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The Spectre of Louis Riel: Opera, Archive, and the Silent Witness

Author(s) -

Sorouja Moll

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

canadian theatre review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 1920-941X

pISSN - 0315-0836

DOI - 10.3138/ctr.174.010

Subject(s) - opera , witness , performance art , art history , art , subject (documents) , history , colonialism , humanities , political science , law , library science , archaeology , computer science

“The Spectre of Louis Riel: Opera, Archive, and the Silent Witness” is a critical review of the Canadian Opera Company’s (COC) 2017 revival of Mavor Moore and Harry Somers’s 1967 production Louis Riel. The essay considers director Peter Hinton’s prompt for audiences to “question why we need to keep re-telling our history” by further questioning the COC’s use of Louis Riel as its subject when commemorating Canada and its use of the production’s original colonial structure in an attempt to demonstrate the concept of reconciliation.

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