Guerilla Opera
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Guerilla Opera is an opera
company in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in accessible contemporary chamber opera
s, several of which have been commissioned by the company. As of 2010 its Artistic Directors are Mike Williams and Rudolf Rojahn
, its General Manager is Aliana de la Guardia and its director of design and production is Julia Noulin-Mérat. Guerilla Opera performs in the Zack Box Theater at The Boston Conservatory where it is a resident ensemble.
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
company in Boston, Massachusetts specializing in accessible contemporary chamber opera
Chamber opera
Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.The term and form were invented by Benjamin Britten in the 1940s, when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in a variety of small...
s, several of which have been commissioned by the company. As of 2010 its Artistic Directors are Mike Williams and Rudolf Rojahn
Rudolf Rojahn
Rudolf Rojahn is a Boston-based composer of classical music.Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the...
, its General Manager is Aliana de la Guardia and its director of design and production is Julia Noulin-Mérat. Guerilla Opera performs in the Zack Box Theater at The Boston Conservatory where it is a resident ensemble.
Productions
- September 2007.
- Heart of a Dog by Rudolf RojahnRudolf RojahnRudolf Rojahn is a Boston-based composer of classical music.Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the...
(adapted from the novella, Heart of a DogHeart of a DogHeart of a Dog , a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, is a biting satire of the New Soviet man written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when Communism appeared to be weakening in the Soviet Union....
by Mikhail BulgakovMikhail BulgakovMikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
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- Heart of a Dog by Rudolf Rojahn
- April 2008
- No ExitNo Exit (opera)No Exit is a one-act chamber opera by Andy Vores based on the 1944 existentialist play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The opera was written for Boston's Guerilla Opera and had its world premiere, directed by Sally Stunkel, on April 24, 2008, at the Boston Conservatory's Zack Box Theatre...
by Andy VoresAndy VoresAndy Vores is a Welsh classical music and opera composer. He has lived in the United States since 1986 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.-Education:Vores studied composition at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England...
(adapted from the play, No ExitNo ExitNo Exit is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre. The original French title is Huis Clos, the French equivalent of the legal term in camera, referring to a private discussion behind closed doors; English translations have also been performed under the titles In Camera, No Way Out...
, by Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
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- No Exit
- September 2008
- We Are Sons by Rudolf RojahnRudolf RojahnRudolf Rojahn is a Boston-based composer of classical music.Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the...
(to an original librettoLibrettoA libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
by Rojahn )
- We Are Sons by Rudolf Rojahn
- May 2009
- Rumpelstiltskin by Marti Epstein (adapted from the Brothers GrimmBrothers GrimmThe Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...
story, RumpelstiltskinRumpelstiltskinRumpelstiltskin is the eponymous character and protagonist of a fairy tale which originated in Germany . The tale was collected by the Brothers Grimm, who first published it in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales...
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- Rumpelstiltskin by Marti Epstein (adapted from the Brothers Grimm
- September 2009
- Say It Ain't So, JoeSay it Ain't So, JoeSay It Ain't So, Joe is a chamber opera in two acts by Curtis K. Hughes inspired by text drawn from the public record of the 2008 United States vice-presidential debate...
by Curtis K. Hughes (adapted from public records of the 2008 United States vice-presidential debateUnited States vice-presidential debate, 2008The 2008 United States vice-presidential debate, took place on October 2, 2008, between U.S. vice-presidential candidates Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, and Joe Biden, the senior Senator for Delaware, at Washington University in St. Louis, and was moderated by Public Broadcasting Service...
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- Say It Ain't So, Joe
- September 2010
- Heart of a Dog by Rudolf RojahnRudolf RojahnRudolf Rojahn is a Boston-based composer of classical music.Rojahn was awarded the Roger Sessions Award for composition upon graduation from Boston Conservatory with a Master of Music in Composition in 2004. His music has been featured at The Boston Conservatory's New Music Week. He has been the...
(adapted from the novella by Mikhail Bulgakov)
- Heart of a Dog by Rudolf Rojahn