Pomegranate

The COC continues its commitment to boundary-pushing opera when it presents the world premiere of Pomegranate, a new co-production with Vancouver Opera. This transcendent love story by Kye Marshall and Amanda Hale follows Suli and Cassia, who struggle to express their love for each other freely as they traverse time and space, facing an impossible ultimatum. Featuring lush orchestration that ranges from harp to electric piano, the opera’s music and stylistic changes pinpoint temporal shifts as the narrative charts an adventure from a women’s temple in ancient Pompeii to a Toronto lesbian bar in 1981.