THE QUEEN IN ME – on tour

by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野

A Nightwood Theatre, Amplified Opera, Canadian Opera Company, and Theatre Gargantua co-production

Created and Performed by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野
Co-Directed by Andrea Donaldson & Aria Umezawa 

2025 – 2026 West Coast tour

Combining comedy, drama, and opera, The Queen In Me is a tour de force created and performed by Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野.  One of Canada’s most exciting and innovative sopranos, Teiya Kasahara (they/he) takes the stage as one of opera’s most famously complex characters, the Queen of the Night. But the character interrupts their normal performance of vengeance-via-vocal-pyrotechnics to look back at what Mozart has made of her in The Magic Flute. From there, the audience becomes part of the show as they meet characters from Puccini’s La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Manon Lescaut; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor; Verdi’s Macbeth and Rigoletto; and R. Strauss’ Salome. Each character delves further into what opera has historically demanded of its women, both as characters and the artists who portray them.

Approximate run time: 75 minutes.