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Step inside the story.
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Voices After Dark
Our blockbuster chamber series is back!
Enjoy riveting storytelling and superb music by our Filstrup Resident Artist Company in an intimate setting where every audience member has the best seat in the house. 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Love On Hold
by Gian Carlo Menotti
by Jake Heggie
Baden Hall – The Laven Sowell Opera Center
1610 S. Boulder Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119This delightful double bill features two modern love stories.
The Telephone
Blessed Invention, extend your forgiveness!
In The Telephone, Menotti’s clever chamber opera, Ben discovers that the only way to propose to his phone-obsessed girlfriend Lucy is to, well, phone it in.
Fully staged and costumed. Performed in English with piano.
- Directed by
- Machele Miller Dill
- Music Director and Pianist
- Maestro Aaron Beck
- Lucy
- Margaret Stall
- Ben
- Sam Briggs
At the Statue of Venus
Together we’ll know beauty and drink of it deeply.
In Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus, a beautiful and successful woman awaiting a blind date endures a familiar cocktail of modern anxieties, until she recalls the beautiful gifts that love can bring.
Fully staged and costumed. Performed in English with piano. COMPANY PREMIERE
- Directed by
- Jason Sirois
- Music Director and Pianist
- Maestro Aaron Beck
- The Woman
- Stephanie Washington
The Telephone is presented by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., publisher and copyright owner. At the Statue of Venus is presented by arrangement with Bent Pen Music, Inc.
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Opera in the Key of Jazz
You’re gonna rise up singing.
Lynn Riggs Black Box Theater – Dennis R. Neill Equality Center
621 E. 4th Street, Tulsa, OK 74120Get Directions
Nessun Dorma when opera meets Jazz! Go Cheek to Cheek with versatile collaborative pianist, coach, and music director Megan Beth Argo and the Filstrup Resident Artists for an exciting evening of cabaret-style, jazz-infused opera favorites that will satisfy you Body and Soul!
- Music Director and Pianist
- Megan Barth Argo
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Maddie Breedlove
Sam Briggs
Lydia Gray
Stephanie Washington
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The Impresario
by W.A. Mozart
I am the Prima Donna!
Baden Hall – The Laven Sowell Opera Center
1610 S. Boulder Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119Get Directions
In Mozart’s lived-experience comedy, dueling divas duke it out for the title of Prima Donna while their colleagues and impresario frantically attempt to please and placate both scrappy stars.
Fully staged and costumed. Performed in English with piano. COMPANY PREMIERE
- Directed by
- Erin Scarberry
- Music Director and Pianist
- Maestro Aaron Beck
- Madame Goldentrill
- Alexandra Lee Johnson
- Miss Silverpeal
- Lydia Gray
- Mr. Angel
- Sam Briggs
- Mr. Bluff
- Christiaan Bester
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