I Give You My Home: The Rose Standish Nichols Story
$30-$70
- Aliana de la Guardia, soprano
- Mike Williams, percussion
- Philipp Stäudlin, saxophone
Boston’s Guerilla Opera and the Nichols House Museum co-present I Give You My Home, a world premiere site-specific chamber opera inspired by the life of Rose Standish Nichols, a true-life Women’s Peace Party and Suffrage Activist and professional landscape architect. I Give You My Home features music and original libretto by local composer Beth Wiemann and is brought to life by acclaimed theater and film director Cara Consilvio.
Wiemann's I Give You My Home brings to light the efforts and passions of Rose Standish Nichols, a singular Bostonian woman, in dramatic form on the site of the museum, which was the Nichols family home. Rose’s efforts to affect change through the Women’s Peace and Suffrage Movements and in her professional career are striking for their persistence in spite of the barriers.
Each performance concludes with a tea reception in honor of the tradition of hosting salons, which was started by Rose Standish Nichols and her mother.
COVID-19 Protocols: Audience members must show proof of vaccination, or show a negative COVID-19 PCR test result taken within 72 hours, or a negative COVID-19 take-at-home rapid antigen test taken within 24 hours of the event. All audience members must remain masked for the duration of the performance.
About Aliana de la Guardia, soprano
A Cuban-American artist with a multifaceted career as a soprano vocalist, entrepreneur, actor, and educator. A co-founding artist and Artistic Director of Guerilla Opera, Aliana has 15 years of experience leading this Boston-based performing ensemble and produced many newly commissioned operas with roles tailor-made for her ferocious stage presence and garnered acclaim for her "dazzling flights of virtuosity" (Gramophone) in "vocally fearless" performances that are "fizzing with theatrical commitment" (The Boston Globe).
Specializing in new music, she has enjoyed collaborations featuring today's most eminent composers with American Lyric Theater, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston New Music Festival, Center for Contemporary Opera, Dinosaur Annex, Enigma Chamber Opera, Ludovico Ensemble, Monadnock Music, New Gallery Concert Series, Transient Canvas, and Winsor Music, among others. As a recording artist, she can be heard on Navona and Ravello Records (labels under PARMA Recordings), BMOP Sound, and independent labels.
With accumulated experience in arts administration, she has received accolades that put her at the forefront of the next generation of arts leadership including the OPERA America Mentorship Program for Women in Opera distinction, and a Public Art Learning Fund grant award from the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA).
https://www.alianadelaguardia.com/About Mike Williams, percussion
Hailed by The Boston Globe as "one of the city's best percussionists," Mike Williams is an advocate for contemporary music, a member of the new music sinfonietta Sound Icon, the Calithumpian Consort, and is a co-founding artist of Guerilla Opera as well as former co-artistic director, with whom he has commissioned and premiered many new chamber operas since 2007. Williams has worked directly with many of the leading composers of our time including Pierluigi Billone, Philippe Leroux, Salvatore Sciarrino, Gunther Schuller, and Roger Reynolds.