VHO Performance History, 2015-2023
Opera improv night!
Tales with guitar 'round the fire.
Wine & song pairings at Barboursville Vineyards
Rosenkavalier in a contemporary staging & new chamber reduction
Opera Improv II
"Dichterliebe" immersively staged in a suburban home, and a "Frauenliebe" with new lesbian poetry
"Australian Outback Psychic" Kim Potts reads audience members' tarot cards with the help of messengers from the beyond
A new dystopian play by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell surrounds a scene from Tristan & Isolde
American premiere of Rameau's "Achante et Céphise, ou la Sympathie", with hiphop dance
Found marginalia inspires this VHO commission by Matt Boehler, staged in UVA's Alderman Library
Staged performance in Jefferson's Monticello, bringing the house's history to life in an immersive musico-soundscape
Opera Improv III
Privileged children Hansel & Gretel wake up in another reality, in Menotti's The Medium. Collaboration with Light House Studio
International Modular Set Design Competition, hosted by VHO & VMDO Architects
Sally Hemings after Monticello: with film installation by Marisa Williamson, and local documentary West Main St
Five Black women artists & scholars discuss what "Sally Hemings" means to them
Music from the Victorian Parlor. Staged at The National Gallery in D.C.
VA Premiere of Haydn's last & greatest opera
Deaf actors & opera singers perform scenes from Dialogues of the Carmelites
Developmental workshop for VHO's new opera commission by Matt Boehler
"Operamentary" feature film created by VHO's cast of La Traviata, documenting their lives as singers during the pandemic
Vocal & instrumental works immersively performed in a former soapstone quarry
A grandmother's memoir, found in a garden shed, brought to life. (Cancelled due to COVID)
Opera in the quarry returns for a second summer
World Premiere Commission by Matt Boehler & Miriam Gordon-Stewart, based on the play by Neil LaBute
Troupe member Janinah Burnett brings her band of jazz all-stars to C'ville for an incredible night of "clazz" fusion
VHO's groundbreaking Deaf opera in March 2023, feat. Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" and a new play in ASL by Miriam Gordon-Stewart (with Willy Conley) & poetry by Gregory Orr.
VHO takes Ned Rorem's confessional, epic masterpiece on Tour in Fall 2023.