Brian Church News

The cast features Guerilla Opera All-Stars Aliana de la Guardia (soprano and Artistic Director), Brian Church (baritone), and Mike Williams (percussion), in dynamic solo and duo performances. The production and creative team includes Deniz Khateri (Stage Director and librettist for SALT), Nuozhou Wang (Associate Director and Video Effects Designer), Keithlyn Parkmen (Lighting Designer and Associate Producer), Sarah Schneider (Artistic Projects and Production Manager).

Guerilla Opera presents a live production of ELLIS, a world premiere multimedia and immersive opera based on true stories from Ellis Island. ELLIS runs for two performances only on Saturday and Sunday, October 2 & 3, 2021 at 7:00PM in the Old South Meeting House, Boston's National Historic Landmark known for being the spark of the American Revolution.

At the opening of their 15th Anniversary Season, Guerilla Opera will present a live production of ELLIS, a world premiere multimedia and immersive opera, composed and with electronic sound design by Gabriele Vanoni, libretto by Ewa Chrusciel, and with video installation and stage direction by Laine Rettmer.

Join Guerilla Opera at a watch party on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 7:00PM EDT on Sparrow Live for an encore viewing of the world premiere of Giver of Light, a new chamber opera based on the life of 13th-century Sufi poet, Rumi.

As the world prepares for further quarantining, Guerilla Opera, in anticipation, developed the Guerilla Underground, an on-demand virtual speakeasy where you can explore the ensemble's latest COVID Experiments, short projects that pack a punch with small casts of your favorite Guerillas and that expand the definition of opera in surprising ways!

The North American premiere of The Rosenbergs has been selected for the second annual IOTF: The International Online Theatre Festival. The opera was produced by Boston University and Brandeis University, and presented by Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT) in 2018.

Guerilla Opera's season starts Saturday, March 14, 2020! Experience a showcase of five world premiere one-act operas written by composers from Guerilla Opera's inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship in Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham. Featured composers and librettists include: Leah Reid, Caroline Louise Miller, Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei (دانیال رضا سبزقبایی) and Mina Salehpour (librettist), Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, and Niko Yamamoto and Athanasia Giannetos (librettist).

Guerilla Opera, known for all things new, intimate, and experiential, gives you more new works, more composers, fabulous All Stars, and more events in their 13th season with performances in Boston and Washington D.C.!

Cantata Singers celebrates the holiday season with two opportunities to hear "A Cantata Singers Christmas"- today, December 7th at 8pm, and on Sunday, December 9th at 3pm, both at First Lutheran Church in the heart of Boston's Back Bay.

Cantata Singers celebrates the holiday season with two opportunities to hear "A Cantata Singers Christmas"- on Friday, December 7th at 8pm, and on Sunday, December 9th at 3pm, both at First Lutheran Church in the heart of Boston's Back Bay.

Cantata Singers 55th season begins on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 8pm in New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall with J.S. Bach's cantata BWV 140, "Wachet auf," and the first complete performance of John Harbison's Sacred Trilogy.

Whet your appetite for the "enterprising" (Opera News) Guerilla Opera's productions and recordings to come at "Emergence I," a concert presentation featuring a first-listen to new music from Mischa Salkind-Pearl's A Dead Body based on the short story by Anton Chekhov, libretto by Franny Zhang, as well as beloved revivals of Marti Epstein's magical Rumpelstiltskin and Per Bloland's dark and brilliant Pedr Solis with libretto by Paul Schick."Emergence I" plays on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 8:00PM in the OBERON at 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Admission is $20.00 and tickets can be purchased online at cluboberon.com, by phone at 617-547-8300 and at-the-door one hour before curtain at the OBERON.

Boston Playwrights' Theatre hosted the North American premiere of THE ROSENBERGS (AN OPERA) the past two weekends. It moves to Spingold Theater Center at Brandeis University for three performances next weekend. A co-production of Boston University and Brandeis, the opera features music by Joachim Holbek, libretto by Rhea Leman, and is directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky. Moving performances by Brian Church and Christie Lee Gibson breathe life into Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as real people who lived a tragic love story.

Performances of the North American premiere of The Rosenbergs (An Opera) begin this week. The special event is produced by Boston University and Brandeis University, and presented by Boston Playwrights' Theatre (BPT).

Guerilla Opera, having completed a decade's worth of world premiere operas, will premiere a new farce entitled Chrononhotonthologos by long-time collaborator Andy Vores, with stage direction by Nick O'Leary tonight!

Guerilla Opera, having completed a decade's worth of world premiere operas, is still going strong.

Guerilla Opera plays its greatest hits and looks forward on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at its 10th Anniversary Celebration concert in the OBERON at 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA! Join host Allegra Libonati and familiar members of Guerilla Opera's “relentlessly inventive” ensemble at 6:00pm for mingling, appetizers and a cash bar. General admission for this event is $20.00 and can be purchased online at cluboberon.com, by phone at 617-547-8300 and at-the-door 1 hour before curtain at the OBERON.

Guerilla Opera plays its greatest hits on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at its 10th Anniversary Celebration in the OBERON at 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138! Join your host Allegra Libonati, Stage Director of upcoming “Play: the Game—or—Game: the Play” and Boston Lyric Opera's recent “The Rakes Progress,” at 6:00pm  for mingling, appetizers and a cash bar, and mezmerizing performances from Guerilla Opera's “relentlesly inventive” ensemble.

Guerilla Opera plays its greatest hits on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at its 10th Anniversary Celebration in the OBERON at 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138! Join your host Allegra Libonati, Stage Director of upcoming "Play: the Game-or-Game: the Play" and Boston Lyric Opera's recent "The Rakes Progress," at 6:00pm  for mingling, appetizers and a cash bar, and mezmerizing performances from Guerilla Opera's "relentlesly inventive" ensemble. General admission for this event is $20.00 and can be purchased online at cluboberon.com, by phone at 617-547-8300 and at-the-door 1 hour before curtain at the OBERON.

Cantata Singers Chamber Series continues on January 20, 2017 at 7:30pm with a program of music by Lazar Weiner and Kurt Weill at the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge.