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July 9, 2018 · 11:20 am

Cincinnati Opera Announces Free Screening of ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL – THE DOCUMENTARY

CO_Another Brick in the Wall logoJuly 11 at 21c Museum Hotel 

CINCINNATI, OH—On Wednesday, July 11, Cincinnati Opera and 21c Museum Hotel will partner to present a free screening of the 30-minute film, Another Brick in the Wall—The Documentary, by Pierre and François Lamoureux. The documentary follows the creators of the new opera Another Brick in the Wall, including Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, composer Julien Bilodeau, and stage director Dominic Champagne, as they discuss the process of transforming Pink Floyd’s 1979 rock album The Wall into a grand opera. This screening is presented in conjunction with Cincinnati Opera’s U.S. premiere of Another Brick in the Wall, which runs July 20 through 31 at Cincinnati Music Hall.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING

Wednesday, July 11 at 7:00 p.m.
21c Museum Hotel
609 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Event timeline:

  • 7:00 p.m. Cocktails (cash bar)
  • 8:00 p.m. Documentary screening
  • 8:30 p.m. Panel discussion with guest speakers, including the documentary’s director, Pierre Lamoureux

Reservations: Admission is free, but tickets are required. To reserve your seat, call the Cincinnati Opera box office at (513) 241-2742. Box office hours: M-F 10AM-5PM. 

Founded in 1920 and the second oldest opera company in the nation, Cincinnati Opera presents a thrilling season of grand opera every June and July. The company’s repertoire includes beloved classics and contemporary masterworks brought to life by some of the world’s most dynamic performers and creative teams. 

Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 Summer Festival continues through July 31, featuring Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Laura Kaminsky’s As One, and the United States premiere of Roger Waters’s Another Brick in the Wall, based on the Pink Floyd album The Wall. Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 Season Presenting Sponsor is PNC. The 2018 season is also made possible with support from ArtsWave, Ohio Arts Council, The Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund, and many generous individuals, corporations, and foundations. 

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July 6, 2018 · 12:11 pm

Cincinnati Opera Announces Community Events in Support of Transgender Opera AS ONE

CO_As One logoJuly 11–30 

CINCINNATI, OH—This month, Cincinnati Opera will present a host of community events in conjunction with its production of the contemporary chamber opera As One. In the work, a mezzo-soprano and a baritone both depict the experiences of a transgender protagonist, Hannah, as she endeavors to resolve the discord between herself and the outside world. These public discussions and performances will examine the significance of As One, explore what it means to be transgender, and elucidate the transgender experience.

MY VOICE, MY STORY
Wednesday, July 11 at 7:00 p.m.
4th Floor Presidents’ Garret
Corbett Opera Center, Music Hall
1243 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Cincinnati Opera hosts a Q&A discussion about transgender individuals’ physical voices and personal experiences. Moderated by Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, this event features a panel of speech pathologists and patients.

Reservations: Admission is free, but reservations are requested. To reserve your seat, call the Cincinnati Opera box office at (513) 241-2742. Box office hours: M-F 10AM-5PM.

OPERA RAP: AS ONE
Thursday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Music Hall’s Wilks Studio
1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Cincinnati Opera Artistic Director Evans Mirageas will host a discussion with the creative team of the contemporary chamber opera As One. Audiences will learn about the opera’s history, development, and significance. The panel will feature the following artists:

  • Laura Kaminsky, composer: Named “one of the top 35 female composers” (The Washington Post), Kaminsky’s operas include As One (2014), Some Light Emerges (2017), and Today It Rains (planned for 2019). She is head of composition at the Conservatory of Music/SUNY Purchase.
  • Mark Campbell, co-librettist: Campbell is at the forefront of the contemporary opera scene. In addition toAs One, his librettos include Silent Night (2011), The Manchurian Candidate (2015), The Shining (2016), and The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (2017).
  • Robin Guarino, stage director: Guarino has directed productions for The Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Cincinnati Opera (Die Fledermaus in 2016). She is the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair of Opera at CCM and Co-Artistic Director of Opera Fusion: New Works, a collaboration between CCM Opera and Cincinnati Opera. 

Reservations: Admission is free, but reservations are requested. To reserve your seat, call the Cincinnati Opera box office at (513) 241-2742. Box office hours: M-F 10AM-5PM.

POST-SHOW PANELS
July 25, 27, 28, 29, and 30, following the performance of As One
Music Hall’s Wilks Studio
1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Cincinnati Opera offers a 30-minute discussion with a variety of guests after each performance of As One. Through impactful storytelling, these conversations will examine and elucidate the transgender experience.

Reservations: No reservations required. All As One audience members are welcome to attend following the performance.

“WHERE’S MY PARADE?”
July 26 & 27 at 7:00 p.m. and July 29 at 5 p.m.
Below Zero Lounge’s Upstairs Cabaret
1120 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Cincinnati Opera presents a hilarious and heartwarming one-woman show by local performer Kristin Orr about navigating her spouse’s transgender experience.

Reservations: $15 general admission; $10 for As One ticket holders. Tickets available starting Friday, July 6. To reserve your seat, call the Cincinnati Opera box office at (513) 241-2742. Box office hours: M-F 10AM-5PM. 

Founded in 1920 and the second oldest opera company in the nation, Cincinnati Opera presents a thrilling season of grand opera every June and July. The company’s repertoire includes beloved classics and contemporary masterworks brought to life by some of the world’s most dynamic performers and creative teams. 

Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 Summer Festival continues through July 31, featuring Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Laura Kaminsky’s As One, and the United States premiere of Roger Waters’s Another Brick in the Wall, based on the Pink Floyd album The Wall. Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 Season Presenting Sponsor is PNC. The 2018 season is also made possible with support from ArtsWave, Ohio Arts Council, The Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund, and many generous individuals, corporations, and foundations. 

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July 5, 2018 · 3:21 pm

Broadway Cabaret Featuring Cast of THE BOOK OF MORMON on July 30

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A Broadway Cabaret
A Benefit Fundraiser for the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater 
Featuring the Cast from THE BOOK OF MORMON

Monday, July 30 @ 8pm
Warsaw Federal Incline Theater

Cast members of the national tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON will take a break from the show to perform an evening of Broadway show tunes as a benefit fundraiser for the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater on Monday, July 30 at 8pm.

The performers will sing some of Broadway’s best, from timeless classics to songs that they use at auditions to land their coveted roles. The night of music promises to thrill, move and completely entertain the audience.

“‘A Broadway Cabaret,” featuring the cast of the national tour of the THE BOOK OF MORMON, is presented by TriHealth. All proceeds from the evening will support Cincinnati Landmark Productions and the artistic programming of the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater.

Tickets for the benefit concert go on sale Monday, July 9 at 11am.

Two ticket levels are available:

  • VIP tickets – $100 each, includes a seat in the reserved premium section of the theater, two drink tickets and admittance to a special pre-event meet-and-greet reception with the cast
  • Patron tickets – $50 each, includes one drink ticket and a standard seat in the theater
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Ron Bohmer.

“I grew up on the west side of Cincinnati and saw my first-ever live theatrical production at Westwood Town Hall,” said cast member, Broadway veteran and event organizer Ron Bohmer. “Nothing makes me happier than to see theater flourishing on the west side of Cincinnati and the Incline is the pinnacle of that flourish. And nothing would make me and my Broadway pals from Mormon happier than to help solidify the Incline’s place on Cincinnati’s list of great nights out on the town!”

THE BOOK OF MORMON opens at Aronoff Center on July 31 and runs through August 5.

The Warsaw Federal Incline Theater opened in June 2015 and is a new, purpose-built, 229-seat performing arts center and parking garage in the Incline District in East Price Hill. Located at the corner of Matson Place and West 8th Street, the $6 million project was finished on time and on budget. All 45 performances during its debut summer season were sold out.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call the Box Office at (513) 241-6550

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July 2, 2018 · 1:41 pm

Outer Space, Nuclear Opera? THE BRADBURY TATTOOS to Premiere in Cincinnati, July 13 & 22

MISC_The Bradbury Tattoos logoComposer Zac Greenberg, who is already known for writing fusion jazz and rock music that is other-worldly, has teamed up with dramatist Michael Burnham to create a science fiction opera about space aliens, astronauts, nuclear war and the end of the world.

THE BRADBURY TATTOOS, based on the late Ray Bradbury’s short story anthology “The Illustrated Man,” will premiere at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 13 and 22. The opera is a presentation of concert:nova, a contemporary-classical ensemble founded by musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Partial funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

“The opera is about how people react to unusual situations,” Greenberg said.

Greenberg has composed music for Cincinnati Ballet, Blink! Cincinnati, modern dance companies throughout the United States, award-winning feature-length and short films, as well as multimedia and virtual reality programs.

“After David Bowie died, I was talking with Ted Nelson, co-artistic director of concert:nova, about how so much of his music was character-driven,” Greenberg said. “We wanted to do something similar, and then I started thinking about Ray Bradbury’s stories. We approached Michael Burnham to write the libretto.”

Burnham is a retired theatre professor, who formerly taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He has narrated symphony concerts for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony Opera and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, among others. His adaptation of Stravinsky’s “l’Histoire du Soldat”premiered at the Salt Lake Symphony Opera.

“Bradbury is not giving us cautionary tales here, so much as he is pointing out all the little things we want to and ought to hang onto and cherish as we struggle in our move toward a more just and loving world,” Burnham said.

Though the stories are different, they share a common theme of humans coping with a frightening future:

  • “Kaleidoscope” – The crew of a disabled spacecraft reflects on their lives, while drifting toward death.
  • “Zero Hour” – Children play a game called “Invasion,” which turns out to be more than a game.
  • “The Highway” – A husband and wife who live near a highway help refugees fleeing a nuclear war.
  • “The Last Night of the World” – A married couple goes about their normal routines, despite realizing that the world is about to end.

As in Bradbury’s original book, the operatic stories are woven together by an enigmatic character called “the Illustrated Man,” whose body is covered by animated tattoos.

“I feel that these are four really beautiful stories; probably some of the best from ‘The Illustrated Man,’” said Kelvin Chan, director. “Whether we are talking about the end of the world, or the atom bomb, or what it means to fall out of space after a rocket explodes, or Martians invading the earth through another dimension, these four stories really deal with how to be human.”

THE BRADBURY TATTOOS stars Ben Flanders, Thom Mariner, Pedro Willis-Barbosa, Melisa Bonetti, Jenna Schroer, Peggy Ann, Alex Schoeny, Kathryn Zajac Albertson, Dana Pundt, Thom Dreeze, Kelcey Steele, Naomi Lewin, Keisha Kemper and Michael Burnham.

The world premiere of “The Bradbury Tattoos” will take place at Memorial Hall, 1225 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday, July 13, at 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 22, at 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $40 general admission/$20 students and are available at www.memorialhallotr.com or by calling (513) 977-8838. Information about “The Bradbury Tattoos” and concert:nova is available at http://concertnova.com/bradbury-tattoos/.

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June 25, 2018 · 11:18 am

Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Runs July 12-15

IAP_Beauty and the Beast logoDisney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Inspiring Arts Productions
July 12-15
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy [Sycamore Township]

Directed by Beth Kenniv
Choreography by Grace Hart

Inspiring Arts cordially invites you to “Be Our Guest” at our 2018 summer show.  Experience the magic when Inspiring Arts presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, perfect entertainment for the entire family.

The heart-warming musical tells the classic tale of Belle, an intelligent beauty who is imprisoned in a forbidding castle.  She then forms an unlikely friendship with her captor, a hideous beast. The stage show features all the enchanted characters from the popular film including Lumiere, Mrs. Potts, Chip and Cogsworth. The unforgettable score with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice includes the show-stopping “Be Our Guest,” the rousing “Gaston” and the romantic “Beauty and the Beast,” plus additional songs not heard in the film.

Also, join the Inspiring Arts Princesses an hour before each performance for a very special event.  Join us for a sweet treat, making a craft, meeting the princesses, and participation in an interactive presentation.  These special event tickets are $8.00 per child.  (Please note The Princess Party tickets are separate from Beauty and the Beast performance tickets.)

The enchantment begins on July 12th at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.

Tickets are now on sale.

  • Thursday, July 12th at 7:00 pm
  • Friday, July 13th at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
  • Saturday, July 14th at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
  • Sunday, July 15th at 3:00 pm 

http://www.inspiringartsproductions.com

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