Watch & Listen to our Performers & Composers in Action!
Space Station 189: a sci-fi opera for Instagram by JL Marlor and Aiden Feltkamp. Performed by Lisa Neher and Portland Percussion Group with electronic music and mixing by JL Marlor.
New Wave Opera composer Kimberly Osberg's piece Something About Isolation, commissioned and performed by soprano Stephanie Lamprea as part of the Commissions from Quarantine project in 2020.
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New Wave Opera secretary and soprano Lindsey Rae Johnson and colleagues perform a concert of art songs and opera excerpts by living Portland-area composers in November 2023, sponsored by RACC.
New Wave Opera singers Lisa Neher and Lindsey Rae Johnson sing Lisa's duet, How Doth the Little Crocodile? (poetry by Lewis Carrol) with Dianne Davies at the piano.
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New Wave Opera President Lisa Neher, mezzo-soprano, performs Oh, those faces! from Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. In this aria, the Secretary, who is the face of the cold and uncaring consulate bureaucracy for most of the opera, closes up the office and is haunted by the faces of all the people who come to her seeking help.
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New Wave Opera President Lisa Neher, mezzo-soprano, performs From Ashes She Became from Four Songs of Nikita Gill by Melissa Dunphy and Nikita Gill. This piece explores finding strength after burnout from a uniquely female perspective.
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Opera Elect's filmed world premiere performance of Sense of Self, a chamber opera by Lisa Neher and Kendra Preston Leonard. Coach Naomi is training triathlete Maya for her next event, but Maya is thwarted by a breast cancer diagnosis and the choice of what treatment options to pursue.
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New Wave Opera singers Lisa Neher and Lindsey Rae Johnson perform a duet from Sense of Self. This opera, written by Lisa Neher (music) and Kendra Preston Leonard (libretto), follows a triathlete facing a breast cancer diagnosis and her coach who tries to help her make tough decisions.
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