Nigredo Hotel is a chamber opera by librettist Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....

 and composer Nic Gotham. The dark comedy is about a doctor who arrives at a hotel after he may or may not have killed someone on the highway. The opera includes only two characters, the doctor and the concierge of the hotel, who appears in various guises.

The libretto playfully evokes the theories of Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...

. First produced by Tapestry New Opera Works

Tapestry New Opera Works

Tapestry new opera works is a Canadian opera company, located in Toronto, Ontario in the Distillery Historic District.The company was founded in 1979 by artistic director Wayne Strongman, who was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009...

in 1992.