Our theme for the 2024 Opera Project Season is "Love is Love", and it reflects our commitment to inclusivity, and to stories and music that resonate with our diverse Greater Boston community. By celebrating ALL of our collective JOY and LOVE, we can shine light into the dark, with no looking back!

NEMPAC Opera Project welcomes new Artistic Director, Brenda Huggins. Brenda is a Boston based theater director, dramaturg, and puppetry artist with a deep interest in new work development, public art, and creating intimate and culturally resonant productions of classical opera. Brenda explains her vision in becoming Artistic Director of NEMPAC Opera Project:

"Building upon an impressive twelve year history of opera-making, I am thrilled to grow NEMPAC’s legacy of creating vital experiences for Boston’s most exciting emerging artists. Join me as we create opera with a focus on collaboration, artistic partnerships, artist development, and audience experience in the 2024 season.”

To read further about Brenda's impressive history as a stage director, dramaturg, and puppetry artist, please click the button below.

Whether you are single, part of a couple, or want to celebrate with your amici (friends), we’ve got your Valentine’s Day COVERED! Featuring a cast of some of Boston’s most exciting vocalists, join us for a whimsical evening of fan-favorite love (and sometimes heartbreak) themed arias, duets, jazz standards, and originals at our annual Amore Concert. With a delicious menu and special cocktails by City Winery Boston, this is a one-night only event not to be missed!

Featured Artists: Hosted by Leo Balkovets (Tenor), featuring special guests Nina Evelyn Anderson (Soprano), Mary Kray (Mezzo), and NEMPAC Faculty member, Harriet Hung (Piano).

All of your favorite Opera, Jazz, Musical Theater, and A-MORE!

EVENT DETAILS:

WHEN: February 14, 2024 7:30 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM)

WHERE: Boston City Winery, 80 Beverly St, Boston, MA 02114

This June 13 and 14, NEMPAC Opera Project returns to the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts in East Cambridge for an intimate, passionate, and whimsical production of Gluck’s beloved opera about love, grief, and courage, Orfeo ed Euridice. In our first ever Pride Month celebration, Orfeo ed Euridice inspires the LOVE IS LOVE theme for our season, in a modern take on this enduring classic that transcends gender.

Continuing our partnership with the Boston Festival Orchestra, this production will feature a nine piece chamber orchestra (including a harp!) with Music Direction and Conducting by Boston Festival Orchestra Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Alyssa Wang. Stage Direction by NEMPAC Opera Project Artistic Director, Brenda Huggins, and introducing the 2024 NEMPAC Opera Project Artistic Associate, Leo Balkovetz.

SAVE THE DATE!

June 13 & 14, 8 PM 2024

Tickets on sale in March!

We will have opportunities for companies and business owners to sponsor individual artists involved in our production of Orfeo ed Euridice. If you are interested please reach out to NEMPAC's Executive Director, Sherri Snow, at ssnow@nempacboston.org.

Thank you for reading and keeping in touch with us at NEMPAC!

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