Guerilla Underground is an annual virtual festival featuring recordings of groundbreaking live productions, new works, and invigorating new music interpreted through cinematic mediums, with guest artists and more!
This year we bring you two original productions out of the vault:
Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible
Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca’s poetry, Deaf and hearing artists perform through expressive signing and live instrumentation. Motion-sensor technology translates movement into sound and imagery, immersing audiences in themes of communication and transcendence. Choreographed by Antoine Hunter, founder of Deaf-led Urban Jazz Dance Company.
Pedr Solis
Pedr Solis is a complex tale, partially based on ‘The Tower”, a play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and the life of Norwegian author Pedr Solis. In 1970, Solis’ novel “Stillaset” spills into his real life in Oslo. Composed by Per Bloland with Libretto by Paul Shick, the Nordic god Loki narrates.
New for 2026
Inspired by our world premiere of Ululations and Gurgles of the Invisible, the dissertation project of composer Elisabet Curbelo (PhD, UCSD; Asst Prof at the University of UT), we invite submissions of composition dissertation & thesis films, to be included in our festival-within-the-festival of outstanding student works.
Guerilla Opera is seeking submissions of previously unpublished composition student films and videos. Submissions can be in many forms, as long as there is a cinematic and vocal element. If the work was done for a Composition Masters Thesis, Capstone or PhD dissertation we want to see it!
Here are some examples of works we will accept:
Fully staged selections or full length works
Operas (short pieces, scene[s], excerpts from longer works), songs, song cycles, or any other works featuring voice(s)
Animated to composition
Semi stage concert
Concert recording
Each submission should be a maximum of 20 minutes long. If submitting a full length piece, please highlight which section you would like our adjudicators to review. We will select 5 student works to be part of the official 2026 Guerilla Underground. An honorarium will be awarded to those selected.
There is a 25$ submission fee. Fees help us cover the costs of the submission platform the streaming service and continue to support and provide for artists like you.
Finalists will be announced in February 2026!