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Topher Mokrzewski on #UncleJohn
InterviewTopher Mokrzewski is a man of many hats. As Music Director of Against the Grain Theatre, he has been the musical mind behind most of AtG Theatre's projects, including the Dora Award-winning Figaro's Wedding. Topher recently wrapped up a season as Calgary Opera's Resident Conductor, and his next stop is the Banff Centre for the Arts, for the inevitable #UncleJohn.

Meet the cast of Crush: Sam
InterviewToronto-based baritone Clarence Frazer heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, to sing Sam in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

AtG in Banff, 2015
EditorialThis summer at the beautiful Banff Centre, Against the Grain Theatre and the Canadian Opera Company collaborate for the second consecutive year, with Open Space: Opera in the 21st Century. This year, they'll put up two shows, one of which is A Little Too Cozy. The third in his transladaptations of the Mozart/Da Ponte operas (Figaro's Wedding, #UncleJohn), AtG Artistic Director Joel Ivany writes an original libretto to Mozart's Così fan tutte.

Meet the cast of Crush: Donna
InterviewToronto-based soprano Simone McIntosh heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, singing Donna in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

Meet the cast of Crush: Anna
InterviewSoprano Samantha Pickett heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, to sing Anna in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

Meet the cast of Crush: Otto
Montréal-based tenor Pasquale D'Alessio heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, to sing Otto in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

Meet the cast of Crush: Lola
InterviewOttawa-born soprano Ellen McAteer heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, singing Lola in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

Meet the cast of Crush: Matt
InterviewMontréal-based baritone Bruno Roy heads to The Banff Centre this summer to work with Against the Grain Theatre, singing Matt in their workshop of Crush, a new opera by James Rolfe (composer) and Anna Chatterton (librettist).

Meet the cast of A Little Too Cozy: Guglielmo
InterviewBaritone Brent Calis is based in Montréal, and is excited to head to the Banff Centre this summer to make his Against the Grain Theatre debut as Guglielmo in A Little Too Cozy (libretto by Joel Ivany, music by Mozart).

Meet the cast of A Little Too Cozy: Ferrando
InterviewNewfoundland-born tenor Aaron Sheppard is heading to the Banff Centre this summer, to sing Ferrando in [Against the Grain Theatre](http://againstthegraintheatre.com/)'s A Little Too Cozy (libretto by Joel Ivany, music by Mozart).