Really Spicy Opera

Really Spicy Opera
Origin Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Genres New opera
Years active 2005 – present
Associated acts Boston University
Website spicyopera.com
Members Artistic Director
Basil Considine
Managing Associate
Angela Sorenson
Artistic Associate
Natalie Williams
Artistic Associate
Adam Baus

Really Spicy Opera is a non-profit performing arts organization that produces live opera in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The professional opera company operated in Boston from 2006-2013 and has produced performances in the Twin Cities since 2014. Its programming includes a mix of new musicals, new operas, and classic musicals and operas. The company celebrated its 10th anniversary in June 2016 with a performance of the three-act Italian opera, Rigoletto, composed by Giuseppe Verdi at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis.[1] Really Spicy Opera is an Opera America member organization.[2]

The company has staged more than one dozen world premieres of musical works for the stage, including Aaron Krerowicz's Simple Gifts: A Copland Opera, Julia Smith's The Here and Now: Love in the 21st Century, and Leanna Kirchoff's The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret.[3] The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret, an adaptation of Alice Gerstenberg's play Overtones, was the winner of the National Opera Association's 2012-2014 Chamber Opera Composition Competition.[4] The company staged the world premiere of Game of Thrones: The Musical at the 2016 Minnesota Fringe Festival, winning the Twin Cities Arts Reader's Best of Fringe and Critic's Pick awards.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Appelbaum, Hanne. '"Fascinating, Striking Rigoletto.". Twin Cities Arts Reader, June 4, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Opera America membership directory". Retrieved August 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Minnesota Fringe Festival. "The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret."
  4. ↑ Considine, Basil. "Opera minus the high costs and testosterone." Twin Cities Daily Planet, January 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ Longbella, Marta (August 6, 2016). "Fringe review: Game of Thrones: The Musical". Retrieved August 8, 2016.
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