Summer SplashSaturday, July 27 2024, 3:30 pm
SE Portland Westmoreland Neighborhood $20 suggested donation RSVP using our contact form to reserve your seat! Join Susan McBerry's Periwinkle Studios for New Wave Opera's company launch and fundraiser: Summer Splash. Snacks and drinks of the adult and child-friendly varieties provided. This all-ages backyard concert features tuneful opera arias, duets, and art songs by living composers, some of whom live in your own backyard! How can a cook win a baking competition when she's lost her sense of smell? Will wedding preparations ever be perfect for the ultimate Bridezilla? And just what are all those squirrels in your backyard up to? Find out at Summer Splash! Enjoy the talents of soprano Lindsey Rae Johnson, mezzos Lisa Neher and Allison Kim-Yok Knotts, and Stephen Lewis on piano performing music of Melissa Dunphy & Nikita Gill, Gabriela Lena Frank's setting of Andean folk poetry, Monica Chew & Sandra Flores-Strand, William Bolcom, Jake Heggie, Portland's own Dianne Davies & Lisa Neher, and more. |
Music in the ManorMonday, August 19, 2024, 5 pm - 11 pm
Raven's Manor, 235 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR $5 Cover Ages 21+ New Wave Opera performs opera scenes, arias, and songs by living composers and librettists at Raven's Manor Haunted Bar! Enjoy a signature Raven's Manor cocktail while we perform tuneful opera arias, duets, and and art songs by living composers and librettists. And, get an exclusive preview of our spooktacular October show, Night of the Living Opera! What are a pair of bored cats to do when their owner is distracted by newfound love? Can a raven familiar help a grieving daughter avenge her mother's death? And what's that strange, thumping sound? Could it be...a heartbeat? Featuring soprano Lindsey Rae Johnson, mezzos Lisa Neher and Allison Kim-Yok Knotts, and Stephen Lewis on piano performing music of New Wave Opera composers Kimberly Osberg & Lisa Neher, plus selections by Melissa Dunphy & Nikita Gill, Jodi Goble & Basil Considine, Monica Chew & Sandra Flores-Strand, William Bolcom, Jake Heggie, Portland's own Dianne Davies, and more. |
Night of the Living OperaMonday, October 21 and Wednesday, October 23, 2024
5 pm - Midnight--Come anytime! We'll cycle through the show 3x over the course of the evening Raven's Manor, 235 SW 1st Ave, Portland, OR $10 Cover Ages 21+ It's alive! Night of the Living Opera is an evening of creepy contemporary operas in English that are the perfect way to get in the mood for Spooky Season! Enter a world of witches, murderers, and artists gone mad in a nightlife venue with food and drinks. Featuring: Serial Killers and the City by Del’Shawn Taylor and Joanie Brittingham: in this parody of Sex and the City, a group of stylish girlfriends get together to swap stories about their latest murders over Bloody Mary’s and Charcuterie boards. But things get tense when FBI Agent Small unexpectedly joins them for brunch! The Oval Portrait by Felix Jarrar: based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, a painter slowly falls into a drug-induced madness. Thump! by Portland composer Kimberly Osberg: based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic classic The Tell-Tale Heart, this psychodrama explores the psyche of a multifaceted narrator who has committed an unspeakable crime, as well as their relationship to their victim. A chilling tale of loss, resentment, and guilt. she conjures by Portland composer Lisa Neher and Bea Goodwin: in this feminist tale of witches, crows, curses, revenge, and redemption, Grissall, the daughter of the last witch burned in Scotland, seeks justice with the help of her mother’s feathered familiar, Caraid. Scottish folk music infuses this mysterious and haunting story. |
COMPLETED EVENTS
July 27, 2024 | Summer Splash!
New Wave Opera's debut performance as a company, featuring selections from opera arias, duets, and trios along with art songs by living composers and librettists, along with modern settings of historic texts. Photos and a post-concert recap from this event will be available July 30th.
July 12, 2024 | Really Spicy Opera Aria Institute
New Wave Opera singers and pianists recorded arias-in-progress by composers and librettists in Really Spicy Opera's Aria Institute. You can read more about it and peruse a photo gallery from the event by clicking here.
New Wave Opera's debut performance as a company, featuring selections from opera arias, duets, and trios along with art songs by living composers and librettists, along with modern settings of historic texts. Photos and a post-concert recap from this event will be available July 30th.
July 12, 2024 | Really Spicy Opera Aria Institute
New Wave Opera singers and pianists recorded arias-in-progress by composers and librettists in Really Spicy Opera's Aria Institute. You can read more about it and peruse a photo gallery from the event by clicking here.