svadba - Wedding

Produced in collaboration with Wild Space Dance Company

Music and Libretto by Ana Soklović

May 8-10, 2018
Best Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery

​​Creative Team

Stage Director: Jill Anna Ponasik
Choreographer: Debra Loewen
Music Director/Conductor: Adam Qutaishat
Assistant Stage Director: Daniel J. Brylow

​Milwaukee Opera Theatre Singers
Alaina Carlson
Lydia Rose Eiche
Allison Hull
Sarah Richardson
Mikaela Schneider
Kati Schwaber

Wild Space Dancers
Chelsey Becher
​Kylee Mae Karzen
Danielle Lohuis
Elisabeth Roskopf
Maggie Seer
Jimmi Renae Weyneth

Photo Credit: Mark Frohna

From our audiences

"WOW and just WOW!!! To the entire Svadba team of geniuses, what a MONUMENTAL accomplishment...I was in awe of the talent, the piece itself, and the insane amount of brainpower and dedication it had to take these ladies (and gentlemen, ahem, Adam) not only to make this happen, but to make it happen SO successfully... just in awe of it all, really... I somehow understood every emotional moment. That’s a huge accomplishment ...Thank you for such a dramatic, loving peace... It was a beautiful wave of sound through the entire evening...This opera was stunning & moving & understandable even though it was in Serbian....This was a real work of art. Beautiful, funny, heartfelt and so innovative. Wow!"