Transgressive Theatre-Opera

Happy Mother's Day! Celebrate with the FINAL PERFORMANCE of Transgressive Theatre-Opera's production of Le Nozze di Figaro, The Millennial Version at 3:00 PM CST.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE UNTIL 2:00 PM ONLY!!!
www.eventbrite.com/e/le-nozze-di-figaro-tickets-150624815879

Le Nozze di Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, The Millennial Version - No speak-singing, narrated in English, shortened but timely, all the important music retained.

Brent A. Morden has been The Man Behind The Curtain this season at Transgressive Theatre-Opera, allowing us to produce a season - in fact, a larger season than was planned - at such a difficult time. Brent was responsible for the audio design for "Beauty's Truth," and the audio & visual design for everything else in the season, which would include "The Light In the Piazza," and the concerts "Hope Heard 'Round The World" and "Anna Russell, A Visitation." He is now hard at work, putting the finishing touches on Sarah Jenks' fresh adaptation of "Le Nozze di Figaro, The Millennial Version," playing in your living room on Thursday and Friday, May 6 & 7 at 7:00, Saturday, May 8 at 6:00, and Sunday, May 9 at 3:00, all PM CST, on TT-O's YouTube station!

Brent wears many hats in his professional life, making him uniquely qualified for this type of work, and it is that very fact (plus his blinding work ethic) that makes his work look like there's a team of him on the project. And perhaps there is, in a way. Brent is a singer, arranger, composer, conductor, educator, and all-around Renaissance Individual based in NYC, and we are very, very lucky to have found him and have him in our court this season.

Get your tickets at the link below, and then scroll down a little to read more about Brent.
www.eventbrite.com/e/le-nozze-di-figaro-tickets-150624815879

And then hire him. There's no way you don't need to hire someone for something with at least one of his skill sets.

Brent A. Morden is a New York-based composer, arranger, conductor, singer, and educator. Brent’s career has seen him conduct his award-winning band works in venues including Carnegie Hall, write music & lyrics for two comedy musicals produced at Columbia University, and assist acclaimed music director Rob Fisher. Nowadays Brent works as the Program Manager for Every Voice Choirs, a NYC-based nonprofit children’s choir program. Having produced audio for multiple virtual concerts since March 2020, Brent is excited to bring his expertise to Transgressive Theatre-Opera this season. Brent graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 2019 and enjoys running in the park.
https://brentmordenmusic.com/

Bass Baritone Bryan Dahl makes his Transgressive Theatre-Opera debut as Don Bartolo in "Le Nozze di Figaro" on Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7 at 7:00, Saturday, May 8 at 6:00, and Sunday, May 9 at 3:00, all PM CST. Bryan was based in Chicago for some time, but sings this role from sunny California. One of the benefits of this dreadful mess is that many of us have found new ways to make art, and using the technology at hand means that while we sadly can't be in the room together, we can also take hands across counties and continents.

Tickets for this, our final production in our streaming season, can be had at this link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/le-nozze-di-figaro-tickets-150624815879

Read more about Bryan below. We hope you will join us!

Bass-Baritone Bryan Dahl completed his MM at The Chicago College of Performing Arts. Before singing in Chicago, he began his operatic training in Los Angeles performing with Center Stage Opera and Pacific Opera Project. He has sung with The Hyde Park Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, Du Page Opera, South Shore Opera, Thompson Street Opera, the University of Chicago Heritage Chorale, and is delighted to be making his debut with Transgressive Theatre-Opera.

Erich Buchholz returns to Transgressive Theatre-Opera as Don Basilio in The Millennial Version of "Le Nozze di Figaro," playing in your living room, dining room, or kitchen on our YouTube station on Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7 at 7:00 PM, Saturday, May 8 at 6:00 PM, and Sunday, May 9 at 3:00 PM, all CST.

Erich first appeared with TT-O in our "Letter of Love and Subterfuge" Concert, and we are thrilled to have him back. His Don Basilio is already, as we say in the film business, "in the can," and he is as funny as can be while still singing beautifully. Contrary to some popular opinions, it isn't necessary to make a "character voice" to create a character.

Tickets are $10 a pop for as many people as you have in your current social bubble for inside venues. It's a great time for pizza, popcorn, or steak tartare, whatever fits the bill, as you take in TT-O's Resident Music Director Sarah Jenks' zany, fresh adaptation of this classic, sung in Italian, but with hysterical English narration taking the place of all those never ending recitatives that were quite the thing in Mozart's time, although millennials as a group eschew them. Here' a link to the tickets:
www.eventbrite.com/e/le-nozze-di-figaro-tickets-150624815879

And wine. It's just a thought. You could have wine as well. You can do the "family pour" that they never give you in bars and restaurants, you know, the one where you use the entire glass so you don't have to bother the bottle as often?

Read more about Erich below, pull up an app on that cell phone that is always in your hand you know it is and get in your wine order, and click on the link above to get that ticket!

Erich Buchholz, tenor, has performed the title roles in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and Monteverdi’s Orfeo with period instruments. With Chicago Folks Operetta he has performed in the American premieres of Lehar’s Mitislav the Modern and Cloclo, Fall’s Girl in the Train, Rose of Stambul and Madame Pompadour, and Kalman’s Arizona Lady. With the comedy sextet Hudson Shad he has toured extensively in the United States and Japan. He has sung in concert works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Britten, Mozart, and Debussy. He can be heard on the Naxos recording of Fall’s Rose of Stamboul with Chicago Folks Operetta. Recent debuts include Calgary Philharmonic with Fall of the House of Usher (Glass), Louisville Orchestra and Detroit Symphony in Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with Storm Large, and Cincinnati Pops in Music Man. He sings with the Grant Park Chorus, where he recently performed the tenor solo in Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia.