February 2020
TAKE ONE: Frida
Spend an afternoon with the cast and artistic team of the Alaska premiere of Frida by Robert Xavier Rodríguez! The stunning private home of Dr. Brian Chen & Tim Pearson is the setting for an all-inclusive afternoon of music, discussion, food & drink! Enjoy appetizers, wine, beer & beverages before a concert and an 'up-close & personal' panel discussion with the stars. Learn about their lives and career paths which led them to Anchorage Opera. Discover interesting facts about Frida,…
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“A telenovela set to music” The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the stuff of legend. Wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art kept burning bright. She painted fifty-five self-portraits, but no portrait is more revealing than the one in this opera. Robert Xavier Rodríguez's colorful music is a pitch perfect match for the woman, her art and her passionate life with its…
Find out more »“Frida” by R. X. Rodríguez
“A telenovela set to music” The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the stuff of legend. Wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art kept burning bright. She painted fifty-five self-portraits, but no portrait is more revealing than the one in this opera. Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s colorful music is a pitch perfect match for the woman, her art and her passionate life with its…
Find out more »“Frida” by R. X. Rodríguez
“A telenovela set to music” The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the stuff of legend. Wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to famed muralist, Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art kept burning bright. She painted fifty-five self-portraits, but no portrait is more revealing than the one in this opera. Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s colorful music is a pitch perfect match for the woman, her art and her passionate life with its…
Find out more »April 2020
“Tosca” by Puccini
“All’s fair in love and war” Step into a web of politics, police brutality, betrayal and jealousy! Set against a backdrop of war, chaos and corruption in Rome, the beautiful, celebrated singer, Floria Tosca, must give the performance of a lifetime to save the man she loves from the tainted hands of the treacherous chief of police. Will she murder for the man she loves? Will she save her lover in time? Will she emerge as the victor or victim…
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