“Full of rich, surrealist allusions and haunting music”
Opera Unbound
April 2026
The Fox is an eerie and deeply nuanced new chamber opera, sung in English with a fantastically dramatic score. Based on the novella by D.H. Lawrence, it revolves around two women who run an isolated farm in the wake of WWI and the Spanish Flu, and the unsettling young soldier who comes to stay. The opera is by Vancouver-based composer Roan Shankaruk. This will be its staged premiere.
Composed by Roan Shankaruk
Directed by Christopher Lam
Music direction by Perri Lo
Art direction by Jessica Wynn Cole
Role: Nellie March