Mini Festival of Mini Operas! February 24-25, Lafayette

Opera on Tap Colorado presents first of its kind
Mini Festival of Mini Operas February 24-25 in Lafayette, CO

Lafayette, CO - Opera on Tap Colorado will present the first of its kind Mini Festival of Mini Operas in February 24-25 at three arts venues in Lafayette, CO.

Performances will include An Evening of Bite-Sized Opera featuring Douglas Moore's Gallantry and six mini operas by Poulenc, Barber, Menotti and more at the Art Underground Arts Hub, a Meet Your Local Composers presentation featuring live performances and discussions with Colorado composers at The Collective, and Boulder Opera's Firebringers, mini myth operas for kids at the Center for Musical Arts.

Single tickets range from $8 to $15 and can be purchased at http://www.operaontap.org/colorado

Two days, three shows, so many mini operas!
Three Lafayette, CO Arts Venues!

AN EVENING OF BITE-SIZED OPERA
Art Underground Arts Hub
420 Courtney Way
Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25
7:00pm
Tickets: $12/Advance, $15/At Door
http://minioperabitesized.eventbrite.com
Opera on Tap Colorado singers will perform seven short form operas in two hours
including:
Douglas Moore’s Gallantry
Samuel Barber’s Hand of Bridge
Jonathan Dove’s Pig
Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appetit
Giancarlo Menotti’s Telephone
Anne Phillips and Robert Benjamin’s Plots
Francis Poulenc’s Dame de Monte Carlo

Singers include: Stephanie Ball, Corinne Denny, Adrianne Fleming, Margaret Ozaki Graves, Philip Judge, Kate Mathews, Eve Orenstein, Joe Perron, Tom Sitzler, Joshua Zabatta, and Amanda Setlik Jones, piano

MEET YOUR LOCAL COMPOSERS
The Collective
201 North Public Road
Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 257:00pm
Tickets: $8/Advance, $10/At Door
http://minioperalocal.eventbrite.com
There are living, breathing composers among us!
And some of them write tiny operas for big voices.
Pieces will be performed and ideas, inspiration, and process will be discussed!

Featuring composers:
Hunter Ewen, Chappell Kingsland, Leanna Kirchoff, Sarah Perske

BOULDER OPERA’S FIREBRINGERS

Mini myth operas and workshop for kids
Center for Musical Arts
200 East Baseline Road
Saturday, February 25
3:00pm
Tickets: $8/Children, $10/Adults
http://minioperafirebringers.eventbrite.com
Boulder Opera presents a musically compelling and visually stimulating chamber opera for children that takes us on a journey around the world, exploring fire myths of three different cultures. Young audience members will meet a singing rainbow crow, the god of thunder, and a moon-chief, only to name a few! The first scene, “Rainbow Crow,” comes from the Lenapé Indians of North America, the second is the story of Prometheus from ancient Greek mythology, and the last one is the world premiere of a new scene, “Iwarame the Caiman,”from theYanomami-Sanema Tribes in Venezuela.
Appropriate for K-5 audiences and families. Sung in English with instrumental quartet. Performance time: 35 minutes

WORKSHOP!
Stay after the show and let your children help the singers create a new fire myth in this 30-minute opera improvisation workshop! 

About Opera on Tap Colorado:
Opera on Tap Colorado brings opera to unexpected places throughout the state, offering audiences exceptional music by outstanding singers, and giving professional singers the
opportunity to sing regularly in public in a welcoming, supportive atmosphere. Audiences can expect singers to be top notch performers singing music from actual operas - often with a drink in hand!