new wave opera shines at herstory

Herstory performers (back row): Dan Gibs, Stephen Lewis, Sequoia, Alishia Garcia, Scot Crandal, (middle row): Lindsey Rae Johnson, Nicole Hanig, and (front row): Amanda Rose Taddeo. Photo by Drew Swatosh.

August 17, 2025, Portland, OR - New Wave Opera shines at Show Bar at their performance of HERSTORY, an evening of music celebrating the brilliance of women past and present!  Audiences loved experiencing this music in the chill atmosphere of Revolution Hall's Show Bar, sipping delicious cocktails and snacking on food from their fantastic menu. New Wave Opera previewed selections from Alice Tierney by Melissa Dunphy and Jacqueline Goldfinger and Marie Curie Learns to Swim by Jessica Rudman and Kendra Preston Leonard, which New Wave Opera will perform in full next month on our show Atoms & Artifacts. Plus, we shared music by living composers from Portland and beyond! Featured on the program were Portland composers Barbara Uhman, Dianne Davies, Theresa Koon, Lisa Neher, and Caroline Louise Miller. 

The performers are all artists featured in Atoms & Artifacts: sopranos Lindsey Rae Johnson, Nicole Hanig, Amanda Rose Taddeo and Henriet Fourie, mezzos Lisa Neher and Alishia Garcia, tenor Scot Crandal, and baritone Dan Gibbs, plus pianists Stephen Lewis (who will music direct Marie Curie Learns to Swim) and Sequoia (who will perform piano on both operas). 

Thanks to Revolution Hall, Lisa Lipton, and Drew Swatosh for their support of this event!

Singers Alishia Garcia, mezzo, Lisa Neher, mezzo, and Amanda Rose Taddeo, soprano.
​Photos by Drew Swatosh.