New Opera! New Shirts!
Hello Damn Portlanders!
As some of you might know, we, Vagabond Opera, wrote an opera, which was featured in the Willie Week today.
It is called Queen of Knives, and is "Set in the declining days of carnival culture, which coincided with the rise of the various 1960s protest movements, the opera tells the story of a brother-and-sister knife-throwing act who encounter a magical blade, femme fatale and the like in the midst of the student protests in Birmingham, Ala."
However, unlike most other opera, this opera has many things you've always wanted from opera. Such as knife throwing, fire dancing, belly dancing, a bit of vulgarity sung in soprano and tenor operatic vocals, Arab and Klezmer music, side by side, and of course, an opera in English. It is a coloaboration between Vagabond Opera and Wanderlust Circus, with Mr. Noah Mickens himself as our director.
Shows are May 7th, 8th, and 9th, and May 13th, 14th and 15th, with all shows with doors at 7pm (show at 8pm) except for May 9th, when doors are at 1pm.
All tickets are avaliable at : http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106524
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Secondly, we had a t-shirt design contest! And it's close. Oooooh so close.
You can check our the designs, made by our fans, at : http://vagabondopera.com/t-shirt-design-contest/
And email your top three favorites, in order, to VagaBlogOpera at gmail or post them here!
Cheers!
~VO
As some of you might know, we, Vagabond Opera, wrote an opera, which was featured in the Willie Week today.
It is called Queen of Knives, and is "Set in the declining days of carnival culture, which coincided with the rise of the various 1960s protest movements, the opera tells the story of a brother-and-sister knife-throwing act who encounter a magical blade, femme fatale and the like in the midst of the student protests in Birmingham, Ala."
However, unlike most other opera, this opera has many things you've always wanted from opera. Such as knife throwing, fire dancing, belly dancing, a bit of vulgarity sung in soprano and tenor operatic vocals, Arab and Klezmer music, side by side, and of course, an opera in English. It is a coloaboration between Vagabond Opera and Wanderlust Circus, with Mr. Noah Mickens himself as our director.
Shows are May 7th, 8th, and 9th, and May 13th, 14th and 15th, with all shows with doors at 7pm (show at 8pm) except for May 9th, when doors are at 1pm.
All tickets are avaliable at : http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106524
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Secondly, we had a t-shirt design contest! And it's close. Oooooh so close.
You can check our the designs, made by our fans, at : http://vagabondopera.com/t-shirt-design-contest/
And email your top three favorites, in order, to VagaBlogOpera at gmail or post them here!
Cheers!
~VO