UPCOMING EVENTS
WET DIRT
music by Collin Kemeny
libretto by Andrea L. Hart
IL NOSTRO POSTO NEL MONDO
music by Marco Emanuele
libretto by Marco Gnaccolini
Please join us for this double bill of works about queer love and loss. First is the World Premiere of Wet Dirt by Collin Kemeny with libretto by Andrea L. Hart, which follows a couple whose relationship is struggling after a mutual friend’s death. Following an intermission will be our first work in Italian: the US premiere of Il nostro posto nel mondo (Our Place in the World) by Marco Emanuele and Marco Gnaccolini, in which two soulmates find each other in multiple reincarnations across time, gender, and even species.
This will also be our first co-production with another storefront opera company! We are delighted to be partnering with New Moon Opera to share Il nostro posto nel mondo with American audiences.
Please note: Thursday, 5/16 will be a cover performance; mainstage cast performs all other dates.
PAST PRODUCTIONS
We've Got Our Eye On You
WE'VE GOT OUR EYE ON YOU
music by Nkeiru Okoye
libretto by David Cote
February 16-18 & 23-25, 2024
We are excited to bring you a Chicago premiere by award-winning composer Nkeiru Okoye and librettist David Cote: a one-hour comedy about seduction, just in time for Valentine’s Day! We’ve Got Our Eye on You follows the mythological Grae sisters on a series of encounters with the “hero” Perseus, whose charms are numerous (and abilities to control his impulses are few). Bring a date to this sexy, side-splitting romp at City Lit Theater!
TSOC presents: MICHIGAN TREES
MICHIGAN TREES: a guide to the trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region
an opera by Grey Grant
This Pride Month, join Thompson Street Opera Company for an exploration of trans identity through music and theatre. This 80-minute folk opera follows a transfemme person on a journey to self-actualization. The action centers on Orna, who in the opening scene is split into two beings-- one who represents how she feels the world sees her, and one who embodies how she sees herself. She embarks on a trek through rural Michigan in an attempt to become fully herself and along the way has formative encounters with both the plant life around her and a figure called The Mother of Trees, who acts as a guide to both the outside world and the universe inside Orna herself.
At a time of unprecedented open hostility towards trans people in America, we are honored to close our season with this story featuring a transfemme performer, written by a transfemme composer, about the complex inner life of a trans person who dares to live unconfined by the binary expectations of the world around her.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Orna, as she feels she is seen: Elektra Voyante (they/them)*
Orna, as she sees herself: Ariadne Lih (she/her)*
Mother of Trees Trio: Parker Carls* (she/her), Paige Dirkes-Jacks (she/they), Brian Pember (they/them)
Director: Claire DiVizio (they/them)
Conductor: Eli Chen* (he/him)
Pianist-Coaches: Cody Michael Bradley (he/him), Leo Radosavljevic* (he/him)
*indicates TSOC debut
THE KAMIKAZE MIND//WOULD YOU EAT ME?
This double bill of new works explores nothing less than the meaning of life….and what to do when your snack talks back.
THE KAMIKAZE MIND//WOULD YOU EAT ME?
This double bill of new works explores nothing less than the meaning of life….and what to do when your snack talks back.
THE KAMIKAZE MIND//WOULD YOU EAT ME?
This double bill of new works explores nothing less than the meaning of life….and what to do when your snack talks back.
THE KAMIKAZE MIND//WOULD YOU EAT ME?
This double bill of new works explores nothing less than the meaning of life….and what to do when your snack talks back.
DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH
This operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella cuts right to the heart of the human dilemma:
If death is a certainty, how do we want to live our life today?
DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH
This operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella cuts right to the heart of the human dilemma:
If death is a certainty, how do we want to live our life today?
DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH
This operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella cuts right to the heart of the human dilemma:
If death is a certainty, how do we want to live our life today?
DEATH OF IVAN ILYCH
This operatic adaptation of Tolstoy’s novella cuts right to the heart of the human dilemma:
If death is a certainty, how do we want to live our life today?