Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture announce the City of Boston awarded $815,000 in grants to 146 local arts and cultural organizations as part of the Arts and Culture COVID-19 Fund, including Guerilla Opera!
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Boston Singer’s Resource interviews composer Emily Koh about HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera with comments from Co-Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia.
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Our fourteenth season is kicking off with a Bash, the Guerilla Backyard Bash, a virtual backyard gala that offers you an exclusive taste of what we’ve got cooking! Music by Emily Koh, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Kaja Saariaho and more amazing news!
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Guerilla Opera’s fourteenth season is kicking off with a Bash, the Guerilla Backyard Bash, a virtual backyard gala that offers you an exclusive taste of what the Guerillas have got cooking!
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Guerilla Opera Co-Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia and composer Emily Koh join Opera America for Good News Friday, a space to talk about positive change, to share good news from the field, and enjoy a chat with friends and colleagues.
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Guerilla Opera received an award from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers: Commissioning Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation to support composer Emily Koh’s first evening length opera, HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera!
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On July 16, 2020 OPERA America announced that composer Emily Kohand Guerilla Opera received an award from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers: Commissioning Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. This award is to directly commission the creation and support the premiere of her first evening length opera, HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera.
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Guerilla Opera’s thirteenth season of live performances ended as soon as it began, but the company has been all but silent. Here are their most recent upcoming events, new initiatives they’ve launched and ways to interact with the Guerillas that are truly interactive.
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In this inaugural episode, Keturah speaks with Brenda Huggins, the Director of Engagement Programs at Guerilla Opera in Boston.
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This summer, we’re gathering virtually to explore script writing for opera in a supportive creative community to experiment with the many approaches to bringing stories to the stage through voice and music. This Lab will discuss the ensemble’s vibrant and unique repertoire with the librettists and composers who created them in an intimate examination of the creation process.
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We shifted some things around, but now our June offerings are set. They begin this week!
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Workshop postponed to participate in a peaceful protest in Haverhill marching from the Trinity Stadium (12:30 pm) to the PD station. This is a continued effort, and although we are all getting back to our scheduled programs, let us keep this in the forefront of our minds.
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Words cannot begin to adequately express the deep emotion our entire ensemble feels right now as we witness the continued injustice, racism and violence against Black people in America. As individuals, we must not sit on the sidelines when faced with injustice. There are things that each and every one of us can do – today and every day – to raise awareness and become an active part of the solution. We ask you to act.
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At the Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University on Saturday night, local artist-run company Guerilla Opera stripped down to the bare essentials to live-stream its Emergence Composer Fellowship Showcase of five new short operas. A grand total of 20 people were allowed into the building’s recital hall, which seats roughly 200: a six-person ensemble, some of the featured composers, and a small tech team. Co-artistic directors Aliana de la Guardia and Julia Noulin-Mérat jumped into action as stage crew and managers, and did their best to keep the company’s spirits up.
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Guerilla Opera cancelled the rest of its thirteen season, supporting the health and safety of its artists amidst the COVID-19 outbreak and restrictions, with the following statement from its Artistic Directors Aliana de la Guardia and Julia Noulin-Mérat.
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer reviews our inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship.
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The Guerillas have asked enough of their generous and badass ensemble this season and have decided that the most responsible thing to do is to cancel the rest of it for health and safety purposes surrounding COVID-19.
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Guerilla Opera’s season starts Saturday, March 14, 2020! Experience a showcase of five world premiere one-act operas written by composers from Guerilla Opera’s inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship
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Guerilla Opera will perform Rumpelstiltskin in a free concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, March 16. Rumpelstiltskin features music and libretto by Marti Epstein and original shadow puppetry animation by Iranian animator and theater artist Deniz Khateri.
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Guerilla Opera’s season starts Saturday, March 14, 2020! Experience a showcase of five world premiere one-act operas written by composers from Guerilla Opera’s inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship in Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham. Featured composers and librettists include: Leah Reid, Caroline Louise Miller, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) and Mina Salehpour (librettist), Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, and Niko Yamamoto and Athanasia Giannetos (librettist).
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