Announcing our 2024 Season!
Opera for All
A free community performance at the Tualatin Public Library. Featuring vocalists Maddy Ross, Emily Way, Abby Krawson, and pianist Jesse Preis.
Orlofsky’s Party
A modern adaptation of Die Fledermaus centering around the wealth and class gaps that exist in our communities today, poking fun at the ridiculousness of opulent wealth, and ultimately bringing home the message that actions have consequences, no matter how rich and powerful you are. In partnership with the NW Children’s Theater!
Black Opera: A Recital
Contralto Jasmine Johnson shares her voice and stories of her experiences as a Black opera singer, a parent, and an arts leader in today’s world. This event is for all ages, families encouraged.
Artists in Conversation Stage(s)
Jesse Preis debut’s The Raven, a chamber opera composed for three voices and piano from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name. In this opera, the narrator (told from their point of view at two different stages in life) deals with emotions tied to the loss of a loved one. We then witness these complicated, painful, and even terrifying emotions become personified through the character of the raven. This work is composed so that there are no specific Fächer tied to these characters - anyone able to sing the part can and should sing them.
Danielle Jagelski presents Little Ones, a libretto reading of a new opera exploring the life of Indigenous students at Native American Residential Schools in the 1980’s. The daughter of a Residential School survivor herself, Jagelski’s work explores Oneida/Ojibwe identity in the face of erasure and expands upon her work with Navajo playwright, Rhiana Yazzie. “Little Ones" is a dark-comedic opera that unfolds in the 1980s, exploring life at a Native American Residential School in rural Utah. In essence, "Little Ones" serves as a tribute to the multifaceted challenges that Indigenous young people faced during the final decade of the US residential school era, and continue to struggle with today.
