October 30, 2020 at 8:00PM EDT

Streaming free on Facebook, Youtube, HC Media website and Haverhill Public Access Channel 22

Live in studio performance at HC Media at Harbor Place, Haverhill, MA

Guerilla Opera, in collaboration with HC Media, joins the opening weekend Boston New Music Festival with a live studio performance of Dreamwalker, a world premiere exhibition of two revival works by composers Kaija Saariaho and Caroline Louise Miller exploring themes of life and transformation that will expand the definition of opera in surprising ways!

Papillon: a story of flight, freedom and transformation

A folkloric tale of a Cuban refugee danced through the metaphor of an ever-changing butterfly, featuring animation and direction by Deniz Khateri and Kaija Saariaho's Sept Papillons performed by Stephen Marotto, cello and Aliana de la Guardia.

Ofelia’s Life Dream: a psychedelic tale of life and death

A delirious poet travels dream worlds transforming into mysterious bioluminescent fungi, moths that drink tears of sleeping birds, and giant self-destructing palm trees, with music and libretto by Caroline Louise Miller, direction by Laine Rettmer and performed by Aliana de la Guardia.