In its 15th season, the group is creating new connections with opera composers, performers, and fans with expanded virtual programming
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An interesting conversation with Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director about the Guerilla Underground with the Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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Guerilla Opera begins its 15th-anniversary celebration “Guerilla Underground” tonight with Deniz Khateri’s animated version of Marti Epstein’s Rumpelstiltskin. Originally commissioned in 2008 by the Guerillas, Epstein’s chamber opera made for a thoughtful and haunting online take on the Brothers Grimm’s folk tale.
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Guerilla Opera is proud to announce the winners who will be included as Official Selections in The Guerilla Underground 2022 Season: The Colony (Anna Lindemann), The Cello’s Dialogue (UN-آن THEATRE ENSEMBLE), Populus tremuloides: "Quaking Aspen" by Jason Eckardt (Stephanie Lamprea), Interim (Sarah Grace Graves), and she wears bells (Jo Reyes-Boitel & feat. Teatro Palo Alto).
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Guerilla Opera is thrilled to announce the 2022 season of The Guerilla Underground, a virtual speakeasy experience and performance series that explores the “operatic” with streaming and video on demand options and After Parties with artist Q&A, games and giveaways.
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Join us in welcoming Alexis Peart (Development & marketing Coordinator) and Maggi Chauby (Artistic Associate). Both these fantastic collaborators are budding artist-producers and bring so much unique skill and enthusiasm to this ensemble.
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Her project “SHRILL” is being written for Guerilla Opera.
Tina Tallon was recently announced as one of the winners of the 2021-2022 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. These highly ambitious and competitive fellowships support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. This year, the gift of “time and space to think and work” was awarded to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars. Each winner will receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board at the Academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome, starting in September 2021.
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On the topic of being a woman in the arts
de la Guardia admitted that women do have to work twice as hard in the industry. “It’s not fair, but it’s the reality. You have to work twice as hard to be seen, and twice as hard to have your work respected. And I hope that will change,” she said. She highlighted that being a woman in the industry means that you also have to have a strong support system behind you. “Think of yourself as more than an artist; you are a business person, and you are your own business. And in order to be artistic, you also have to have the mind of an administrator.”
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Guerilla Opera redefines the opera experience.
GUERILLA OPERA RELISHES confrontation and upending conventions. Founded in Boston in 2007, the company has no conductor, chorus or orchestra. The pieces it commissions, which never exceed ninety minutes and are often closer to ten, feature no more than four instruments and four singers. In some instances, they have no vocal music at all. Whether their productions should even be called operas was once discussed within the group.
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“Growing and evolving our creative practice.”
Guerilla Opera’s Board of Directors and Ensemble are pleased to announce Aliana de la Guardia as sole Artistic Director effective February 8, 2021.
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We have been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support the world premiere of Island of Hope, Island of Tears with music by Boston-based composer Gabriele Vanoni, libretto by Eva Chrusciel and in collaboration with stage director and video artist Laine Rettmer.
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We have incredible news to share! Co-Artistic Director, Julia Noulin-Mérat has recently been appointed General Manager and CEO of Opera Columbus! Her years of experience in opera design, interpretation of traditional repertoire, new work development and cultivating leadership skills has all been leading to this. This is an incredible achievement and we're so happy for her!
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Cindy Hennon Marino met Julia Noulin-Mérat a few years ago at an OPERA America conference. Here they talk about life, career, opera and theater!
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Alley Stoughton of Not Brahms and Liszt show interviewed co-artistic director Aliana de la Guardia about the Guerilla Underground as well as playing some clips!
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Guerrilla Opera has embraced online programming this season with a series of “Covid experiments.” As the final event of the Boston New Music Festival, “Dreamwalker, a month-long audio-visual production, combines a group of these experiments in a veritable feast of drama, film, and music.
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Guerilla Opera, in partnership with HC Media, joins the opening weekend Boston New Music Festival with a live studio performance of Dreamwalker.
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For 14 seasons, the Guerilla Opera in Boston has used innovative music techniques to tell stories and engage its audience.
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Nimble, resourceful, transformative, that’s us in a nutshell! In our 14th season we have expanded our digital programming to give you so much more!
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Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture announce the City of Boston awarded $815,000 in grants to 146 local arts and cultural organizations as part of the Arts and Culture COVID-19 Fund, including Guerilla Opera!
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Boston Singer’s Resource interviews composer Emily Koh about HER:alive|un|dead: a media opera with comments from Co-Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia.
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