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East Village Opera Company
Sunday, March 30, 2008
at 7:00 pm
Main Stage - $32
“We’re a cover band that plays hits from 250 years ago.”
- Peter Kiesewalter, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, co-founder of the East Village Opera Company with lead singer Tyley Ross
You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock—but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. They are a powerhouse five-piece band, joined by a string quartet and two outstanding vocalists who bring the towering emotion and timeless musicality of opera into the 21st century. Its inventive, hard-hitting arrangements of the music’s “greatest hits”— including “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto, “Habanera” from Carmen, and “Nessun dorma” from Turandot — are performed at full length and in the original languages.
Imagine a collaboration between Mozart and The Who or Puccini and Queen and you begin to get the idea of the group’s provocatively innovative treatments. In its New York stage debut in the spring of 2004, Time Out New York raved that the group "…electrifies the classics for a new generation."
A new, fresh and exciting look at opera, performed by world-class musicians and singers, bringing the most famous musical works to life. Not to be missed!
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