VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVALS’ JOHN DUFFY INSTITUTE FOR NEW OPERA presents Two Premieres:

Briar Patch (from Tales From the Briar Patch) and Companionship

Attucks Theatre
1010 Church Street, Norfolk, VA 23510
Friday, June 3, 2022 at 7:30pm
Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 4pm

These exciting one-act operas were created through the Virginia Arts’ Festival’s John Duffy institute for New Opera.

Nkeiru Okoye’s Briar Patch, the first in a rebooted triptych of short operas is family friendly and full of fun, paying tribute to the African tradition of storytelling for all ages.

The wry and witty Companionship by Rachel Peters sings the story of an aspiring baker who finally reaches the end of her obsessive quest to bake the perfect baguette when the 207,305th one suddenly comes to life.

Tales from the Briar Patch was developed by Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Institute for New Opera and the American Opera Project. Supported in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Friedrich Ludwig Diehn Fund of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Companionship was developed in The American Opera Project's Composers & the Voice (C&V) composer training program in 2011-2012.

*** This is not an AOP produced event.