Length / Year
120' / 1986-90

Reviews
" An absorbing, thought-provoking and very approachable new opera "
Rodney Milnes - Financial Times

" Metcalf's engaging score adds Inuit Throat singing and other extended vocal sounds to an evocative pallette . . . ."
Times Educational Supplement

" The two-act opera revealed a score whose musical vocabulary is imaginative . . . often vividly expressive and modern,without being shockingly radical . . . Tornrak was a remarkable achievement"
Harvey Chusid - Opera Canada

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Performance History
World Preview Performances
Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
23rd & 24th February 1990

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