David James Brock

Theatre, Opera, Poetry, Film

Toronto Canada

David James Brock is a Canadian writer of opera, theatre, poetry, and film.
Author of poetry collections Everyone is CO2 and Ten-Headed Alien.
Co-creator of Breath Cycle, an opera for cystic fibrosis.

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Beyond Bluebeard: Room of Keys (COC Free Concert Series)

  • The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen Street West Toronto, ON, M5H 4G1 Canada (map)

From the COC website:

In celebration of the COC's production of Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung, pianist-composer Adam Sherkin returns to the Free Concert Series in a program highlighting the keyboard music of Béla Bartók from the exact timespan he wrote Bluebeard’s Castle: ca. 1911. 

In juxtaposition—and homage—to this music, Sherkin premieres his own Allegro gentile (a companion piece to Bartok's Allegro barbaro) and a newly commissioned monodrama for acting pianist, with a libretto by celebrated Canadian writer, David James Brock.  

Brock pens a condensed modern psycho-drama, with fresh perspectives on Duke Bluebeard and his wife Judith, thrusting these characters into the 21st century. 

Thursday April 16 @ noon (free!)
The Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts (RIchard Bradshaw Ampitheatre)

Earlier Event: April 9
Room of Keys: a New Monodrama by David James Brock performed by Adam Sherkin