6/18: Rhymes With Opera presents: Criminal Intent

This Saturday, June 18th our unconventional opera friends, Rhymes With Opera, will be teaming up with the West End String Quartet at The Windup Space for a showing of Criminal Intent: a triple bill of crime operas and questionable morals.

Here is a bit of info on the program:

Baltimore composer David Smooke’s Criminal Element, composed for Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet, is an experimental journey through the mind of the French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, who nearly brought down the entire European financial system in 2008. The composer describes the new nonopera composed in a fabricated language as “exploring the possibilities of sound in order to consider issues of class and how minor errors can lead to dire consequences.”


In addition to the new work by Smooke, Rhymes With Opera and the West End String Quartet will perform short operas by composers George Lam (Boston) and Ryan Jesperson (Hartford). Lam’s thrilling mystery Someone Anyone holds us breathless as we follow a prostitute held hostage by her client, and Jesperson’s Orphée Reduxbeautifully re-imagines the Orpheus myth in 1980s New York. In addition, the West End String quartet will perform an opening set including works by Kyle Gann, Alfred Schnittke and Ruby Fulton.

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Saturday, June 18th Doors @ 6pm | The Windup Space

12 W. North Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201

$10/$5 Students

*Party for Friends of RWO after the show!*

RWO and WESQ will also be making stops in Brooklyn, NY on Friday, June 17th, Hartford, CT on Friday, June 24th and Boston, MA on Saturday, June 24th. 

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