Our fourteenth season is kicking off with a Bash, the Guerilla Backyard Bash, a virtual backyard gala that offers you an exclusive taste of what we’ve got cooking! Music by Emily Koh, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, Kaja Saariaho and more amazing news!
Read MoreGuerilla Opera Co-Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia and composer Emily Koh join Opera America for Good News Friday, a space to talk about positive change, to share good news from the field, and enjoy a chat with friends and colleagues.
Read MoreGuerilla Opera received an award from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers: Commissioning Grants program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation to support composer Emily Koh’s first evening length opera, HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera!
Read MoreIn this inaugural episode, Keturah speaks with Brenda Huggins, the Director of Engagement Programs at Guerilla Opera in Boston.
Read MoreThis summer, we’re gathering virtually to explore script writing for opera in a supportive creative community to experiment with the many approaches to bringing stories to the stage through voice and music. This Lab will discuss the ensemble’s vibrant and unique repertoire with the librettists and composers who created them in an intimate examination of the creation process.
Read MoreWe shifted some things around, but now our June offerings are set. They begin this week!
Read MoreWorkshop postponed to participate in a peaceful protest in Haverhill marching from the Trinity Stadium (12:30 pm) to the PD station. This is a continued effort, and although we are all getting back to our scheduled programs, let us keep this in the forefront of our minds.
Read MoreWords cannot begin to adequately express the deep emotion our entire ensemble feels right now as we witness the continued injustice, racism and violence against Black people in America. As individuals, we must not sit on the sidelines when faced with injustice. There are things that each and every one of us can do – today and every day – to raise awareness and become an active part of the solution. We ask you to act.
Read MoreAt the Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University on Saturday night, local artist-run company Guerilla Opera stripped down to the bare essentials to live-stream its Emergence Composer Fellowship Showcase of five new short operas. A grand total of 20 people were allowed into the building’s recital hall, which seats roughly 200: a six-person ensemble, some of the featured composers, and a small tech team. Co-artistic directors Aliana de la Guardia and Julia Noulin-Mérat jumped into action as stage crew and managers, and did their best to keep the company’s spirits up.
Read MoreThe Boston Musical Intelligencer reviews our inaugural Emergence Composer Fellowship.
Read MoreThe Guerillas have asked enough of their generous and badass ensemble this season and have decided that the most responsible thing to do is to cancel the rest of it for health and safety purposes surrounding COVID-19.
Read MoreGuerilla 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
Read MoreKnown for all things new, intimate, and experiential, we give you more new works, more composers, fabulous All Stars, and more events in their 13th season with performances in Boston and Washington D.C.!
Read MoreDiscover new composers, operas, workshops and events in Guerilla Opera's 13th Season!
Read MoreWe are auditioning singers who identify their voice as countertenor, tenor and baritone for roles in our 2019-2020 Season and for spots on our roster for consideration in future seasons on Thursday, August 15, 2019, 10AM-1PM and Friday, August 16, 2019, 5PM-9PM at First Parish in Brookline, 382 Walnut St, Brookline, MA 02445. All singers who are selected for an audition must be available for Parts 1 in its entirety.
Read More“Playing without a conductor, the chamber ensemble wove an accompaniment that was both sensitive and energetic. Though only a glimpse into McLoskey’s opera, Thursday’s performance made a strong case for a work that will be heard in full next season.” — Boston Classical Review
Read MoreCheck out this great preview for our upcoming show on May 30 in The Eagle Tribune! This performance is the second-ever on our Emergence Series where we showcase our operas in development. This Emergence performance features The Captivity of Hannah Duston by Grammy award winning composer Lansing McLoskey and New York Times Bestseller librettist Glen Nelson.
Read MoreThanks to everyone who came for our New York City premiere of Marti Epstein’s Rumpelstiltskin this weekend at The National Opera Center!
Read MoreOur upcoming May 17 NYC Premiere was featured in The New Yorker’s Goings On About Town :
“The feisty independent Boston company Guerilla Opera has built an oversized home-town profile by presenting a steady stream of offbeat commissioned works in resourceful, unfailingly imaginative productions.
Read MoreWe are releasing Rumpelstiltskin as an album! We can only do this with your support, so please visit the link below and donate to our IndieGoGo campaign today:
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