- New York

OOT PRESENTS:

Thursday January 12th, 9PM

Freddy's
627 5th Avenue
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11215
NO COVER!

To reform or not to reform? That is the question.

So, it’s January. Time to make some changes. Stop drinking so goddamn much. Renew your gym membership. Start that new knitting project you’ve been meaning to get back to since last January. Lose the crappy job. Try meditation. Budget. Cut out sweets. Take a creative writing class. Limit your Facebook activity. Write your grandma a letter. Stop sleeping with your ex. Stop drinking so goddamn much!

yadda. yadda. yadda yadda yadda.... But come on, really?...

This January OOT celebrates the characters in opera who continually find themselves caught between delusion and reality (they usually revert to delusion, fyi). Time to enter the convent, join the priesthood, join the army, stop lovin’ that no good man, deny that star-crossed lover, stop sleeping with prostitutes, stop being a prostitute, quit drinking, quit gambling, quit playing with the devil, hold off on the smuggling, quit chasing the maid, lose the shady friends, stop sleeping with your dad’s wife, etc, etc. etc. Join us for a rousing operatic evening full of self-discovery, denial, disillusion, delicious mistake-making and heavy drinking! NO COVER! GREAT TUNES!

OTHER GOINGS ON:

SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story

Dramatic Libretto Reading at
The Brooklyn Lyceum
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!

Libretto by Timothy Braun

Music by James Barry

Stage Direction by Shela Xoregos

Monday January 30th, 2012, 8:30pm
227 4th Avenue at President St.
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Opera on Tap is pleased to announce its latest new music initiative: The Roadworks Series. Every year, OOT will commission a new made-for-the-bar opera with the intent of premiering it in NYC at one of our select watering holes and subsequently touring it to several of our regional Chapters. We are pleased to launch this series with the presentation of a new 25 minute opera by composer James Barry and librettist Timothy Braun entitled SMASHED: The Carrie Nation Story. Come and be a part of the creative process at this public reading of the latest draft of the libretto by professional actors, directed by Shela Xoregos. The evening will culminate in a performance of a recently completed aria from the opera. NO COVER!