Lucy, a monodrama composed for baritone and chamber ensemble by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, tells the story of psychologist Maurice Temerlin, who, along with his wife Jane, adopted a day-old chimpanzee in 1964. Naming her Lucy, their intention was to raise this chimpanzee as if she were their human child.

In the opera, as Temerlin struggles to hold on to memories of a happy family life, documentation from the experiment challenges him to come to terms with the project's ultimate consequences. In revealing the devastating effects of the experiment, the opera challenges audiences to consider the moral and ethical questions of animal research.

Lucy, a monodrama composed for baritone and chamber ensemble by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, tells the story of psychologist Maurice Temerlin, who, along with his wife Jane, adopted a day-old chimpanzee in 1964. Naming her Lucy, their intention was to raise this chimpanzee as if she were their human child.

In the opera, as Temerlin struggles to hold on to memories of a happy family life, documentation from the experiment challenges him to come to terms with the project's ultimate consequences. In revealing the devastating effects of the experiment, the opera challenges audiences to consider the moral and ethical questions of animal research.

Raise a paddle and a beer for Eugene Opera at our Fall Gala, a German-themed dinner with the music of Guns N’ Rosenkavalier!

Andrew WIlkowske, guitar & vocals
Lara Bolton, keyboards & vocals
featuring special gust, Siri Vik, vocals

with musical arrangements by John Glover and English Lyrics by Kelley Rourke

 Guns N’ Rosenkavalier is “a riot of rule-breaking, genre-bending tunes from the worlds of art song and rock,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Featuring the music of Schubert, Schumann, Fauré, Madonna, Kate Bush and Van Halen.   

Sunday Nov 3 at Honey
$10 at the door

Featuring Andrew Wilkowske on guitar and vocals 
Lara Bolton on Keyboards
with special guest KrissAnne Weiss

Andrew Wilkowske is a Twin Cities-based opera singer.  He was most recently seen in Mill City Summer Opera’s production of Così fan tutte. He was most recently seen playing guitar on the Ferris Wheel at the State Fair.  He was most recently seen eating pizza in his living room watching a Twins Game.  

Lara Bolton is a pianist, vocal coach, arranger, and conductor who works in several musical styles. She is the creator of Voxspex, an aria/soul/jazz fusion project, coming to the Twin Cities in February 2020. 

KrisAnne Weiss is a Twin Cities singer and voice teacher who lifts weights in her garage.  She hosts Albeit Opera Theatre’s Voice Labs and was most recently seen in Skylark Opera Theatre’s production of Most Happy Fella.

“When people hear ‘classical’ they think ‘dead.’ The music is described in terms of its distance from the present, its resistance to the masses—what it is not. You see magazines with listings for Popular Music in one section and Classical Music in another, so that the latter becomes, by implication, Unpopular Music.”
-Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise

Listen on WGUC 90.9

On the day of his marriage to the charming Susanna, Figaro discovers that his master, the Count, has taken a fancy to the bride-to-be. Dismayed, the clever couple enlists the help of the Countess to foil her husband’s unwelcome advances. What should be the best day of their lives turns into a head-spinning series of disguises, dupes, desire, and disorder. Can the servants turn the tables and achieve their happily-ever-after?

Six pairs of opera singers will face off in two rounds, with three celebrity judges - Dessa, Michael Christie and Jevetta Steele - who will ultimately crown one twosome as the final champions! The event moves to a different dramatic location this year: Minneapolis Cider Company.
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