Calgary Herald: Bob Clark rates Love Lies Bleeding 5 out of 5. “Throughout, designer Marie Bertrand’s costumes [made at The Banff Centre] are fabulous.” Elton John was not present at the sold-out premiere.
Also see
Calgary Herald: The costumes for Alberta Ballet’s Love Lies Bleeding, featuring music by Elton John, were designed by Martine Bertrand. “Bertrand chose the Banff Centre as the facility to assemble the team of experts from Europe and across Canada to carry out the various cutting, sewing, dyeing and accessorizing procedures necessary to have her costume sketches turned into a reality.”
See also Andrea Brussa Master Artist Endowment enhances costume build for Love Lies Bleeding.
Toronto Star: “Arnold Spohr, Royal Winnipeg Ballet artistic director emeritus and one of the best-loved figures in Canadian dance, died of chronic kidney disease in a Winnipeg long-term care centre early Monday morning. He was 86…. He headed the Banff Centre’s respected summer dance program between 1967 and 1981″
The Globe and Mail: Discussion of The Three Man Project: Full Bloom, wich premiered at The Banff Centre on January 9.
CBC News: “John Estacio of Edmonton, Peter Paul Koprowski of Ottawa, and Ana Sokolovic of Montreal are the winners of the National Arts Centre Awards, which encompass musical commissions and residencies valued at $75,000 each.”
Estacio has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre and was composer of The Banff Centre opera commissions Filumena and Frobisher.
CBC News: CBC picks Filumena (2003) and The Fiddle and the Drum (2007) as two of the decade’s most significant moments in the performing arts.
Calgary Herald: Bob Clark gives The Cunning Little Vixen 3-1/2 out of 5.
Calgary Herald: “The Banff production of The Cunning Little Vixen marks the premiere of Murrell’s own translation of the composer’s Czech libretto.”
The Globe and Mail: “John Murrell had been itching to do an English translation of The Cunning Little Vixen for years. Now the Banff Centre’s given him his chance.”
CBC Arts: “Calgary playwright and director John Murrell has written an English-language libretto for Leos Janacek’s opera The Story of Sharp Ears the Fox (or The Cunning Little Vixen). The family opera will premiere in English for the first time at the Banff Centre for the Arts in August… The work has a new orchestration by Briton Jonathan Dove and will be performed by singers from the Banff Opera as Theatre program.”