Really Spicy Opera
Really Spicy Opera | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Genres | New opera |
| Years active | 2005 – present |
| Members | Artistic Director Basil Considine Managing Associate Angela Sorenson Artistic Associate Natalie Williams Artistic Associate Adam Baus |
| Website | spicyopera.com |
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
- ^ Appelbaum, Hanne. '"Fascinating, Striking Rigoletto.". Twin Cities Arts Reader, June 4, 2016.
- ^ "Opera America membership directory". Retrieved August 9, 2016.
- ^ Minnesota Fringe Festival. "The Clever Artifice of Harriet and Margaret."
- ^ Considine, Basil. "Opera minus the high costs and testosterone." Twin Cities Daily Planet, January 24, 2015.
- ^ Longbella, Marta (August 6, 2016). "Fringe review: Game of Thrones: The Musical". Retrieved August 8, 2016.