After a wonderful series of performances in SF last October, we’re on to the next phase of bringing the Burning Opera to the world.
Our latest effort involves raising money to put out a CD of songs from the show, created in David and Renfey’s magical hilltop recording palace in LA. Go to Kickstarter and check it out here. Donors get CDs, the DVD — even the possibility of a private concert!
In the meantime, there all all kinds of tasty goodies from the show for your entertainment.
Here’s a Sizzle Reel which captures some of the energy and joy of these performances. The final DVD is still in production, but Mark has excerpted a few tasty cuts: check out a bit of Gypsy Dogs from the Teatro Zinzanni show, and also Poison Path. You can see a bunch of beautiful pictures of the show and cast by Michael Rauner here. He also created a beautiful book of pictures of the show, available for purchase directly through his site. It was inspirational to be part of such an exciting and well-received project, and we can’t wait to do it again!
Keep your evey on the Watch & Listen page — I just posted “Strange Weather”, and more will added as it becomes available!
And, of course we’d love to bring the show to live audiences in YOUR town! We’re in preliminary conversations with venues and producers in New York, LA and Reno — should we be talking to YOU? If you’re interested, contact us by going here.
If you missed the show, you can get some sense of what we were up to with these links: Here’s one review by Laura Casey of the Oakland Tribune, one on LaughingSquid from Mikl-Em, some nice Yelp feedback, and another from Jamie Freedman of the SF Examiner. In addition to Michael Rauner’s beautiful pictures of the dress rehearsal, the show 1/6, and some cast members, John Curley came to a rehearsal in Oakland and published a beautiful blog — HIGHLY worth reading and checking out his pictures! And for you non-Burners, here’s a fun blog post by a newbie who came and enjoyed the show. And our local NPR station did a really nice little piece, which is great because it has music clips as well as the explanations!
We hope to see you soon!
