From Nightswimming (These Are The Songs I Sing When I’m Sad, Tarragon Greenhouse Festival) comes a trio about trios. Join Neema Bickersteth, Jane Miller and Taurian Teelucksingh for an intimate and uplifting evening as they swap stories and songs about their struggles and triumphs as singers, and the mystery of The Wolf in the Voice.

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The Wolf in the Voice

Tarragon Theatre

Originally written by Scott Joplin, Treemonisha (c. 1911) is one of the few classical music pieces about the immediate post-slavery era written by a Black person who actually lived through it.

Reimagining Opera Through Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: A Black Feminist Conversation

University of Toronto

It is the late 1880s in the Deep South. A people are divided against themselves. A group of upwardly mobile Freedmen are now running a plantation near Texarkana. They are striving to become an essential part of an emerging new America.

Neema Bickersteth

Events

Upcoming events

21 - 27 Nov, 2026

Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha · Manitoba Opera

Past events

4 - 23 Feb, 2025

The Wolf in the Voice · Tarragon Theatre

Apr 1, 2023

Reimagining Opera Through Scott Joplin's Treemonisha: A Black Feminist Conversation · University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Future and recently performed repertoire

Treemonisha in Treemonisha by Joplin

Manitoba Opera

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