Queer Opera 2022
singers
scenes
songs
production team
musical ensemble
September 17 and 18 at 7pm - Opera Scenes
September 18 at 2pm - Songs
Lincoln Hall Studio Theater @ PSU
Amongst Andrew awards is a third prize at the New York Classical Music Artists International Voice Competition 2019. Andrew was in the Chicago Summer Opera’s production of Handel’s opera Silla (as Silla) August 2021 and most recent performance was as a soloist in The Constitution (Orchestra performance), a secular oratorio by Benjamin Yarmolinksy in May 2022 in New York.
Described as a “visionary composer” (Willamette Week) and a “maestro of beautifully wacky noises” (Oregon ArtsWatch), Neher’s compositions are inspired by the climate crisis, the tender love of family and friends, and the eerie mystery of deep ocean life. Her collaborators include the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Cincinnati Song Initiative, Third Angle New Music, FearNoMusic, Dinosaur Annex, and New Opera West. For more information, visit www.lisanehermusic.com.
With performances across North America and Croatia, Carolyn’s commissions include Fear No Music, composing a work for their HEARINGS concert in response to the 2018 Kavanaugh Hearings during their Justice: Just(Us) season, Eugene Opera’s Songs for Quarantine, and the Vancouver Opera’s New Works project.
As a singer, Carolyn has performed with Eugene Opera, Queer Opera, Portland Symphonic Choir, and the Oregon Bach Festival Vocal Fellows Program. She was a guest soloist for Vivaldi’s Gloria with the South Puget Sound Community College Choirs, and the Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia’s presentation of Handel’s Messiah.
Most recently, Carolyn sang with Resonance Ensemble and the Oregon Symphony to premiere Portland-based composer Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem; and was commissioned to compose a new work for the Portland Phoenix Chamber Choir to be premiered alongside the Pacific Northwest premiere of Margaret Bond’s Credo. For more information visit www.carolynquick.com.
singers
scenes
songs
click HERE for the poetry
Morning Opens by Jennifer Higdon
sung by Madeleine Tran
Prayer by Leslie Adams
sung by Andrew Egbuchiem
Sonnet: I Know My Mind by Margaret Bonds
sung by Carolyn Quick
From the Ashes She Became by Melissa Dunphy
sung by Lisa Neher
Heavenly Grass by Paul Bowles
sung by Wyatt Jackson
Open-Mouthed Gemini by Poe M. Allphin
sung by Jessie Bodell
Seascape by Benjamin Britten
sung by Jeremy Sivitz
Lift Me Into Heaven Slowly by Libby Larsen
sung by Angelica Hesse
Silhouette by Leonard Bernstein
sung by Maeve Stier
At a Dinner Party by Hope Salmonson
sung by Oliver Schulenburg
Snake by Jake Heggie
sung by Taylor Hulett
Will There Really Be a Morning? by Ricky Ian Gordon
sung by Francis Bigelow
Solitaire by Rosśa Crean
sung by Katya Powder
production team
Founder and Artistic Director
Stage Director
Kathleen Edwards
Stage Manager
Celine Clark
Assistant Stage Manager/Production Assistant
Ronnie Rantis
Lighting Designer
Jena Slater
Wardrobe Coordinator
Videographer
Recording Engineer
Photographer
Emmett VanVactor-Lee
Intimacy and Consent Workshop Facilitator/Choreographer
musical ensemble
Nyle Matsuoka
piano
Lou DeMartino
clarinet
Jonathan Villegas
cello