Life within the web age is already lonely, and it’s solely within the faceless on-line setting that marginalized voices discover a actual house. That’s the fundamental premise behind LOL — Laughing Out Lonely, a solo opera work that takes the stage at Tapestry Opera’s Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre on January 16 and 17.
The work involves Toronto by way of Denmark, composed by Matilde Böcher, with sound manufacturing by Asger Kudahls, and starring countertenor Morten Grove Frandsens.
The one individual opera is produced by Danish firm OPE-N, identified for his or her modern works, and premiered in 2023. The manufacturing toured Denmark to soldout homes, and Morten Grove Frandsen was nominated for a Reumert Award in 2024 for his solo efficiency.
About LOL: Laughing Out Loud Lonely
The lyrics for LOL have been created in English, drawn from social media posts by younger folks, and features a vary of outsider personalities just like the lady with The Fucking Ugly Face, a self-harmer who cuts herself, and The Lamb, a boy who fantasizes about being slaughtered.
The work plumbs the darkish areas the web, giving voice to the misogynists, racists, self harming folks, and others who’ve discovered a form of neighborhood on-line. The viewers turns into a part of the setting on this groundbreaking opera.
It’s the primary worldwide manufacturing to be offered on the Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre.
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Composer Matilde Böcher
Böcher graduated from Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen with a level in composition, and from Kunsthögskolan in Malmö – Lund Universitet with one other diploma in superb arts. From her personal bio:
“I’m a composer and conceptual artist, working with music in reference to set up, efficiency and video. On the heart of my compositions is the voice and melody.
“My works have a socially important and existential focus, which I insist on illuminating intimately with openness, sensitivity and vulnerability.”
She has created music for efficiency, opera, theatre, video, and installations, and a number of other of her works have been nominated and awarded prizes, together with LOL – Laughing Out Lonely (2023), Messiah (2019), and Overload (2025). Matilde has been awarded a major working grant from the Danish Arts Basis to proceed her work.
Sound Designer Asger Kudahl
Danish sound designer and composer Asger Kudahl graduated from the Danish Academy of Performing Arts. His specialty tends to be in creating sound for initiatives that embody interactive theatre, web radio, and artwork movies, with a give attention to the performing arts. He’s answerable for the sound design in additional than 40 productions that embody Completed with Eddy (Betty Nansen), Martyrmuseum (Black/White), A Story of Blindness (Århus Theatre), Museum for the Future (Black/White) and The Wall (Betty Nansen). LOL is his first opera.
A former exterior lecturer/guide on the institutioin, Asger took up the place of head of training for sound design on the Danish Academy of Performing Arts in August 2025. He’s additionally a part of the artist collective TOETT.
Countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen
Morten Grove Frandsen is a outstanding counterntenor in Denmark, and made his made his debut at Aarhus Summer time Opera three years earlier than graduating from the Royal Opera Academy in Copenhagen. He was awarded the Copenhagen Opera Pageant’s Expertise Prize in 2015, and in 2016, the yr of his commencement, he acquired each the Critic’s Circle Award and the Reumert Expertise Award.
Morten has labored with Trondheim Opera, Scottish Opera, The Funen Opera, Klang Pageant, Riga Baroque Pageant and the République and Black/White Theatres in Copenhagen. He’s a daily visitor on the Royal Danish Opera. There, he has carried out in Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, Hans Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen (world premiere), David Bruce’s Nothing, Mozart’s Mitridate, Louise Alenius’s Manualen (World premiere) and John Frandsen’s The Martyrdom (world premiere).
He has appeared in 18 world premiere productions, together with Louise Alenius’s immersive opera Silent Zone for Copenhagen Opera Pageant (2017), and Fundal’s Incognito Royal for the Danish Nationwide Opera (2021).
LOL: Laughing Out Lonely
LOL: Laughing Out Lonely makes its Canadian premiere January 16 and 17, 2026 on the Nancy & Ed Jackman Efficiency Centre.
Discover tickets and present particulars [HERE]. https://tapestryopera.com/performances/laughing-out-lonely/
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a inventive writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
