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Since the very beginning in 2011, Juno-award winning pianist Serouj Kradjian has been involved in Hell’s Fury: The Hollywood Songbook. Read our blog to learn about his creative process, his favourite Luminato memory, and why he believes the life of Hanns Eisler feels so current and poignant today.

Visit our blog: http://bit.ly/Illuminating-Thoughts-Serouj-Kradjian

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King Arthur’s Night is taking the world by storm! Since the world-premiere at Luminato two years ago, they’ve been invited to Vancouver, Ottawa, and Hong Kong. And just next week they’ll be in earbuds around the world! Revisit this phenomenal production over and over when the cast album drops on February 22, 2019! 🎹💿🎼

Get your copy at www.vedahille.com Veda Hille.

Learn more about King Arthur’s Night on our website: https://luminatofestival.com/Archiv…/2017/King-Arthurs-Night

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#TBT to Luminato 2012's staging of La Belle et la Bête: A Contemporary Retelling by Montreal's Lemieux Pilon 4D Art, a multimedia fairy tale experience merging theatre, film, dance, poetry, visual arts, music and sound.

Visit our website to learn more: Luminato.com

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Isn't this weather snow much fun?? ❄️☃️❄️ It really makes us look forward to MASQUERADE, a melancholy Commedia dell’Arte set in mysterious, snowy Saint Petersburg and presented next June 9-10 by Luminato & Show One Productions Presents.

VISIT our website for info: http://bit.ly/Masquerade-snow-fb

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It’s #MusicMonday!

Listen to audio tracks inspired by Salem, witches and witch trials in our first playlist of 2019, including Arthur Miller himself reading excerpts from his play ‘The Crucible’. 

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ON THIS DAY in 1950 the German Democratic Republic (DDR) adopts as its national anthem Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Risen from Ruins), with music by Hanns Eisler, the Austrian composer whose work will be explored in Hell’s Fury: The Hollywood Songbook at Luminato.

VISIT our blog and discover the fascinating life of Hanns Eisler: http://bit.ly/Eisler-art-life-exile

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February 6, 1948. At a hearing of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York, German-born Austrian composer Hanns Eisler is ordered out the country.

Read our blog to discover more about this composer’s life and work, a topic portrayed in Hell’s Fury: The Hollywood Songbook at Luminato, presented by Luminato & Soundstreams. http://bit.ly/2RYbS8N

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FEBRUARY 1, 1692. It was a harsh winter in the Colony of Massachusetts. The household of Reverend Samuel Parris, minister of Salem Village, continued to be afflicted by his daughter Betty’s strange behaviour. The whole family prayed for her well being....

READ our blog for a timeline exploring the events leading to the Salem Witch Trials, an event explored in Obeah Opera at Luminato 2019.

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Today is the 82nd birthday of Philip Glass! In 2012, we proudly we proudly presented a restaging of of Philip Glass & Bob Wilson’s EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, returning this seminal achievement to the stage after two decades. 

READ more the Luminato staging of this work on our website --> http://bit.ly/2RpKAE4

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January 27 marks the death anniversary of Scottish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. Best known for his animation films made for the National Film Board of Canada, his work continues to inspire millions around the world. In 2007, we presented Norman, a tribute multimedia dance piece interpreted by performer and choreographer Peter Trosztmer. 

Visit our website to learn more about this work co-commissioned by Luminato:http://bit.ly/luminato-2007-norman-tmblr

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Hanns Eisler: Life and Art in Exile

Based on Hanns Eisler’s song cycle, Hell’s Fury: The Hollywood Songbook, a new work of musical theatre presented in 2019 by Luminato, explores the exciting and controversial life of German composer Hanns Eisler. In the next weeks, we will examine the historical context surrounding Hanns Eisler’s life in exile.

Follow the Luminato blog: http://bit.ly/hanns-eisler-blog-tm

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The Salem Witch Trials Timeline

Obeah Opera, part of the Luminato 2019 line up, tells the story of the Salem witch trials from the spellbinding perspective of the first woman accused, the young Caribbean slave Tituba. For the next few weeks, we’ll map out a series of important events in 1692 that led to the Salem witch trials.

Follow the Luminato blog: http://bit.ly/Salem-Witch-Blog-tm

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LUMINATO 2019 presents HELL’S FURY: The Hollywood Songbook

A music theatre production that portrays a day in the life of Hanns Eisler, one of Europe’s most gifted mid-century composers, from his arrival in Hollywood to his death in East Germany, using the songs of Hollywood Songbook to weave the story together. Featuring world-renowned baritone Russell Brain and Juno Award-winning pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian, the show will be presented June 19-23, 2019 at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre and it’s presented in partnership with Soundstreams.

Learn more on our website: Luminato.com

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LUMINATO 2019 presents MASQUERADE

A tragi-farce based on the writings of Mikhail Lermontov, one of Russia’s most important 19th century poets, Masquerade is produced by one of Moscow’s oldest theatre companies and uncovers the real moralities of modern society behind the masks that everyone wears. 

MASQUERADE will be presented June 9-10, 2019 at the John W.H. Bassett Theatre in Toronto.

Learn more on our website: Luminato.com

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LUMINATO 2019 presents THE FULL LIGHT OF DAY

From award-winning artists Daniel Brooks and Kim Collier comes a provocative film theatre hybrid about an aging matriarch who must contend with her family’s corrupt legacy before she dies.

The Full Light of Day will be presented June 12-16, 2019 at the Berkeley Street Theatre in downtown Toronto. 

More info on our website: https://luminatofestival.com

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Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools is a multimedia performance, concert, dialogue, and symbolic convergence between the North and the South of Canada. Inuk artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and queer theatre-maker Evalyn Parry, accompanied by cellist Cris Derksen, map new territory together in a work that gives voice and body to the lived histories, culture, and climate we have inherited, challenges the audience to confront their lack of knowledge, and then asks how we reckon with these sharp tools.

Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools will be presented June 12-16, 2019 at the Berkeley Street Theatre in downtown Toronto. 

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Obeah Opera is a hand-clapping, foot-stomping, spirit-lifting, musical sensation. Steeped in Black music and sung entirely a cappella by a powerful all-female cast, Obeah Opera tells the story of the legendary Salem witch trials from the spellbinding perspective of the first woman accused, the young Caribbean slave Tituba.  Obeah Opera will be presented during #Luminato2019 June 13-22, 2019 at the Fleck Dance Theatre in Toronto.