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    New Python, Egoyan works planned for Toronto festival

    CBC Montreal, Canada
    July 31, 2006

    New works by Spamalot creator Eric Idle and filmmaker Atom Egoyan will
    be on the bill during a new festival scheduled for Toronto next June.

    The Toronto Festival of Arts, dubbed Luminato, is being planned as a
    16-day showcase of arts and creativity with events at cultural venues
    around the city.

    Some details of the $10-million event were released on Monday.

    Idle and John du Prez are creating an oratorio with music and lyrics
    based on Monty Python's Life of Brian. The world premiere of Not the
    Messiah will be performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with a
    narrator, soloists and choir.

    Grammy winner Idle described the new work as "funnier than Handel,
    though not as good."

    Egoyan, director of Where the Truth Lies and The Sweet Hereafter,
    will be working with artist Kutlug Ataman on a multimedia installation
    at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

    The Armenian filmmaker and the Turkish artist say they found
    "commonalities" in one another's work when they met last year.

    Ontario's provincial government has pledged $2 million toward the
    event, being planned by the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

    The city of Toronto also has been supportive of the new festival,
    but no money has yet come from Ottawa.

    While Toronto is home to dozens of festivals throughout the year,
    this festival is seen as a larger event that will draw artists from
    Canada and around the world.

    Music, theatre, dance, visual arts, film, design and literature will
    all be part of the Luminata festival, which coincides with the opening
    of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, a massive renovation at the Royal
    Ontario Museum.

    Atom Egoyan is working on a multimedia installation with Turkish
    artist Kutlug Ataman. Festival organizers have hired a high-profile
    chief executive with an international reputation to run the event.

    Janice Price is former president of the Kimmel Center for the
    Performing Arts in Philadelphia and former vice-president of market
    at the Lincoln Center in New York.

    The festival will take place at the Young Centre, in the Distillery
    District, at Harbourfront and at dozens of other cultural institutions
    around the city.

    It will close with an international carnival featuring parades and
    carnival acts from around the world.

    Luminata is scheduled for June 1-10, 2007.
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