East Village Opera Company

Friday, January 25, 2008
Jubilee Auditorium
Tickets: $25 - $40
Tickets available through ticketmaster: 299-8888 or www.ticketmaster.ca

Calgary Opera is thrilled to be partnering with One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo and the Students Union of the University of Calgary to present an unconventional concert performed by New York's East village Opera Company. This amazing group, comprising an energetic five-piece rock band, string quartet, and two vocalists, will be in Calgary for one night only to perform "rock opera classics electrified."

"The East Village Opera Company is an offbeat delight... its sheer audacity is exhilarating." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"This New York band deftly fuses rock and opera, delivering beloved arias ramped up with guitar and techno samples." - Entertainment Weekly

"The music of the East Village Opera Company may be unapologetically grandiose, as the mainstream media has noted, yet it is this self-serious treatment that allows for the seamless merging of the passion of opera and the pomposity of rock and roll." - Gay City News

Be one of the first to purchase tickets to hear this powerhouse band's inventive, hard-hitting arrangements of opera's greatest hits.

This event is a headline act of the 22nd annual High Performance Rodeo festival. www.oyr.org

Calgary Opera subscribers will have first opportunity to purchase tickets for this event, which will be on-sale early fall. For more information on the East Village Opera Company, visit: http://www.eastvillageoperacompany.com/