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Article: The creation of Ines (3); Queen on Puddings sets the cast and finds a new leading lady in Lisbon.(New Productions New Roles)
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- September 1, 2008
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Immediately after last May's five-day workshop of Ines, Toronto-based Queen of Puddings Music Theatre's new opera from composer James Rolfe and librettist Paul Bentley, the creative team held a post-mortem to assess progress. QofP co-artistic directors Dairine Ni Mheadhra and John Hess sat with Rolfe and stage director Jennifer Tarver in Toronto, while the London, England-based bentley, who had a CD of the complete run-through of the piece that concluded the workshop, contributed online.
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Overall, everyone was positive, and the result happily confirmed plans to stage they world premiere next February in Toronto. Some fine-tuning of ...