An exploration of the dramatic dialogue found in contemporary music performance. A music theatre spectacle comprised of: Grave Inscription 1,868 – WOLFGANG RIHM Calligramme (il pleut) – ROBERT ZUIDAM Pilinszky Songs – GYÖRGY KURTÁG Laconisme de l’Aile – KAIJA SAARIAHO Son of Frankenstein – SEAN FERGUSON Puksånger Lockrop – KARIN REHNQVIST Director – ALISA PALMER Designer – DANY LYNE Lighting – PAUL MATHIESEN Forces: 3 SINGERS, 5 INSTRUMENTALISTS “There’s nothing goopy about this Queen of Puddings. In fact, the QOP’s forte is chamber music that zigs then Zeitgeists; where theatrical magic comes close to madness, one moment allowing you to luxuriate in the sheer inventiveness of it all only then to suddenly kick you out into the fast-track of one extreme notion or another.”       The Toronto Star “Queen of Puddings ... is anything but traditional. It starts with a large serving of contemporary classical music, then adds a heavy dollop of theatre – sets, movement, costumes, even the suggestion of narrative – to music that would ordinarily be presented in a formal concert setting. The final pudding is almost – but not quite – opera. Betty Crocker, stand back.”       The Globe and Mail