Guerilla Opera is pleased to announce it has received a $15,000 grant from the Staffing the Humanities initiative from Mass Humanities. Alongside Guerilla Opera, Mass Humanities announced grants to eleven organizations with humanities programs.
Read MoreJoin us in supporting the Arlekin Players' #Artists4Ukraine to help Ukrainian refugees! Our neighbors, the local theater ensemble of Arlekin Players, is composed of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants to the US. When the war in Ukraine began they were mobilized to help the refugees. Please donate, share, repost and follow the Arlekin Players to keep up with their efforts and to make an impact as a community by providing vital support to as many refugees as possible!
Read MoreAliana de la Guardia of Guerilla Opera is one of twelve artists, nonprofit and municipal heads who will spend the next eight months immersed in facilitated and project-based learning, peer networking, and leadership trainings, all designed to support a new network of creative civic leaders with the knowledge and skills to help build a more inclusive and sustainable arts and culture ecosystem in Essex County.
Read MoreArtistic Director, Aliana de la Guardia and Guerilla opera were selected to the 2022 Nonprofit Learning Institute cohort, presented by Bank of America and Philanthropy Massachusetts. This competitive program that selects only 20 nonprofit organizations from a broad cross-section of the nonprofit sector in MA each year.
Read MoreAliana de la Guardia, classical vocalist and artistic director for Guerilla Opera, recently joined PARMA's Sara Warner to talk about the ensemble and their new album RUMPELSTILTSKIN on Navona Records.
Read MoreCara 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.
Read MoreIn its 15th season, the group is creating new connections with opera composers, performers, and fans with expanded virtual programming
Read MoreAn interesting conversation with Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director about the Guerilla Underground with the Boston Musical Intelligencer.
Read MoreGuerilla 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.
Read MoreGuerilla 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).
Read MoreGuerilla 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.
Read MoreJoin 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.
Read MoreTina 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.
Read Morede 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.”
Read MoreGUERILLA 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.
Read MoreGuerilla Opera’s Board of Directors and Ensemble are pleased to announce Aliana de la Guardia as sole Artistic Director effective February 8, 2021.
Read MoreWe have been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the world premiere of Island of Hope, Island of Tears with music by Boston-based composer Gabriele Vanoni, libretto by Eva Chrusciel and in collaboration with stage director and video artist Laine Rettmer.
Read MoreWe have incredible news to share! Co-Artistic Director, Julia Noulin-Mérat has recently been appointed General Manager and CEO of Opera Columbus! Her years of experience in opera design, interpretation of traditional repertoire, new work development and cultivating leadership skills has all been leading to this. This is an incredible achievement and we're so happy for her!
Read MoreCindy Hennon Marino met Julia Noulin-Mérat a few years ago at an OPERA America conference. Here they talk about life, career, opera and theater!
Read MoreAlley Stoughton of Not Brahms and Liszt show interviewed co-artistic director Aliana de la Guardia about the Guerilla Underground as well as playing some clips!
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