ABOUT
The Pine Mountain Music Festival presents Guerilla Opera in a concert of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, a new opera by composer Elena Ruehr and Pulitzer-prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek.
Based on the New York Times best-selling graphic novel by Sydney Padua, this is the concert version of the comedic new work. It centers on scientists Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the real-life unsung inventors of the first computer, fighting crime in alternate universes with their new invention.
Ada Lovelace was a mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first-ever appearance of general computing theory. Lovelace was the first great genius to develop a programming language, and she is still not generally known. Charles Babbage was the eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer if he had ever finished it.
DATES/TIMES
Friday, June 16, 2023, 5PM
Saturday, June 17, 2023, 7:30PM
Performances are sung in English and are approximately 70 min in duration. The theater is ADA Accessible.
LOCATION
Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, 1400 Townsend Dr, Houghton, MI 49931
ADMISSION
$5.00-$50.00 - Pay What You Will
Please contact the Michigan Tech Central Ticket Office at (906) 487-2073 or tickets@mtu.edu with any questions or for assistance.
PERFORMING ENSEMBLE
Aliana de la Guardia, soprano as Ada Lovelace
Aaron Engebreth, baritone as Charles Babbage
Erin Matthews, soprano as Queen Victoria and various roles
Omar Najimi, tenor as Minion and various roles
Lilit Hartunian, Violin
Rane Moore, Clarinet
Stephen Marotto, Cello
Mike Williams, Percussion
Original illustrations created for Guerilla Opera by Sydney Padua.
SUPPORT AND AWARDS
The development of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage has been supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency, and by a grant from the Center for Arts Science and Technology at MIT.
