Thompson Street Opera Company

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Student/ Senior Discount

TSOC presents the revised premiere of Grey Grant's opera MICHIGAN TREES: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region This Pride Month, join Thompson Street Opera Company for an exploration of trans identity through music and theatre. This 80-minute folk opera follows a transfemme person on a journey to self-actualization. The action centers on Orna, who in the opening scene is split into two beings-- one who represents how she feels the world sees her, and one who embodies how she sees herself. She embarks on a trek through rural Michigan in an attempt to become fully herself and along the way has formative encounters with both the plant life around her and a figure called The Mother of Trees, who acts as a guide to both the outside world and the universe inside Orna herself.  At a time of unprecedented open hostility towards trans people in America, we are honored to close our season with this story featuring a transfemme performer, written by a transfemme composer, about the complex inner life of a trans person who dares to live unconfined by the binary expectations of the world around her. ARTISTIC TEAMOrna, as she feels she is seen: Elektra Voyante (they/them)*Orna, as she sees herself: Ariadne Lih (she/her)*Mother of Trees Trio: Parker Carls* (she/her), Paige Dirkes-Jacks (she/they), Brian Pember (they/them) Director: Claire DiVizio (they/them)Conductor: Eli Chen* (he/him)Pianist-Coaches: Cody Michael Bradley (he/him), Leo Radosavljevic* (he/him)*indicates TSOC debut

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TSOC presents the revised premiere of Grey Grant's opera MICHIGAN TREES: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region This Pride Month, join Thompson Street Opera Company for an exploration of trans identity through music and theatre. This 80-minute folk opera follows a transfemme person on a journey to self-actualization. The action centers on Orna, who in the opening scene is split into two beings-- one who represents how she feels the world sees her, and one who embodies how she sees herself. She embarks on a trek through rural Michigan in an attempt to become fully herself and along the way has formative encounters with both the plant life around her and a figure called The Mother of Trees, who acts as a guide to both the outside world and the universe inside Orna herself.  At a time of unprecedented open hostility towards trans people in America, we are honored to close our season with this story featuring a transfemme performer, written by a transfemme composer, about the complex inner life of a trans person who dares to live unconfined by the binary expectations of the world around her. ARTISTIC TEAMOrna, as she feels she is seen: Elektra Voyante (they/them)*Orna, as she sees herself: Ariadne Lih (she/her)*Mother of Trees Trio: Parker Carls* (she/her), Paige Dirkes-Jacks (she/they), Brian Pember (they/them) Director: Claire DiVizio (they/them)Conductor: Eli Chen* (he/him)Pianist-Coaches: Cody Michael Bradley (he/him), Leo Radosavljevic* (he/him)*indicates TSOC debut

Thompson Street Opera Company

Michigan Trees

4139 N Broadway

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