Guerilla Opera to Live Stream GALLO, 5/22

Guerilla Opera will live stream the World Premiere performance of Gallo, a fable in music in one act, a world premiere chamber opera with music and libretto by Rome-Prize winning composer Ken Ueno, and direction by Metropolitan Opera stage director Sarah Meyers, on Thursday, May 22, 2014, 8:00 p.m. EST from The Zack Box Theater at The Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA. The stream can be viewed at https://new.livestream.com/guerillaopera/gallo and is free of charge to watch. Follow Guerilla Opera on live stream to receive news, updates and behind-the-scenes peeks.

This world premiere chamber opera investigates how the landscape and man shape and transform each other. It also addresses the fundamental question of ontology, "the chicken or the egg," and features a soprano in a Houdini box filled with Cheerios and a countertenor in a chicken suit.

Gallo is an installation and immersive experience performed in the round. The Zack Box Theater will be transformed into a boardwalk bordering a beach made of Cheerios, which serves as a repository of memories. In this landscape there are familiar items placed at random, as if prizes in a cereal box or rocks in a Zen garden. The audience sits on the boardwalk as the Mother/Shopper, played by soprano Aliana de la Guardia, and Galante/Farinelli, the Gallo, played by countertenor Douglas Dodson emerge from and disappear into the landscape. They experience memories and interactively question their creative existence.

Live performances of Gallo play Thursday through Saturday, May 22-24 and 29-30, 2014 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, May 31 at 2 p.m. with talk-backs on Friday, May 23 and Saturday, May 24, in The Zack Box at The Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston, MA. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 seniors and free for students with valid IDs; tickets can be purchased from The Boston Conservatory Box Office online or by phone at www.bostonconservatory.edu/tickets or (617) 912-9222. Gallo is sung in English and 70 minutes in duration. **The audience will be asked to remove their shoes before they enter the theater and invited to lie down during a portion of the performance. Please let The Box Office know if you require special assistance.**

For more information visit Guerilla Opera online at www.guerillaopera.com.

The live stream of this production is made possible by The Boston Conservatory A/V Department. This production is made possible through the generosity of Season Sponsors Timothy and Jane Gillette and The Boston Conservatory Ensemble-in-Residence program.

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