Heartbeat Opera's QUANDO

April 7: 7:00pm
April 8: 4:30pm & 7:30pm
April 9: 4:30pm & 7:30pm

Featuring Disruptor Musicians Jessie Cox and Mx Oww [an identity created by composer-performer Patrice Michaels].

Some of the most beautiful and famous music from the operatic canon becomes the landscape for this fierce social satire of sex, activism, and the performance of everyday life. Music from Verdi’s operas La Traviata and Don Carlo and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice are repurposed and refashioned into a 25-minute short film that follows a starry-eyed young couple as their night on the town unravels into a surrealist swirl of decadence, intrigue, and ultimately, vengeful justice.

The short film will be screened as is, and then followed by a second presentation that features Jessie Cox and Mx Oww actively disrupting and reconstituting the music from the score for a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. No two performances will be the same, as the ending will change with each iteration of the live performances, and audiences will be challenged to re-examine their perceptions of art and its role in societal transformation.

NO EVIL Projects is an initiative meant to create a self-replenishing fund of seed money for new projects in the opera field by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) creators. At the McKittrick Hotel, an arts space for eclectic interactive performances and socializing.

Tickets: https://mckittrickhotel.com/the-club-car/quando/#/