Opera Reading Project

Season 8 was incredible! So many firsts for ORP — including staged scenes, orchestra accompaniment, and table reads.

Thank you for attending, and thank you to our performers for sharing unforgettable moments from "La Clemenza di Tito," "Hamlet," "Der Wald," "Peter Grimes," "Tosca," and "Hydrogen Jukebox."

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Develop as a performer with our final improv for opera class INTRO TO ENSEMBLE SCENES. Learn how to tell a unified story with a group, no singing required!

🗓️: Monday, May 25 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
📍: Minnesota Opera Center, 620 N 1st St.
🎟️: tinyurl.com/operaimprov
💲: $30

About: This is offered as part of ORP’s mission to provide vocal artists with holistic educational experiences that focus on storytelling and fostering human connection. As such, these classes will NOT INVOLVE SINGING and will only focus on acting improvisation. Why no singing? While usually absent from a traditional operatic education, development of this kind can often have a profound effect on all major aspects of a singer’s work, including vocal technique. Each class is beginner-friendly and will have a special focus.

Instructor: Ashawnti Sakina Ford’s work has been seen on such notable stages including: Children’s Theatre Company, the Jungle Theater, Penumbra Theatre, History Theatre, and Pillsbury House and Theatre. She has taught Improv and theatre near and far, spanning her hometown Minneapolis to as far as Liberia, Germany, Norway, Holland, and more.

What an incredible night of music 💕

Thanks to all who attended "Hydrogen Jukebox" — let's stay in touch! tinyurl.com/ORPmailinglist

We've had such a good time during rehearsals, it's going to be tough to say goodbye to this squad after tonight! See you all tonight at the Frey Theater in St. Paul for the MN premiere of Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg's "Hydrogen Jukebox!"

🎟️: https://oshag.stkate.edu/event/opera-reading-project-presents-hydrogen-jukebox/frey-theater/
🗓️: Monday, April 27, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
📍: The Frey Theater at St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN

Tickets are available through The O’Shaughnessy ticket office by calling 651-690, visit oshag.stakate.edu, or in person at 2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN.

Ticket prices are subject to a +2.75 online Etix fee. Tickets are $10 – $40 if booked directly through the Ticket Office in person or by phone at: 651-690-6700. Credit card transactions will also be charged a 3% processing fee. See Ticket Office information here. This event is General Admission seating and in The O’Shaughnessy’s Frey Theater. For accessibility information please click here: https://oshag.stkate.edu/plan-your-visit/accessibility/

MEET THE CAST OF "HYDROGEN JUKEBOX"
🎶: Lara Bolton (General & Artistic Director)
🎟️: https://oshag.stkate.edu/event/opera-reading-project-presents-hydrogen-jukebox/frey-theater/
🗓️: Monday, April 27 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
📍: The Frey Theater at St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN

Lara Bolton is a dynamic and multi-faceted keyboardist, vocal coach, conductor, arranger, and recording artist. She is the General & Artistic Director of the Opera Reading Project and the Interim Professor of Collaborative Piano and Coaching at the University of Minnesota. Her work extends beyond the Twin Cities, with operatic engagements in San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Minnesota Opera, San Diego Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Quad Cities Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara, Out of the Box Opera, West Bay Opera, Opera Colorado, and Amarillo Opera. Lara is a former San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and has been a Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist for the Washington National Opera. She also helped develop a Young Artist Program for Opera Santa Barbara. In addition to classical music, she also regularly collaborates as a rock keyboardist and arranges and co-creates various conceptual and genre-bending fusion projects. Her most recent fusion project was music directing “Macbeth and the Weïrd Sisters,” a conceptual piece centering the opera “Macbeth” by Giuseppi Verdi.

Tickets are available through The O'Shaughnessy ticket office by calling 651-690, visit oshag.stakate.edu, or in person at 2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN.