Events

2018

• Sat

  10

  Feb

  2018

  Salon d'Amour

  6:30 pm

  Location to be announced

  This private event and fundraiser will include intimate performances of original art-songs on themes of love. Join us for wine, appetizers, mingling, and beautiful voices sharing the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Catullus, Baudelaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.

  Attendance is limited, and tickets must be purchased in advance online from BrownPaperTickets.

  If you are a Patron-level Cult of Orpheus subscriber, your subscription includes this event – just RSVP here or send an email to music (at) cultoforpheus.org and your place will be reserved.

  If you wish to become a Cult of Orpheus subscriber to support our 2018 season, please visit http://cultoforpheus.org/site/subscribe/

  To follow updates and hear previews of this singular, intimate evening, RSVP to our Facebook event page.

• Sat

  23

  Jun

  2018

  Sacred Works I: recording release concert

  7 pm The Sancturary at Taborspace, 5441 SE Belmont, Portland, OR, 97215 (google maps)
  

  Join us for the release of our first full-length album, Sacred Works I, featuring original musical settings of The Emerald Tablet, four Sufi poems, selections from The Dhammapada, and two of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus.

  Tickets available now from Brown Paper Tickets!

  

• Sat

  25

  Aug

  2018

  Fifth Anniversary Concert

  8:00 pm Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR 97211 (map)
  

  

  Join us to celebrate and share five years of original, lyrical music, featuring our 2018 troupe and special guest performers.

  We will be performing material from our first album Sacred Works I: The Emerald Tablet, excerpts from our opera Viva’s Holiday, the opera miniature Daphne, and many other works including world premieres!

  Featuring our 2018 troupe: Sadie Gregg, mezzo-soprano; Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano; Dan Gibbs, baritone; and Ray Jackson, tenor.

  Also featuring Rachel Hauge, mezzo-soprano, singing Daphne.

  Also featuring guest performers Bergerette (Viva Las Vegas, Camelia Nine, Pat Janowski) performing Christopher Corbell’s settings of Baudelaire.

  Tickets are on sale! $20/$10 in advance ony ($10 student rate also fine for low-income sliding-scale). All tickets day of show are $25.

• Fri

  19

  Oct

  2018

  Viva's Holiday VINYL PARTY (Fundraiser)

  8:00 pm Jade Lounge - 2348 SE Ankeny St., Portland, OR, 97214

  

  Have you heard? We are making an album of Viva’s Holiday: An Opera in One Act! This work is a local treasure: a lyrical opera based on a true story of a Portland stripper going home for Christmas. Comic and poignant, it addresses sex work, family boundaries, self-realization, and the cultural tension between sex-positivity and patriarchy.

  What’s more, we want to release it on GLORIOUS VINYL, in a limited run. This party is a fundraiser, with the goal of funding the vinyl mastering and duplication. We will have prizes, performances, poetry and more.

  Please RSVP, comment, and invite others if you are interested in attending and donating. And DO plan to wear your sexiest vinyl outfit! ….if you can’t attend, please consider an online donation at https://www.gofundme.com/vivas-holiday-record-2018

• Sat

  15

  Dec

  2018

  Viva's Holiday Record Release Concert

  7:30 pm Winningstad Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway Ave, Portland, OR, 97205 (map)

  Viva’s Holiday: An Opera in One Act played to full houses and earned glowing press in its premiere run in 2015. Described as a “touching, intimate family drama” (Oregon ArtsWatch), it is a lyrical story about a young woman on an unconventional path testing the limits of family acceptance during a visit home. It is also a love-song to the Portland underground and the experience of courageous self-discovery.

  This concert performance of the opera celebrates the release of a new original recording of Christopher Corbell’s original score. Soprano Jocelyn Claire Thomas sings the role of Viva, with Sadie Gregg, Dan Gibbs, and Ray Jackson completing the cast and with twelve-piece chamber orchestra conducted by Erica Melton.

  The libretto is based on the memoir of Portland stripper, spokesperson, and writer Viva Las Vegas. Viva’s own vocal group Bergerette will also perform, offering selections of French secular vocal music from the Medieval and Renaissance eras.

  Tickets are on sale! Find them online, or at the Winningstad Theatre box office.