Bellissima Opera Premieres FUTURE PERFECT This Month
by Stephi Wild - Jun 14, 2022
Over the course of five years, 1300 young people were asked what matters to them, how they see themselves in the world and how to change it. Their texts and drawings became the basis for a new musical play premiering June 23-26 in Chicago.
Dreams Of 1,300 Chicago Youth Expressed In New Opera Premiering This June
by Marissa Tomeo - Jun 4, 2022
In 2014, an opera singer, a poet, and a teacher are coming out of a Unity Temple (Oak Park, IL) coffeehouse when the singer says, 'Let's create an opera with underserved youth.' This is story of how singer Christine Steyer, Diane Piette, a Chicago teacher at Nicholas Senn High School, and myself, an author and poet, began the journey that results in a world premiere of Future Perfect almost eight years later.
FUTURE PERFECT Comes to the Kehrein Center for the Arts
by Stephi Wild - Jun 3, 2022
In the World of Future Perfect, what is a Draglion? If you said a cross between a Dragon and a Lion, you're more than ready to meet one, along with flutterbys and other creatures in the musical and magical world of Future Perfect. The characters and lyrics of this modern tale of curiosity by librettist Christine Steyer are based on writings and drawings from 1,300 Chicago area school children.
FUTURE PERFECT Comes to the Kehrein Center
by Stephi Wild - Jun 2, 2022
In October 2014, Christine Steyer embarked on a partnership with Chicago Public Schools: performing opera excerpts for five different classes at Senn High School, and facilitating a space for the students to think and write through what it feels like to be labeled… what words like “Diversity” and “interconnectedness” and “transcendence” mean to them… and what a future perfect world would look like.
FUTURE PERFECT, a Modern Tale Of Curiosity, Comes to Bellissima Opera
by Marissa Tomeo - May 21, 2022
The Magic Flute meets The Wizard of Oz in this fantastical world premiere perfect for all ages!
From Bellissima Opera's award-winning Transcendence Series, Future Perfect tells the adventures of Miranette, a curious youth who leaves a forbidding society to go towards a future that she wants to see.
International Women's Day Concert Features Top Female Artists
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 26, 2022
Award-winning female singers are centerstage for an International Women's Day (IWD) concert celebrating this year's IWD theme, 'Break the Bias.' Working In Concert and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church present Bellissima Opera's International Women's Day Concert at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Oak Park.
Bellissima Opera Announces 2022 Season
by Stephi Wild - Oct 26, 2021
Working In Concert's Bellissima Opera presents in 2021-22: a virtual opera, a celebration of women artists, and a full-length live opera premiere.