“This is not your Mee-Maw’s opera …”
Columbia Operatic Laboratory is delighted to be back at Art Bar at 8:00 PM on Friday, August 20 to present a “Notoriously Hot *and Bothered*” concert and the original opera “Four Singers Walk into A Bar.”
The concert will feature music from opera and musicals that will take you from the heat of passionate love to the flames of anger, to the pits of Hell, and back to the sweltering heat of our fair city. Who knows what you will hear or what special guest stars may appear?
Four Singers Walk into a Bar tells the story of four singers who walk into a bar to sing and try to pick up dates. While they sing in foreign languages, there is a handy-dandy live translator to provide an English translation and a bit of color commentary. Columbia Operatic Laboratory founding member Maria Beery wrote the show as a way to make a recital of arias and scenes more interesting by weaving a plot through them. While the music is hundreds of years old, the stories are current and relatable.
This is not your Mee-Maw’s opera, and you do not need a music degree to enjoy a special evening of live entertainment.
Performers for the evening include singers Maria Beery, Michael Brown, Evelyn Clary, Jennifer Mitchell, and Craig Price, translator Andrew Skaggs, and collaborative pianist Bradley Fuller.
Art Bar is located at 1211 Park Street in Columbia. There will be a $5 cover, and donations will be gratefully accepted.
Columbia Operatic Laboratory, Inc. is a 501-c3 nonprofit aimed at providing arts educating in the field of opera. For more information, follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Photo Credits – Michael Brown and Jerryana Williams-Bibiloni