Llandovery Castle a Opera Workshop Toronto Ontario

[John Gilinsky]

Several years ago I spent years researching the history of the sinking and aftermath especially legally of the Llandovery Castle on June 27 1918.  Today I found that local Torontonians have spent the past few years researching, writing, composing, performing an opera based on this very incident.  Here is their promotional video currently on Youtube, viz.:

 

 

The bulk of the victims were of course British ship's crew.  On June 26 and June 27, 2018 this small group of performers put on a performance in a Church which commemorates one of the 14 nurses who was a victim when the hospital ship sank, viz. 

 

Composer Stephanie Martin's interest in the Llandovery Castle story began in 2015 at a rehearsal for another project. Although she had worked as organist at Toronto's Calvin Presbyterian Church for over a decade, she had never noticed a plaque on the church wall and its dedication to one of the Llandovery Castle nurses, Mary Agnes McKenzie. The June performances of the opera will take place in this same church, just meters from the plaque.

 

Here is the organizers main website as well:

https://www.llandoverycastle.ca/