Plurabelle Opera Inc
Registered Name: Plurabelle Opera Inc.
Business No: 734003627RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and have been issued a charitable registration number.
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P L U R A B E L L E is an opera in two or more acts, steeped in the “Anna Livia Plurabelle” chapter of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, and drawing out and upon some of the 3,000+ references to opera that he fused into his flourishing text.
Begetter / Librettist: Thomas Peter O'Brien
Composer: Augusta Read Thomas
P L U R A B E L L E is the first opera based on Joyce’s crowning masterpiece – one of the defining books of our time.
Two women discuss the world: familial and societal tumult; personal and sexual intrigue; cyclical and mutable nature and history; decay, decline, and death; and rhythmic, ritualistic, and labyrinthine imaginings. At the end of the opera, one woman turns into a tree, the other to a stone.
Joyce said that his book “is the first look into the bowl of creation … the reader participates in the birth or the end of the world when it happens. Everyone is anyone and every moment is any moment.”
The first 20-25 minutes of the opera will be composed, orchestrated, sung, and recorded (both audio and video) by January 2026. Approaches to commissioning opera companies will follow, including The Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Irish National Opera, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi (Trieste), and the Canadian Opera Company.
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