Really Spicy Opera Aria InstituteJuly 12, 2024
New Wave Opera singers and pianists perform arias in progress by composers and librettists in Really Spicy Opera's Aria Institute. Image: Really Spicy Opera |
Summer SplashSaturday, July 27 2024, 2:00 pm
SE Portland New Wave Opera presents Summer Splash, an All-Ages Backyard Concert of opera arias, duets, and art songs by living composers! Sip on lemonade and enjoy summer snacks in a casual backyard venue in Sellwood-Moreland while our artists perform tuneful, funny, and sweet songs about fish, sneaky squirrels, friendship, and family. Coloring supplies provided for children & adults! |
Night of the Living OperaMonday, October 21 and Wednesday, October 23, 2024
5 pm - Midnight Raven's Manor, 235 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR $10 Cover Ages 21+ It's alive! Night of the Living Opera is an evening of creepy contemporary operas in English that are the perfect way to get in the mood for Spooky Season! Enter a world of witches, murderers, and artists gone mad in a nightlife venue with food and drinks. Featuring: Serial Killers and the City by Del’Shawn Taylor and Joanie Brittingham: in this parody of Sex and the City, a group of stylish girlfriends get together to swap stories about their latest murders over Bloody Mary’s and Charcuterie boards. But things get tense when FBI Agent Small unexpectedly joins them for brunch! The Oval Portrait by Felix Jarrar: based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, a painter slowly falls into a drug-induced madness. Thump! by Portland composer Kimberly Osberg: based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic classic The Tell-Tale Heart, this psychodrama explores the psyche of a multifaceted narrator who has committed an unspeakable crime, as well as their relationship to their victim. A chilling tale of loss, resentment, and guilt. she conjures by Portland composer Lisa Neher and Bea Goodwin: in this feminist tale of witches, crows, curses, revenge, and redemption, Grissall, the daughter of the last witch burned in Scotland, seeks justice with the help of her mother’s feathered familiar, Caraid. Scottish folk music infuses this mysterious and haunting story. |