Home Cooked Heroes: The Concert
Join us for a free concert at our Home Cooked Heroes
partner and venue, Tricklebee Café!
partner and venue, Tricklebee Café!
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Sunday, October 17
6:00-7:00 PM |
4424 W. North Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53208 |
Bring your own chair, relax, and enjoy:
poetry, song, film, and cookies and tea from the café!
poetry, song, film, and cookies and tea from the café!
Featuring performances by
Brit Nicole, Ms Lotus Fankh, David Melby-Gibbons, Klassik,
and a free screening of Home Cooked Heroes,
the short film we made together.
Brit Nicole, Ms Lotus Fankh, David Melby-Gibbons, Klassik,
and a free screening of Home Cooked Heroes,
the short film we made together.
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Cast and creative team are fully vaccinated, and masks are encouraged for attendees.
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Home Cooked Heroes: The Film
Music by Ms. Lotus Fankh | Libretto by Brit Nicole
Direction and Videography by Samer Ghani The old statues have been pulled down. What new figures will take their place? This October, the indie companies of the Decameron Opera Coalition return to your favorite small screen with Heroes: seven world premiere opera short films presented in three episodes.
Learn more about Home Cooked Heroes here! |
Heroes is streaming from now till the end of the year!
"A celebration of the idealism of a restaurant that uses fresh, healthy,
locally-grown ingredients to bring meals and people together."
~Russ Bickerstaff, The Small Stage
locally-grown ingredients to bring meals and people together."
~Russ Bickerstaff, The Small Stage
All tickets $15
One ticket gives you On Demand access to all three Heroes episodes through the end of the year!
Only one ticket per computer/household required.
Only one ticket per computer/household required.
Check out our Home Cooked Heroes trailer, courtesy of Samer Ghani!
Welcome to The Aria Project!
MOT favorite Adam Qutaishat performs "Vesti la giubba" from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
Directed by Catie O'Donnell
Directed by Catie O'Donnell
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From Adam...
"As the world closed down, industries across the world had one choice: move online. Theatre and Music were no different. And while some thrived in a world of getting as many takes as they needed and having scripts in front of them, others were forced to attempt to develop new skills on the fly while living in a world of crisis after crisis. And we did. We made videos or Zoom productions, spending hours making work inferior to that we could have done in only a few minutes of in-person time.
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And we were forced to watch ourselves fail. Over and over and over again. We got to agonize over every tiny mistake that we could identify, but didn't have the tools or materials to fix. We fought through WiFi signals, ring lights, editing software, and the rest of it as an industry (and ourselves) tried desperately to ignore the toll it was taking on our already fragile mental health.
And it has continued, with many companies now doing a self tape screening prior to a prepared audition tape before any hope for being seen in person. So, we continue to smile, slate, and soldier on.
The clowns."
And it has continued, with many companies now doing a self tape screening prior to a prepared audition tape before any hope for being seen in person. So, we continue to smile, slate, and soldier on.
The clowns."
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The Aria Project
Winter (Virtual) Eight beloved local artists use iconic arias to share something about their personal pandemic experiences. We’ll deliver one aria to your inbox, free each month, from October to May.
Featuring the talents of
Austin Bare, Colleen Brooks, Cecilia Davis, Allison Hull, Alexandra Kassouf, Nicole McCarty, Adam Qutaishat, and Nathan Wesselowski! |
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Preludes
Spring (Live/Indoor) Music, Book, and Lyrics by Dave Malloy
We (finally) unite with All In Productions to present Preludes, a musical fantasia set in the mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Delving into the composer’s troubled psyche, Preludes deftly blends the classical and contemporary in a meditation on ambition, failure, and lilacs.
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L'Orfeo
Spring (Live/Indoor) Music by Claudio Monteverdi | Libretto by Alessandro Striggio
English Translation by Danny Brylow and Joseph Krohlow We close our season with a co-production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, partnering with Aperi Animam to commission and perform a new English translation of this masterpiece of early opera, now fully realized with lights, staging, costumes, the whole shebang!
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Plus ten monthly Voice Labs!
Voice Lab dates coming soon! We'll start out virtual and switch to in-person as soon as it's safe.
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Home Cooked Heroes Artwork: Julio Nieves
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Graphic Design: Andrea Klohn
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Help bring this season to life!
Can’t wait to see you inside, outside and online!
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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MOT is a proud member of Opera America.
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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.