Opera Cabal presents "Delusions: Chicago (2007)" at the Zhou B. Art Center

(PRLEAP.COM) Opera Cabal presents “Delusions: Chicago (2007),” a festival of new everything at the Zhou B. Art Center. Chicago’s hottest young musicians, dancers, actors & artists bond together in a collision course determined to bring to the stage the avant-est in avant-garde performance.

“Delusions” orbits around Ursularia, a chamber opera with intrusive thoughts of being trapped in the wrong genre. Featuring dal niente new music ensemble the opera charts the unlikely account of eleven thousand virgins on a sacred journey of death. Other Chicago companies to appear on the four-day “Delusions” program include Sonic Inertia Performance Group (dance & live musicians), the free improv jazz duo Asylum, Third Coast Percussion Quartet, toy-pianist & video artist Phyllis Chen & Robert Dietz, as well as a joint program featuring live painting & new music by the Zhou Brothers and ICE, sponsored by the Chicago Composers Forum. The Zhou’s third floor artists open their studios to the public for their “Third Fridays” art walk. Also on the menu: an installation by New York painter Brett Baker, and Madison’s Nonsense Theater Co.

Delusions Program

Thursday, October 18
7:00pm Brett Baker: Art Opening
7:30pm Phyllis Chen and Robert Dietz: “The Uncaged Toy Piano Roadshow (part 1)”
8:00pm Asylum: free jazz improvisation
8:30pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia”
9:30pm Opening Night Reception at the Zhou B. Café

Friday, October 19
7:00pm Sonic Inertia Performance Group: works by Burkhout and Coley
8:00pm dal niente: Reflections on the Work of Brett Baker
9:00pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia”

Saturday, October 20
3:00pm Third Coast Percussion: works by Skidmore, Reich, Brostrom, Muhly, and Cage
4:00pm Opera Cabal: works by Berio, Schwitters and Amherkanian
4:30pm Phyllis Chen and Robert Dietz: “The Uncaged Toy Piano Roadshow (part 2)”
5:00pm Nonsense Co.
9:30pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia”

Sunday, October 21
8:00 Nonsense Co.
9:00 Third Coast Percussion: new works by Takemitsu, Farina, Cage


Opera Cabal is a Chicago-based experimental opera & theatre company, founded by Artistic Director Majel Connery and Music Director Nicholas DeMaison. Opera Cabal specializes in bringing together writers, artists, and musicians to support and promote the creation and performance of cutting-edge art on the Chicago new music scene. For more information about us, visit our blog at <http://operacabal.blogspot.com/>, email (operacabal@gmail.com), or call at 773.771.8803.

Our collaborators are:
Brett Baker (http://www.brettbakerpaintings.com); Chicago Composers Forum (http://www.chicagocomposers.org/cgi-bin/public/index.cgi); dal niente new music ensemble (http://www.dalniente.com/); ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble, http://www.iceorg.org/); Nonsense Theater Co. (http://princemyshkins.com/nonsensebio.html); Phyllis Chen (http://phyllischen.net); Sonic Inertia Performance Group (http://www.sonicinertia.com/SIPG_Home.html); Zhou B. Art Center & Zhou Brothers (http://www.zbcenter.org/)

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