Let us feature you!
We want to feature other members of our community who investigate and explore themes that are “operatic”!
We are looking for submissions featuring:
Musical compositions from 1975 or later, and that feature artists and creators that identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, or other underrepresented groups.
Acceptable entries include:
● HD Multi-Camera Recordings of live performances;
● Works interpreted through the cinematic mediums of film, video, animation or any combination thereof;
● Visual albums (songs on an album accompanied by a series of videos or a single film serving as a visual vehicle for the music); and
● Genre-bending work that can contain any or all of the above.
Application Timeline:
● Nov 8 Application Period Opens
● Dec 5 Application Period Closes
● Dec 12 Finalists Notified
● Dec 18 Deadline for Finalists to Confirm Participation
● Dec 17 Announce Guest Artists & Underground Tickets Go on Sale to the General Public
● Jan 14 Guerilla Underground Grand Opening & Rumpelstiltskin Album Release Party
Awards & Prizes
Those selected will receive $500.00 plus a percentage of net virtual ticket sales (rate varies by video duration), one (1) livestream viewing, admission for one (1) at the VIP Package level to The Guerilla Underground season, and your virtual performance will be available on demand from the livestream date through May 31, 2022.
Aliana de la Guardia,
a soprano who has garnered acclaim for her “dazzling flights of virtuosity” (Gramophone) in “vocally fearless” performances that are “fizzing with theatrical commitment” (The Boston Globe). A voracious interpreter of repertoire old and new, this Cuban-American artist enjoys a multifaceted career as a vocalist, actor, educator, and entrepreneur in New England and beyond. A Latinx arts leader with accumulated experience in arts administration and with recent accolades that put her at the forefront of the next generation of arts leadership. (guerillaopera.org/aliana-de-la-guardia)
Emily Koh
a Singaporean composer based in Atlanta, Georgia whose music reimagines everyday experiences by sonically expounding tiny oft-forgotten details, and is characterized by inventive explorations of the intricacies of sound. Her work also explores binary states such as extremes x boundaries, distinguished x ignored, and activity x stagnation, through her unique Teochew and Peranakan Singaporean lens. She enjoys collaborating with creatives of other specializations, especially when sound plays a central role in the project. (https://emilykoh.net)
Geovonday Jones
most recently directed The High Captain at The Tank, The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Importance of Being Earnest and In the Blood. Currently, Geo is an Assistant Professor of Acting at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Previously, he was on the faculty at The People’s Improv Theater, and the adjunct faculties in Brooklyn College's Department of Theater and The City College of New York’s Department of Theatre and Speech, where he developed the popular course entitled Theatre and Racism. He is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and an Associate Member of SDC. Additionally, he is a freelance Implicit Bias & Anti-Racism consultant. He has an MFA in Acting from Brooklyn College and a BFA in Acting from Missouri State University. (geovondayjones.com)
Mike Williams
Hailed by The Boston Globe as “one of the city’s best percussionists,” Mike Williams is an advocate for contemporary music, a member of the new music sinfonietta Sound Icon, the Calithumpian Consort, and is a co-founding artist of Guerilla Opera as well as former co-artistic director, with whom he has commissioned and premiered many new chamber operas since 2007. Williams has worked directly with many of the leading composers of our time including Pierluigi Billone, Philippe Leroux, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gunther Schuller, and Roger Reynolds.
Lilit Hartunian
Praised for her "Paganiniesque virtuosity" and “captivating and luxurious tone” by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, this violinist can be heard on Mode Records, BMOP Sound, Innova Recording, SEAMUS records, New Focus Records, and on self-released albums by Ludovico Ensemble and Kirsten Volness. Described as “brilliantly rhapsodic” by the Harvard Crimson, Ms. Hartunian is regularly heard on stage premiering works written for her by leading composers, including a recent world premiere commission from Guggenheim Fellow Marti Epstein. Ms. Hartunian performs frequently as recitalist championing new music, including at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where she was artistic director of Vellumsound, her year-long chamber music residency, in which she curated and performed a season of chamber music paired with visual art in the museum’s collection. Other collaborations of note include recent performances with contemporary ensembles Boston Modern Orchestra Project (with which she appears in a Grammy-nominated album), Sound Icon, Callithumpian Consort, Guerilla Opera, and Ludovico Ensemble, as well as guest appearances with A Far Cry. (https;//lilithartunian.com)
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی)
a creator who aims to emphasize the malleability of time and how we experience it. His work has been performed and commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Beth Morrison Projects, the New York Festival of Song, the Banff Centre, JACK Quartet, Intimacy of Creativity Festival, National Sawdust, loadbang, [Switch~] Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada, Moab Music Festival, The Esoterics, OPERA America, and TAK Ensemble, among others. His recent research has focused on time and form within Persian moosiqi sonnati. Daniel is currently a doctoral candidate and Sage Fellow at Cornell University. (danielsabzghabaei.com)
Kristen Hoskins
an independent curator, producer, and programmer with a focus on audience development, placemaking, and event production. Hoskins is the Director of Department of Time and Space, an independent consulting agency. Most recently she worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as the Head and Curator of Public Programs. She has previously worked at MASS MoCA, MoPOP (Museum of Pop Culture), and Concerted Efforts.