Guerilla Opera: 'I Give You My Home' Screening Tour
$9 ($7 PMA member/any student; DC/CC Member Movie Matinee free)
- Aliana de la Guardia, soprano (Rose Standish Nichols)
- Mike Williams, percussion
- Philipp Stäudlin, saxophone
Inspired by the Nichols House Museum in Boston, Guerilla Opera's latest world premiere film brings to light the efforts and passions of Rose Standish Nichols, a true-life Bostonian woman who was a women's peace and suffrage movement activist, professional landscape architect, and published author.
Performances are sung in English and are approximately 40 min in duration. There will be a VIP reception and a change to mingle with the artists directly following the live screening. The theater is ADA Accessible.
Note: Due to unfortunate technical issues with their projection system, The Colonial is forced to cancel their 3/26 screening of I Give You My Home. More information: https://thecolonial.org/
About Aliana de la Guardia, soprano (Rose Standish Nichols)
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.