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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Boston, MA (December 17, 2021) - Guerilla Opera is thrilled to announce the 2022 season of The Guerilla Underground, a virtual speakeasy experience and performance series that explores the “operatic”.

The Guerilla Underground offers monthly live streams and video on demand options that can include encore broadcasts from live performances, new works interpreted through the mediums of film and animation, invigorating musical concerts, and previews of works in development for both stage and screen. Each live stream event is directly followed by an After Party with artist Q&A, games and giveaways!

In addition to the best of Guerilla Opera’s most recent productions, the company will present “Official Selections” from an inaugural Call-for-Videos. Guerilla Opera asked for cutting-edge work that investigates and explores themes that are “operatic” and that features musical compositions from 1975 or later and artists and/or creators that identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, or other underrepresented groups.

Artists from all over the world submitted video performances to be featured in The Guerilla Underground 2022 Season.

The submissions were adjudicated Emily Koh (composer), Lilit Harunian (violinist and ensemble member, Guerilla Opera), Geovonday Jones (director), Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) (composer), Mike Williams (percussionist, co-founder and ensemble member, Guerilla Opera), and Kristen Hoskins (producer), and with Aliana de la Guardia (Artistic Director, Guerilla Opera) making the final selections.

Guerilla Opera is proud to present The Guerilla Underground 2022 Season:

Guerilla Opera's Rumpelstiltskin by Marti Epstein
On January 14, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT Guerilla Opera offers an extended run of the world premiere animated film by Deniz Khateri based on the tale by the Brothers Grimm, followed by an exclusive album release party!

The Cellos’ Dialogue (Official Selection of The Guerilla Underground)
On February 11, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT the first “Official Selection of The Guerilla Underground” is the Un-آن Theatre Ensemble production about a woman from the Middle East who finds herself struggling with an unexpected pregnancy in America. Written and performed by Deniz Khateri, music and sound design by Bahar Royaee, and directed by Yekta Khaghani.

The Colony (Official Selection of The Guerilla Underground)
On March 11, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT, Guerilla Opera streams another first “Official Selection of The Guerilla Underground”, featuring a story about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: ants and humans. Music by Anna Lindemann, and libretto by Anna Lindemann and Emma-Komlos Hrobsky.

Guerilla Opera's Papillon and SALT
On April 8, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT, Guerilla Opera presents two of their recent genre-bending productions, “Salt” and “Papillon” both with stage direction by Deniz Khateri, and featuring the music of Kaija Saariaho and Bahar Royaee.

TRIO (Official Selections of The Guerilla Underground)
On May 13, 2022 at 7:30PM EDT Guerilla Opera streams the last of the “Official Selection”, three finalists selected by Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia: Populus tremuloides: "Quaking Aspen" by Jason Eckardt and featuring soprano Stephanie Lamprea, Interim by Sarah Grace Graves, and she wears bells, by Jo Reyes-Boitel and featuring Teatro Palo Alto.

Guerilla Opera also acknowledges the following submissions as HONORARY MENTION. The Honorary Mention will play as a highlight reel before the first Guest Artist Feature.

Burning Symphony
Piyawat Louilarpprasert and the Face Shield

Untitled Aunt Jemima Opera
Jason Barabba (composer) and June Carryl (librettist)

I take the long way there: A Capstone Project

Noelle McMurtry and collaborators

Official selections of The Guerilla Underground are supported in part through the generosity of our sponsors at Pentucket Bank. The Guerilla Underground is further supported by Corporate Media Sponsors at PARMA Recordings and in partnership with the Mosesian Center for the Arts.

TICKETING AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Tickets are available through Stellar Tickets in a variety of packages and ticket bundles and can be accessed at https://www.stellartickets.com/o/guerilla-opera/events/guerilla-underground. Single tickets begin at $15, and ticket bundles for the entire season begin at $100. Pay-what-you-want pricing is available for single tickets only. Email boxoffice@guerillaopera.org to unlock this option!
Learn more about The Guerilla Underground, performances and ticketing options at https://guerillaopera.org/underground.

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Guerilla Opera is one of Boston’s most thrilling young companies creating brave new works. Founded in 2007, the ensemble has accumulated a repertoire of 40 new works, which continues to grow, by the most exciting composers of our generation. In daring performances, they have garnered a national reputation for innovative contemporary opera, with The Boston Globe raving that “radical exploration remains the cornerstone of everything it does.”

This artist-led ensemble wields a mission to commission and reenvision new experimental works that are custom-tailored to their artists. They champion cutting-edge music, immerse audiences in profound experiences, are a model for creative authenticity and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) in order to inspire, influence and amplify emerging generations of artists. Their unique body of work ferociously confronts the status quo, eschews antiquated and stereotypical traditions of the art form, examines stories through culturally focused and contemporary lenses, and brings new music to new audiences. (guerillaopera.org)