Luminato Dinner Series

SPLENDIDO (David Lee)
Saturday, June 7
5pm & 10pm
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416.929.7788
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Inspired by the timeless music of Mozart, Mozart Dances features 16 dancers performing against the bold backdrops of British artist Howard Hodgkins and accompanied live by members of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra. The New York Times hailed the piece as "a masterpiece...one of Mr. Morris's greatest achievements."

NOCE (Guido Saldini)
Sunday, June 8
5pm & 10pm
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416.504.3463
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The world premiere of 2005 Vancouver Arts Award Winner, Kevin Loring's modern play, Where The Blood Mixes, about survival and reconciliation. Both mythic and modern, it is the intimate story of a native man and his daughter spanning two decades. Full of emotion and political awareness and addressing the First Nation's children and their education.

COLBORNE LANE (Claudio Aprile)
Monday, June 9
5:30pm - 10pm
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416.368.9009
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A new generation of musicians pay homage to this country's greatest songwriters in Canadian Songbook. Festival artists and special guests play the great works of songwriters such as Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

BYMARK (Mark McEwan)
Tuesday, June 10
4:30pm til closing
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416.777.1144
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American composer and performer Mikel Rouse's innovative multi-media opera trilogy, presented for the first time in repertory. 15 years in the making the finale is The End of Cinematics, a hyper-real 3-D movie live on stage.

ONE (Mark McEwan)
Wednesday, June 11
4:30pm til closing
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416.961.9600
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An internationally acclaimed South Asian production of the classic Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring 23 dancers, street acrobats, martial arts experts, musicians, actors and performers from across India and Sri Lanka.

TRUFFLES (Laurie Bandur)
Wednesday, June 11
5:30 dinner seating
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416.964.0411
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An internationally acclaimed South Asian production of the classic Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring 23 dancers, street acrobats, martial arts experts, musicians, actors and performers from across India and Sri Lanka.

TRUFFLES (Laurie Bandur)
Thursday, June 12
5:30 dinner seating
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416.964.0411
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Nunavut, featuring a groundbreaking collaboration between Grammy-winning Kronos Quartet and Inuit vocalist Tanya Tagaq, the programme was created as a means of exploring the clarity, directness and unique relationships of music from the Far North. Tagaq improvises her throat singing. Also featured will be works by Canadian, Icelandic, Finnish, and Norwegian musicians and composers

RAIN (Guy Rubino)
Friday, June 13
5:00pm & 11pm
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416.599.7246
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The Fiddle and The Drum, a ballet collaboration between Joni Mitchell and Alberta Ballet Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maitre featuring 25 dancers, 12 songs and projections of Mitchell's striking paintings. It will be presented with two pieces from the National Ballet of Canada: Etudes and the second detail.

CAVA (Chris McDonald)
Friday, June 13
5:00pm & 11pm
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416.979.9918
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The Fiddle and The Drum, a ballet collaboration between Joni Mitchell and Alberta Ballet Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maitre featuring 25 dancers, 12 songs and projections of Mitchell's striking paintings. It will be presented with two pieces from the National Ballet of Canada: Etudes and the second detail.

CAVA (Chris McDonald)
Saturday, June 14
6:00pm dinner seating
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416.979.9918
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Poetry, Music and Politics meet in Homeland, a series of songs and stories that paint a portrait of contemporary American culture. A new project from acclaimed American multi-media performance artist Laurie Anderson who casts herself in roles as varies as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist and instrumentalist. Homeland is a tour de force of spoken word and music.