Cara Consilvio, who will direct I Give You My Home (Beth Wiemann, composer/librettist) for Guerilla Opera is one of nine opera company to receive the 2022 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors.
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Guerilla Opera continues the 2022 season of The Guerilla Underground on February 11, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT with the first “Official Selection of The Guerilla Underground”, The Cellos’ Dialogue, an Un-آن Theatre Ensemble production.
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In its 15th season, the group is creating new connections with opera composers, performers, and fans with expanded virtual programming
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An interesting conversation with Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director about the Guerilla Underground with the Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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Guerilla Opera begins its 15th-anniversary celebration “Guerilla Underground” tonight with Deniz Khateri’s animated version of Marti Epstein’s Rumpelstiltskin. Originally commissioned in 2008 by the Guerillas, Epstein’s chamber opera made for a thoughtful and haunting online take on the Brothers Grimm’s folk tale.
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On January 7th at 8:00 PM Boston’s Guerilla Opera will premiere “Rumpelstiltskin,” an animated film reimagination of the classic fairy tale. Friday, January 14th marks the album release of RUMPELSTILTSKIN from Navona Records, where Epstein's reimagination of the classic story and Guerilla Opera’s world class performance will be available to stream everywhere.
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Guerilla Opera is proud to announce the winners who will be included as Official Selections in The Guerilla Underground 2022 Season: The Colony (Anna Lindemann), The Cello’s Dialogue (UN-آن THEATRE ENSEMBLE), Populus tremuloides: "Quaking Aspen" by Jason Eckardt (Stephanie Lamprea), Interim (Sarah Grace Graves), and she wears bells (Jo Reyes-Boitel & feat. Teatro Palo Alto).
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In their 15th Anniversary Season, the Guerillas of Boston join the Museum of Science on its popular series, SubSpace. Guerilla Opera’s FRACTURED is a performance exhibition of two works by composers Anahita Abassi and Bahar Royai exploring themes of fractured experiences.
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Guerilla Opera is thrilled to announce the 2022 season of The Guerilla Underground, a virtual speakeasy experience and performance series that explores the “operatic” with streaming and video on demand options and After Parties with artist Q&A, games and giveaways.
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In their 15th Anniversary Season, the Guerillas of Boston join the Museum of Science on its popular series, SubSpace. Guerilla Opera’s FRACTURED is a performance exhibition of two works by composers Anahita Abassi and Bahar Royai exploring themes of fractured experiences.
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In their 15th Anniversary Season, the Guerillas of Boston reopen The Guerilla Underground as a curated series of monthly virtual concerts and are inviting members of their community to participate in an online Call For Videos.
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At the opening of their 15th Anniversary Season, Guerilla Opera presents a live production of ELLIS, a world premiere multimedia and immersive opera, composed and with electronic sound design by Gabriele Vanoni, libretto by Ewa Chrusciel, and with video installation and stage direction by Laine Rettmer.
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Nimble, resourceful, and transformative, the Guerillas of Boston celebrate their 15th Anniversary Season with live world premiere productions and virtual streaming performances, offering audiences unique access to never before seen works in a whole new light!
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Join us in welcoming Alexis Peart (Development & marketing Coordinator) and Maggi Chauby (Artistic Associate). Both these fantastic collaborators are budding artist-producers and bring so much unique skill and enthusiasm to this ensemble.
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Guerilla Opera is pleased to announce that they have been selected to participate in the 2021 Live Arts Boston cohort. This award will support "I Give You My Home: The Rose Standish Nichols Story", a site specific chamber opera inspired by the life of Rose Standish Nichols and in collaboration with the Nichols House Museum in Boston.
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Guerilla Opera composer, Tina Tallon, awarded 2021-2022 Rome Prize Winner
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Guerilla Opera has been awarded two grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council and Mass Humanities.
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Her project “SHRILL” is being written for Guerilla Opera.
Tina Tallon was recently announced as one of the winners of the 2021-2022 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly ambitious and competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the gift of “time and space to think and work” was awarded to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars. Each winner will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome, starting in September 2021.
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On the topic of being a woman in the arts
de la Guardia admitted that women do have to work twice as hard in the industry. “It’s not fair, but it’s the reality. You have to work twice as hard to be seen, and twice as hard to have your work respected. And I hope that will change,” she said. She highlighted that being a woman in the industry means that you also have to have a strong support system behind you. “Think of yourself as more than an artist; you are a business person, and you are your own business. And in order to be artistic, you also have to have the mind of an administrator.”
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Guerilla Opera redefines the opera experience.
GUERILLA OPERA RELISHES confrontation and upending conventions. Founded in Boston in 2007, the company has no conductor, chorus or orchestra. The pieces it commissions, which never exceed ninety minutes and are often closer to ten, feature no more than four instruments and four singers. In some instances, they have no vocal music at all. Whether their productions should even be called operas was once discussed within the group.
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