Featured Press
“Sometimes, it takes a punk-rock mentality to breathe new life into a 350-year-old art form”
-The Boston Phoenix
“The Guerilla Opera company is proving that small companies can make it these days, and are doing it by performing new works and American composers of all opera genres.”
-Rosebrook Classical Blog
“Riotously intense and wonderfully intimate”
-FM Magazine
Puccini Goes Punk
By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN, The Boston Phoenix (January 23, 2009)
The Fat Lady Sings: Closing the Curtain on Traditional Opera (*PDF)
By: Nicholas Coxx, FM Magazine (June/July 2008 Issue)
Press from Heart of a Dog
“Enterprising and unmistakably ‘alternative’”
-The Boston Globe
“A prime and rare example of opera properly compounded with theater.”
-Boston Lowbrow
“Heart of a Dog is smart, quirky contemporary opera with a lot of talent, creativity, and professionalism behind it”
-Boston Lowbrow
“Visually, the opera [Heart of a Dog] is stunning… creative use of costuming… superb puppetry!”
-Boston Musical Intelligencer
Press from Say It Ain’t So, Joe
“The instrumental work—a small quartet of sax (Kent O’Doherty), percussion (Mike Williams), cello (Javier Caballero) and clarinets (Rane Moore)— showed major chops and energy”
-The Boston Herald
WBUR/NPR: Morning Edition (September 25, 2009)
http://youtu.be/8n05HW880EM
This video was shot by WBUR during one of the dress rehearsals for Say It Ain’t So, Joe. Go to our Podcast page to listen to the broadcast and to visit the interactive web component, which features audio clips comparing the setting of the text in the opera to the text directly from the debate.
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MSNBC:Morning Joe! (September 19, 2009)
Sarah Palin Opera opens in Boston. MSNBC’s Alex Witt speaks with Keith Powers, music critic from the Boston Herald about “Sarah Palin: The Opera.”
Fox News: The O’Reilly Factor (September 16, 2009)
Bill O’Reilly DID plug Guerilla Opera on his show just a few days before we opened, however Fox News has made the youtube clip unavailable.
Guerilla Opera attacks! Political themes and contemporary sound help black-box opera company update an ancient genre
By: EMMA BUSHNESS, Tufts Daily (October 1, 2009)
Run to See “Say It Ain’t So, Joe!”
By: LARRY PHILLIPS, The Boston Musical Intelligencer (September 21, 2009)
You betcha!
By: KATRINA BALLARD, The Boston Metro (September 24, 2009)
In this opera production, the pitch is political: Palin-Biden debate inspires ‘Say It Ain’t So’
By: DAVID WEININGER, The Boston Globe (September 18, 2009)
An opera about Sarah Palin? You betcha!
By: KEITH POWERS, The Boston Herald (September 15, 2009)
Press from Rumpelstiltskin
Rumpelstiltskin Goes to the Opera
By: DAVID WEININGER, The Boston Globe (May 19, 2009)
Press from No Exit
“Rocked the local opera scene”
-The Boston Phoenix
“Hair-raising”
-The Boston Phoenix
“I can’t imagine anyone left the theater unshaken”
-The Boston Phoenix
“A signature event of the city’s 2007-2008 season”
-Richard Dyer in The Boston Conservatory’s Stages
Audience Response
“Serious and fun work that no one else in Boston is doing -paving the way for a new more economical form of opera.”
“These performances are exciting and bold. Attending as an audience member, is a satisfying experience.”
“Guerilla Opera is what performance art should be; thought provoking and fresh. Why see the same old same old when you can see something exciting and new?”
“Cutting edge shit! Vivid, musically and dramatically alive. These folks are for real!”
“The performance of No Exit and the quality of the cast opened my eyes to the art of Opera.”
