Announcing our 2022-2023 Season!
With June’s joyous production of L’Orfeo, we concluded the last of our
postponed, cancelled, or otherwise pandemic-hijacked projects,
leaving a fresh, open landscape of possibility for 2022-23.
It’s going to be a busy year. Here’s what we’re brewing:
postponed, cancelled, or otherwise pandemic-hijacked projects,
leaving a fresh, open landscape of possibility for 2022-23.
It’s going to be a busy year. Here’s what we’re brewing:
Night of the Living Opera
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Libretto by Josh Perkins
Music by Andrew Dewey October 28-30, 2022
Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center 158 N Broadway, Milwaukee A concert reading of our operatic adaptation of the classic horror film…with puppets courtesy of our friends at Angry Young Men! |
DOC The Halls
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Music & Lyrics by Adam Qutaishat
Animation by Eric Miranda December 2, 2022
Virtual Presentation The indie companies of the Decameron Opera Coalition (DOC) are at it again, and this time we’re making a holiday album! |
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Requiem
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Music by Paula Foley Tillen
Set to various texts January 29, 2023
Plymouth Church 2717 E Hampshire Street, Milwaukee A requiem seven years in the making emerges this January, uniting us once again with Paula Foley Tillen and our friends at Chant Claire. |
Rusalka
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Music by Antonín Dvořák
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil Adapted by Jason Powell February 9-12, 2023
Danceworks Studio Theatre 1661 N Water Street, Milwaukee For our 7th collaboration with Danceworks Performance MKE, we plunge into Dvořák’s Rusalka, featuring singing sprites, dancing goblins, and Jason Powell as The Moon. |
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Impossible Operas
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Created by Tim Rebers, Brian Rott, Jeffrey Mosser, Anja Notanja Sieger and Jill Anna Ponasik
Featuring the music of Mozart, Wagner, Bartók, Handel (and more!) May 19-28, 2023
Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center 158 N Broadway, Milwaukee Some operas are so challenging, they’re considered practically impossible. With our friends at Quasimondo Physical Theatre, we’re going to present seven of them…in a row. |
Birds of a Feather
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May 31 & June 1, 2023
Jan Serr Studio 2155 N Prospect Ave, Milwaukee We’re teaming up with Present Music for a concert featuring Gabriel Kahane, performing a new version of his solo album Magnificent Bird - plus a newly commissioned work from chamber music superstar Paul Wiancko. |
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Plus monthly Voice Labs, our Script & Score program,
and a new Composer Librettist Studio education initiative!
and a new Composer Librettist Studio education initiative!
Help us continue our mission to serve as
Milwaukee's Microbrewery for Opera
with a tax-deductible donation in any amount!
Milwaukee's Microbrewery for Opera
with a tax-deductible donation in any amount!
Your support is greatly appreciated!
Graphic Design: Andrea Klohn
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Rusalka Photo Credit: Christal Wagner
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Impossible Operas Artwork: Anja Notanja Sieger
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Our season was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board
with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Our Mission
We are Milwaukee’s micro-brewery for opera, proudly producing small batches of high quality, local lyric theatre.
We tell stories through music...unconventionally.
We tell stories through music...unconventionally.
Milwaukee Opera Theatre is a registered 501(c)(3) organization.