KICKING OFF OUR 14TH SEASON WITH A BASH!
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! The Bash is being hosted on Friday, August 21, 2020 @ 7pm EST and Saturday, August 22, 2020 @ 3pm EST online by RSVP only. Purchase a Zoom link for you and your household for $75.00 or add a friend to the guest list from anywhere for $112.50 to attend together! RSVP online at guerillaopera.org/backyardbash!
In our biggest virtual event since COVID hit we’re featuring the Guerilla All Stars you know and love, new collaborators from around the country, new music, new opera, theatrical experimentation, and wild imagination! We also have something new to reveal, but won't reveal it until the party!
Byte and Kilobyte for solo violin
Music by Emily Koh and performed by Lilit Hartunian, violin. Emily Koh recently received Commissioning Grant for Female Composers from OPERA America and will be writing her first evening length opera, HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera for Guerilla Opera to be premiered in 2023.
A Dead Body, a chamber opera
Excerpts of music by Mischa Salkind-Pearl, libretto Franny Zhang and performed by Guerilla All Stars. This haunting psychological, sci-fi drama is the next Guerilla opera slated to premiere.
Papillon
Featuring Sept Papillons for solo cello Kaija Saariaho, animation and direction by Deniz Khateri and performed by Aliana de la Guardia, actor and Stephen Marotto, cello. Papillon is a multicultural theatrical experiment exploring how we perceive music through culture and heritage inherited in the body! It features animation and direction by Iranian theater artist and animator Deniz Khateri with Cuban dance-inspired shadow theater by Aliana de la Guardia on top of Kaija Saariaho's ephemeral Sept Papillons by Stephen Marotto.