BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2021996:Event:179372 DTSTAMP:20260414T213450Z SUMMARY:Mini Festival of Mini Operas! February 24-25, Lafayette DESCRIPTION: Opera on Tap Colorado presents first of its kind Mini Fes tival of Mini Operas February 24-25 in Lafayette, CO\nLafayette, 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.\n Performances will include An Evening of Bite-Sized Opera featuri ng Douglas Moore's Gallantry and six mini operas by Poulenc, Barber, Menotti and more at the Art Underground Arts Hub, a Meet Your Local C omposers presentation featuring live performances and discussions wit h Colorado composers at The Collective, and Boulder Opera's Firebring ers, mini myth operas for kids at the Center for Musical Arts.\n Singl e tickets range from $8 to $15 and can be purchased at http://www.oper aontap.org/colorado\nTwo days, three shows, so many mini operas! Three Lafayette, CO Arts Venues!\n AN EVENING OF BITE-SIZED OPERA Art Under ground Arts Hub 420 Courtney Way Friday, February 24 and Saturday, Feb ruary 25 7:00pm Tickets: $12/Advance, $15/At Door http://minioperabite sized.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 B on Appetit Giancarlo Menotti’s Telephone Anne Phillips and Robert Be njamin’s Plots Francis Poulenc’s Dame de Monte Carlo Singers incl ude: Stephanie Ball, Corinne Denny, Adrianne Fleming, Margaret Oza ki Graves, Philip Judge, Kate Mathews, Eve Orenstein, Joe Perron, Tom Sitzler, Joshua Zabatta, and Amanda Setlik Jones, piano\nMEET YO UR LOCAL COMPOSERS The Collective 201 North Public Road Friday, Februa ry 24 and Saturday, February 257:00pm Tickets: $8/Advance, $10/At Door http://minioperalocal.eventbrite.com There are living, breathing comp osers among us! And some of them write tiny operas for big voices. Pie ces will be performed and ideas, inspiration, and process will be disc ussed!\nFeaturing composers: Hunter Ewen, Chappell Kingsland, Leanna K irchoff, Sarah Perske\n\nBOULDER OPERA’S FIREBRINGERS\nMini myth ope ras and workshop for kids Center for Musical Arts 200 East Baseline Ro ad Saturday, February 25 3:00pm Tickets: $8/Children, $10/Adults http: //minioperafirebringers.eventbrite.com Boulder Opera presents a musica lly compelling and visually stimulating chamber opera for children th at takes us on a journey around the world, exploring fire myths of th ree different cultures. Young audience members will meet a singing ra inbow crow, the god of thunder, and a moon-chief, only to name a few! The first scene, “Rainbow Crow,” comes from the Lenapé Indians o f North America, the second is the story of Prometheus from ancient G reek 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 ins trumental quartet. Performance time: 35 minutes\nWORKSHOP! Stay after the show and let your children help the singers create a new fire myt h in this 30-minute opera improvisation workshop! \nAbout Opera on T ap Colorado: Opera on Tap Colorado brings opera to unexpected places t hroughout the state, offering audiences exceptional music by outstand ing singers, and giving professional singers the opportunity to sing r egularly in public in a welcoming, supportive atmosphere. Audiences c an expect singers to be top notch performers singing music from actua l operas - often with a drink in hand!\n\nFor more information visit h ttps://www.mytowncolorado.com/events/mini-festival-of-mini-operas-febr uary-24-25-lafayette DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20170224T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170225T210000 CATEGORIES:music, festival LOCATION:Arts Underground Art Hub, The Collective, Center for Musical Arts WEBSITE:http://www.operaontap.org/colorado URL:http://www.operaontap.org/colorado CONTACT: ORGANIZER:Opera on Tap Colorado ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/1051743643?profile=original END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR