2015
Viva’s Holiday
December 2, 3 & 4 at the Star Theater
OTO is a proud sponsor of Viva’s Holiday, the most exciting opera premiere of the season. Viva is a one-act opera about a Portland stripper going home for the holidays.
Based on Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas, the story combines a local underground heroine’s experiences with lyrical vocal writing and a 12-piece orchestra.
The opera is being produced by Cult of Orpheus, the music production vehicle of composer Christopher Corbell, and features the work of many OTO regulars, including OTO Music Director Erica Melton.
2013/2014 SEASON
Giasone and The Argonauts
…a high-brow/low-brow fusion of 17th century Venetian opera and 1960s mythic fantasy cinema
7:00 pm May 30, 31 & June 5, 6, 7, 2014 | The Hollywood Theatre
Trailer by Galen Huckins. Narration by Sam Mowry.
this project was funded in part by:
additional significant support provided by:
2012/2013 SEASON
The Cunning Little Vixen
by Leoš Janáček
JULY 24, 25, 26, 27, 2013 | Wild Goose Farm, Sauvie Island
In July 2013, we invited audience members to immerse themselves in summertime for OTO’s “The Cunning Little Vixen,” bringing together cuisine, opera and dance at Wild Goose Farm on Sauvie Island.
Leos Janácek’s wildly passionate fable celebrates nature’s cycles of birth, love, death and renewal told through the eyes of both humans and animals. Guests are invited to arrive early and enjoy the farm and libations available at the bar tucked among the orchard trees while Czech chanteuse Helena Greathouse and accordionist Mark Greathouse warm up the audience with native folk and cabaret music. Before the performance on July 27, audience members may participate in a Farm-to-Table dinner prepared by celebrated chef Thomas Boyce (formerly of Blue Hour). Wild Goose’s farm suppers are a rare occurrence and a hot ticket (sure to sell out quickly); they were recently featured in The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland in a chapter entitled “Supper Club Renegades.”
Run time 90 minutes. Performed in English translation, accompanied by a sextet of flute, clarinet, viola, harp, cello and pump organ (arrangements by Melton).
directed by Clara Weishahn
featuring the Agnieszka Laska Dancers , choreography by Agnieszka Laska
musical direction by Erica Melton
with a special pre-show performance by Mark and Helena Greathouse
This production generously supported by:
Special thanks to:
Sauvie Island Community Church
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The Old Maid and the Thief
October 5,6,7,11,12, 2012
The Mission Theater
Directed by Kristin Heller
Musical direction by Erica Melton
featuring an original short film by Jen Wechsler
starring
Christine Meadows as Miss Todd
Lisa Mooyman as Miss Pinkerton
Erik Hundtoft as Bob
Audrey Sackett as Laetitia
Robert Hill as Wally Willamette
Ian Timmons as the Assistant to the Production Assistant
featuring live foley by Unchained Production’s David Ian and Dino DeAElfweald
featuring the merry melodies of the “KQAC Radio Band”
original sponsor jingles by Justin Ralls, with lyrics by Robert Hill
REVIEWS of “The Old Maid and the Thief:”
James McQuillen, The Oregonian
James Bash, Oregon Music News
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2011/2012 SEASON
You’re Still as Beautiful
MAY 31 | JUNE 1, 8, 9, 2012 | 7:30 pm | The Mission Theater
“You’re Still as Beautiful”
…a new adaptation of Claude Debussy’s masterpiece “Pelléas et Mélisande”
Debussy’s sumptuous and evocative legend is recast as a web of flashbacks, delusions and fantasies:
what if Pelléas merely imagined his love affair with Mélisande?
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CAST
Matthew Hayward as Pelléas/ “X”
Jena Viemeister as Mélisande/”A”
Ben Bell as Golaud/ “M”
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Directed by Clara Weishahn
Lighting design by Peter West
Set design by Brian Melton
sung in French with English surtitles
May 31, June 1, 8, 9, 2012 (all shows at 7:30 pm)
The Mission Theater
1624 NW Glisan St. Portland
***All ages welcome***
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This production was made possible by the generous support of
THE AUTZEN FOUNDATION
and season sponsor