Proving Up
Our Minnesota Premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s visceral one-act opera based on the short story of the same name by author Karen Russel, performed November of 2022 at The Southern Theater in Minneapolis after a 2-year COVID-19 postponement
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Changing The Narrative
Changing the Narrative is an evening of humor and heart - incredible Twin Cities-based, women and non-binary singers deliver a thoughtfully crafted set of personal stories and songs ranging across multiple genres and share their experiences facing misogyny in the arts industry.
Ghosts Behind the Glass
An evening of strange dreams, blood-curdling laughter, and curious things that happen at night, performed April 2022 at the Historic Mounds Theatre in St. Paul.
OperaTease
Opera with a little oh la la! Our acclaimed opera-cabaret series that is nothing like you’ve seen before. A captivating evening featuring the exquisite voices of Journey North Opera as arias are brought to life through the fusion of dance, circus, aerial arts, and cabaret!
The Rape of Lucretia
Journey North Opera’s inaugural performance, Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. Performed at Minnsky Theatre in NE Minneapolis, September, 2019.
Past Performances - Under our former title of Twin Cities Fringe Opera
Ariadne auf naxos
richard strauss
University Baptist Church,
Minneapolis
The St. Anthony of Padua Chapel,
Minneapolis
The opera that started it all! Conceived and directed by our beloved Audrey Stottler.
After a scheduling snafu, an Italian comedy and a serious opera are to be performed simultaneously in this opera-within-an-opera - did we also mention there are a slew of eccentric actors running around and two demanding divas to appease? Nothing confusing about that. The music of Richard Strauss stuns in this combination of equal parts absurd comedy and melodrama.
Stage Director: Audrey Stottler
Conductor: Brian Dowdy
Pianist: Thomas Bartsch
Cast List:
The Primadonna/Ariadne: Colleen Meier
Zerbinetta: Lauren Lammers
The Tenor/Bacchus: Joe Okell
Harlekin: Tim Murray
Scaramuccio/An Officer: Jonathan Flory
Truffaldino/The Music Master: Tyler Strobel
Brighella: Tracey Zavadil
The Composer/Dryade: Sidney Walker
The Dancing Master: Peter Frenz
The Major-Domo: Michael Lammers
A Wigmaker/A Lackey: Seth Bovis
Naiade: Esther Peterson
Echo: Mikalah Marx
Hänsel und Gretel
Engelbert humperdinck
Capri Theater,
North Minneapolis
Two children venture into the woods in search of food and a reprieve from their parents - what could go wrong? Engelbert Humperdinck transforms this Grimm fairy tale into an opera full of whimsy, greed, evil, and the importance of following your intuition. Some things really are too good to be true.
Stage Director: Emilia Allen
Conductor: Brian Dowdy
Stage Manager: Mallory Lammers
Pianist: Mijin Choi
Cast List:
Hänsel: Sidney Walker
Gretel: Esther Peterson
Peter, their Father: Jeff Martin
Gertrude, their Mother: Mary Laymon
The Sandman & Dew Fairy: Lauren Lammers
The Witch: Colleen Meier
Don Giovanni
wolfgang amadeus mozart
Anne Simley Theatre - Hamline University,
St. Paul
Love, lust, betrayal, deceit, and vengeance frame Mozart’s dramatic masterpiece. Three women pursue the murderous womanizer Giovanni, each for their own purpose - but will the day of Giovanni’s reckoning come? The complicated principles of human nature are examined in this classic tale.
Stage Director: Amanda Carlson
Conductor: Yuri Ivan
Stage Manager: Ellen DeYoung
Pianist: Julian Ward
Cast List:
Don Giovanni: Erik Erlandson
Leporello: Doug Freeman
Donna Anna: Colleen Meier
Don Ottavio: John deCausmeaker
Donna Elvira: Amy Wolf
Zerlina: Lauren Lammers
Masetto: Eric Sorum
Commendatore: Stephen Cunningham
Chorus:
Seth Bovis, Jon Flory, Andrew Elfenbein, Sullivan Ojala-Hembolt, Kristina Rodel, Georgia Jacobson