The 20-21 HOT Digital Season

The 20-21 HOT Digital Season

Faced with a changing landscape, HOT is fully embracing the addition of enhancing our digital output that showcases some of opera’s favorite composers, arias, and unique one- acts while also cultivating the talent in Hawai‘i and exploring the intersections between opera and local cultures.

Bon Appétit! OPERA IN THE KITCHEN

Now playing / Pay-Per-View on HOT.Digital.VHX.TV – $15

Lee Hoiby’s one-act American opera starring HOT Orvis Resident Artist, Sarah Connelly, as Julia Child with piano accompaniment, based on an episode of The French Chef. Be warned – you’ll be craving chocolate cake by the end! 

CHICKEN SKIN SERENADES

Now playing / Pay-Per-View on HOT.Digital.VHX.TV – $20

A chilling musical treat conjured up by HOT Artistic Advisor Jamie Offenbach!  A mix of scary arias and art songs featuring Orvis Opera Studio members and dancers choreographed by James Wright, with a recording by Quinn Kelsey! 

AMAHL PROJECT – OPERA IN A BLACK BOX

Releases on Dec. 04 (1:00pm HST) on Pay-Per-View on HOT.Digital.VHX.TV – $25

Menotti’s charming one-act opera Amahl and the Night Visitors is the perfect way to celebrate the Holidays with HOT! Six singers filmed separately/socially distanced and edited together to tell the story of the three Magi who make a very special stop on their way to visit the Nativity. 

MOZART’S BASTIEN AND BASTIENNE

Releases on February 12, 2021 (1:00pm HST) / Pay-Per-View on HOT.Digital.VHX.TV – $20

Mozart’s one-act pastoral comic opera about a lover’s spat, presented as live-to-tape performance featuring three singers in a delightfully witty English translation and directed by HOT’s General Director, Andrew Morgan.  If Valentine’s Day has to be at home, why not spend it with Mozart? 

HOMETOWN TO THE WORLD

Premieres Spring 2021 / Pay-Per-View on HOT.Digital.VHX.TV – $25

Laura Kaminsky’s newest opera which tells the story of three characters from the community’s main ethnic/religious/linguistic groups whose worlds collide in the wake of a brutal ICE raid in rural Iowa. 

Hometown to the World

A chamber opera for three voices, chamber ensemble and chorus

Music by Laura Kaminsky / Libretto by Kimberly Reed

Commissioned by The Santa Fe Opera and Opera for All Voices

A co-commission with Hawaii Opera Theatre

By arrangement with Bill Holab Music

And more including free content and a discount to a special event…

Opera Kanikapila

Live-to-tape informal jam sessions mixing HOT opera stars and Local Musical Artists.