Chautauqua Opera Company Workshop: Anne of Green Gables and A Prayer for Owen Meany

Chautauqua Opera Company will host the first workshops of two new works by GRAMMY Award nominated composer Luna Pearl Woolf. Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre has commissioned a new adaptation of Anne of Green Gables by Woolf and librettist Royce Vavrek (Lincoln in the Bardo). Pacific Opera Victoria and Opéra Magnolia have commissioned the first operatic adaptation of John Irving’s internationally best-selling novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, for which Woolf will provide both libretto and music. Through these inventive new operas two of Canadian literature’s most iconic characters, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne Shirley and Irving’s Owen Meany, will come to life. The public presentation with piano accompaniment which concludes these workshops will be the first time any music from these works has been heard, and will give Chautauqua audiences a unique opportunity to watch the development of these groundbreaking works.