{"id":6885,"date":"2025-07-30T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:01:36","slug":"banff-interplay-opera-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=6885","title":{"rendered":"Banff Interplay Opera Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-1024x438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"438\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-1024x438.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-768x329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2-200x86.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff2.jpg 2044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/br>The 2025 <i>Interplay<\/i> program at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity<\/a> showcases young singers and instrumentalists in both opera and chamber music performance. Their July 27th show, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/summer-arts-fest\/music-opera\/karim-al-zand\" target=\"_blank\">An Evening with Karim Al-Zand<\/a>&#8221; followed two weeks of rehearsals and workshops on new scenes, songs and other vocal music. The concert included workshop performances of <i>The Strangers&#8217; Case<\/i>, <i>A Joint Interest<\/i> and two scenes from the forthcoming opera project <i>The Book of Tales<\/i>, plus select solo songs. [<a href=\"https:\/\/classic107.com\/articles\/canadian-american-composer-showcases-interplay-of-genres-in-new-compositions\" target=\"_blank\">Preview<\/a> from Winnipeg&#8217;s Classic 107.] The artists were guided in the workshops by a range of faculty including director Joel Ivany, conductor Sandra Horst and pianist Spencer Kryzanowski.<\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-1536x773.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-2048x1031.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banff-200x101.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Interplay program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity showcases young singers and instrumentalists in both opera and chamber music performance. Their July 27th show, &#8220;An Evening with Karim Al-Zand&#8221; followed two weeks of rehearsals and workshops on new scenes, songs and other vocal music. The concert included workshop performances of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6885"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6900,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6885\/revisions\/6900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}