December eleventh, 2022 till January eighth, 2023
Ticket registration for this efficiency is accessible freed from cost, or pay-what-you-can.
Registration is now out there at https://bit.ly/
For extra data on MESSIAH/COMPLEX, go to https://atgtheatre.com/
ABOUT AtG
Towards the Grain Theatre (AtG) is a multi-award-winning Canadian experimental opera firm devoted to creating boundary-breaking, genre-defying vocal works and movies staged in stunning places emphasizing progressive storytelling and memorable creative experiences. AtG is the creator of the internationally acclaimed movie Messiah/Advanced and the continued Opera Pub sequence.
Established in 2010 and nonetheless evolving, AtG is dedicated to revitalizing the operatic artwork kind by introducing various audiences to outside-the-box opera experiences, creating daring re-interpretations of classical repertoire, and providing thrilling, intimate, and unforgettable experiences shared between artists and audiences.
For extra data, please go to AtG on-line at atgtheatre.com, on Twitter and Instagram @AtGTheatre, and on Fb at fb.com/AtGTheatre.
