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The opera Barnardo Boys, with music by Clifford Crawley and libretto by David Helwig, was premiered in Kingston, Ontario in May 1982. Inspired by the example of Benjamin Britten, the creators of the opera regarded community involvement and cooperation between amateurs and professionals as essential to the production of the work. There was only one imported professional singer in the cast—Jan Rubes, who was hired to play the lead role of Albert Ashby. Both the libretto and the music of the opera make use of a combination of pre-existing and newly created source materials. This approach is seen to be typical of a Canadian preference for the genre of documentary opera, which parallels an engagement with historical fiction on the part of Canadian novelists.
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La première de Barnardo Boys, sur une musique de Clifford Crawley, d’après un livret de David Helwig, a eu lieu à Kingston (Ontario) en mai 1982. Inspirés par la démarche de Benjamin Britten, les créateurs de cet opéra considèrent essentielles à la production de l’oeuvre l’implication dans la communauté et la coopération entre amateurs et professionnels. On ne trouvait dans la distribution qu’un chanteur professionnel provenant de l’extérieur : Jan Rubes, engagé pour jouer le rôle principal de Albert Ashby. Le livret et la musique de l’opéra font tous deux appels à un mélange de matériaux préexistants et nouveaux. Cette approche est considérée comme étant typique d’une préférence canadienne pour le genre de l’opéra documentaire, pendant musical de l’implication des romanciers canadiens dans l’écriture de fiction historique.
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