2022-23 Season
Mar 19, 21, 24, 25, 2023
Chicago Currents
Celebrating Chicago’s Waterways
Join us for a song cycle exploring the ecology and history of Chicago’s waterways. Our program will guide you through the pre-colonial era, Chicago’s non-indigenous settlement by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, to its development into a major industrial center. We invite you to connect with Chicago’s vibrant landscape and the rewilding movement hoping to nurture our home for generations to come.
Jun 24, 2023, 6 pm - 8 pm
Sounds of Pride
A Celebration of Pride Benefiting Chicago Fringe Opera & The Voice Lab
Returning for a third year, Chicago Fringe Opera will celebrate the immeasurable contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to the world of performing arts with a pride party featuring specialty cocktails by Spice Note Tequila & a brief, intimate musical program composed and performed by members of the LGBTQ+ community, including new works by Chicago area composers.Recently this Season
Come Home
Presented by the Decameron Opera Coalition
For the third year in a row, Chicago Fringe Opera contributes to the Decameron Opera Coalition's annual digital presentation. Fringe's video contribution to this year's holiday songbook, "DOC the Halls", will feature music by Matthew Recio and poetry by Jenna Lanzaro.
world Premier
Nov 8, 10, 2022
La Jetée
Chicago Fringe Opera joins forces with Access Contemporary Music and Lux Cantorum for a full world-premiere concert performance of Seth Boustead and J. Robert Lennon’s chamber opera adaptation of the cult 1962 science fiction film of the same name, later remade by Terry Gilliam as 12 Monkeys.Selections from Past Seasons
opera |
Two Remain |
concert |
Songs From Letters |
opera |
The Widow's Will |
community |
Sounds of Pride |
opera |
A City of Works |
opera |
Corsair |
opera |
Woyzeck |
opera |
Love Wounds |
concert |
The Rosina Project |
opera |
The Long Christmas Dinner |
concert |
The Rossini Project |
opera |
The Great God Pan |
opera |
As One |
opera |
Lucrezia |
opera |
Song from the Uproar |
opera |
In the Penal Colony |
opera |
The Turn of the Screw |
recital |
Far Off Light |
Supported by The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, The CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, & National Endowment for the Arts.
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