A Spanish Hour? reimagines French one-act opera with a playful queer lens
An all-out cast helps bring to life, UBC Associate Professor J. Patrick Raftery’s vision for the story of rotating affairs, all set on a Toronto patio.
Pride Special: Presenting authentically, without fear by Vancouver Opera
We are thrilled to share this wonderful conversation with Vancouver Opera and Baritone and UBC Professor, J. Patrick Raftery, and Canadian Tenor, Spencer Britten (BMus ’15, MMus ’17). /Credit: Vancouver Opera. Photos: J. Patrick Raftery (By Karolina Turek) and Spencer Britten (By Jeremy Knowles Photography)
Production featuring exclusively 2SLGBTQ+ artists receives grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council
“A Spanish Hour?” is a Queer-English reimagining of Maurice Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole”, a one-act comédie musicale from 1911, directed by UBC School of Music Associate Professor J. Patrick Raftery, who also co-wrote the English libretto with dramaturge Peter Tiefenbach.
Meet Your Professor: J. Patrick Raftery, Assistant Professor of Voice
Introduce yourself in 280 characters or less “Singer and Voice Teacher, Flâneur and World Traveler” “Facilitator of musicians of the future!” What courses do you teach? This year I’m teaching Voice Studio and MUSC 537C (Seminar in Opera Literature). How would you describe your approach to teaching music? What do you enjoy the most about teaching? […]