Opera
Cantos y Tumbaos
Libretto by Adalber Salas Hernández
90 - 100 minutes
A salsa opera reimagining Dante’s Inferno inside a notorious Venezuelan political prison.
7 vocalist, 12-piece chamber ensemble
Tienda
Libretto by Caitlin Vincent
60 minutes
Set against the mass Mexican repatriations of the 1930s, Tienda tells the story of a musician-shopkeeper in St. Paul whose grocery store becomes a sanctuary for a community grappling with displacement and the search for home.
For 5 singers (sp., mezzo-sp., 2 tenors, bass-baritone (baritone alternate), violin, viola, cello, guitar, piano, percussion.
Memory Boy
Libretto by Mark Campbell
50 minutes
A gripping coming-of-age story set in a dystopian future, Memory Boy explores how the ancestral wisdom of the past becomes the essential tool for survival in a broken world.
5 main roles, 3 smaller roles. Choir. (1,1,1,1 1,0,0,0 1 Perc. Piano, 2 vln., vla. vcl. db.)
Generalissimo
Libretto by Jess Foster
90 minutes
Set in the afterlife, Generalissimo reconstructs the memory of a fictional dictator to examine the psychological drivers of absolute power and the erosion of democracy in Latin America.
4 Vocalists. Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano, Guitar, Percussion