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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