East Village Opera Company Comes To Town Hall 3/20

 The Town Hall, Times Square's landmark concert venue, continues it's 2008 season with the powerhouse rock band the East Village Opera Company on Thursday, March 20 at 8:00PM. The popular nine-piece group returns to The Town Hall. Tickets for the show, priced at $40 & $35, are now on sale.

With fresh and bold contemporary "spins" on opera's greatest hits, the East Village Opera Company is a powerhouse rock band that transforms classic opera opera arias into songs evoking everything from the golden age of rock & roll to hip-hop, makes a triumphant return
to The Town Hall. East Village Opera Company, an outfit comprised of two vocalists, a string section and a rock band, has released two albums. La Donna and Decca/Universal's The East Village Opera Company.  Audiences will thrill to hear the East Village Opera Company's   "take" on classics from La Traviata, Carmen, La Boheme, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Faust, Griselda, Pagliacci and others. Don't miss the classics revived and electrified!   
 
The East Village Opera Company is an integrated and dedicated band set out to rock opera and electrify the classics, as the ensemble has been doing to spectacular effect ever since its New York stage debut in the spring of 2004. EVOC was co-founded by lead singer Tyley Ross and arranger/multi-instrumentalist Peter Kiesewalter, and since then have assembled a full-on rock band, adding two guitars, bass, and drums to Peter's keyboard's, then synched it to a string quartet. A superb vocalist, AnnMarie Milazzo, was recruited for impassioned duets with Tyley Ross and soaring solos. "We have a profound love and respect for opera," said Peter KIeswalter. "The pomposity of rock and the pomposity of opera, without demeaning or satirizing either form, the East Village Opera Company files where countless other 'classical-crossover' efforts have failed."

"We're very pleased to announce the return of the East Village Opera Company," said Lawrence C. Zucker, The Town Hall Executive & Artistic Director. "We're certain this will be another great show for this terrific company and their ever-growing audience."

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