Upcoming Performances - 2023
Concert with Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO)
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Normandale Lake Bandshell
5801 West 84th Street, Bloomington, MN 55437
Performing arias from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the BSO and Conductor Manny Laureano.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 7 p.m.
Normandale Lake Bandshell
5801 West 84th Street, Bloomington, MN 55437
Performing arias from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the BSO and Conductor Manny Laureano.
Changing the Narrative
Journey North Opera (JNOC)
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 6:00pm
Urban Growler Brewing, St. Paul, MN
This is JNOC's third-annual summer event. For this performance, in which female, trans, and non-binary artists will share their experiences of encountering misogyny and discrimination in the performing arts industry and expressing their emotions around it through music in a variety of musical styles and genres. The outdoor evening performance will be held at Urban Growler Brewing, the first women-owned brewery in Minnesota. Performers will be accompanied by Carson Rose Schneider, piano.
Journey North Opera (JNOC)
Thursday, July 13, 2023, 6:00pm
Urban Growler Brewing, St. Paul, MN
This is JNOC's third-annual summer event. For this performance, in which female, trans, and non-binary artists will share their experiences of encountering misogyny and discrimination in the performing arts industry and expressing their emotions around it through music in a variety of musical styles and genres. The outdoor evening performance will be held at Urban Growler Brewing, the first women-owned brewery in Minnesota. Performers will be accompanied by Carson Rose Schneider, piano.
Dark Sisters
Journey North Opera (JNOC)
by Nico Muhly and Stephen Karam
September 29 at 7:30pm
September 30 at 7:30pm
October 1 at 2:00pm
Pay-what-you-can Cover Performance: Thursday, September 28 at 7:30pm
Southern Theater
1420 S Washington Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Performances will be fully staged with a chamber orchestra.
Synopsis
Dark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the FLDS Church
(Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism in the early 20th
Century largely because of the LDS Church’s renunciation of polygamy. The male founders of the
Mormon faith (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, chief among them) loom large in American history;
Dark Sisters puts the women front and center.
The narrative draws inspiration from the flurry of media attention surrounding the two most infamous raids
on FLDS compounds (the 1953 raid at Short Creek, AZ and the 2008 raid at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX)
as well as the stories of the over 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Set against a red-earthed
landscape filled with revelations, dark prophets and white temples stretching towards heaven, Dark Sisters
charts one woman’s quest for self-discovery in a world where personal identity is forbidden.
Journey North Opera (JNOC)
by Nico Muhly and Stephen Karam
September 29 at 7:30pm
September 30 at 7:30pm
October 1 at 2:00pm
Pay-what-you-can Cover Performance: Thursday, September 28 at 7:30pm
Southern Theater
1420 S Washington Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Performances will be fully staged with a chamber orchestra.
Synopsis
Dark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the FLDS Church
(Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints), a sect that split from mainstream Mormonism in the early 20th
Century largely because of the LDS Church’s renunciation of polygamy. The male founders of the
Mormon faith (Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, chief among them) loom large in American history;
Dark Sisters puts the women front and center.
The narrative draws inspiration from the flurry of media attention surrounding the two most infamous raids
on FLDS compounds (the 1953 raid at Short Creek, AZ and the 2008 raid at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, TX)
as well as the stories of the over 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Set against a red-earthed
landscape filled with revelations, dark prophets and white temples stretching towards heaven, Dark Sisters
charts one woman’s quest for self-discovery in a world where personal identity is forbidden.
Past Performance - 2023
First Ladies Suite
by Michael John LaChiusa
with Theatre Elision in Crystal, MN
Performance Dates
Thursday, April 27 @ 7:30 Wednesday, May 3 @ 7:30
Friday, April 28 @ 7:30 Thursday, May 4 @ 7:30
Saturday, April 29 @ 7:30 Friday, May 5 @ 7:30
Sunday, April 30 @ 2:30 Saturday, May 6 @ 7:30
To learn more, visit First Ladies Suite.
by Michael John LaChiusa
with Theatre Elision in Crystal, MN
Performance Dates
Thursday, April 27 @ 7:30 Wednesday, May 3 @ 7:30
Friday, April 28 @ 7:30 Thursday, May 4 @ 7:30
Saturday, April 29 @ 7:30 Friday, May 5 @ 7:30
Sunday, April 30 @ 2:30 Saturday, May 6 @ 7:30
To learn more, visit First Ladies Suite.