Schedule of the Event:

March 7 and 8, 2025

Opera Festival: A Zine Opera, by ChanJi Kim and Keri Lee Pierson

Opera Festival / Contemporary Classical Series: The Zine Opera – a chamber opera about Women, by Women, set in the world’s best living room concert hall, transformed into a European opera house for the occasion.

The Zine Opera is a fun and intriguing new chamber opera, created through the collaboration between ChanJi Kim (composer) and Keri Lee Pierson (soprano and librettist).

Join singer Keri Lee Pierson and pianist Sofía Cardi Bonfil as they tell the fictional story of Liz, a 1990s historian working in the archives of a library and uncovering the stories of pioneering women featured in Fanzines. The narratives will make you laugh and compel you to reflect, and maybe will even remind you of someone you love. Although the women are mostly fiction, they are based on real people of history and some personal stories of the creators.

The Zine Opera – A World Première!

Personnel:

Keri Lee Pierson, Singer

Sofia Cardi Bonfil, Pianist

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This performance is a part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Location: The White House

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March 9, 2025

Opera Festival: Bravo Chamber Orchestra

Opera Festival / Community Performing Arts: Performing Arts Matter is the initiative of Jeff and June Flowers. They have been active on the regional arts scene for many years, but they have recently stepped up their efforts and have become pivotal players in the performing arts community.

The Bravo Chamber Orchestra is a subset of the Maitland Symphony. These musicians come from all walks of life and gather weekly to make music, led by Alvaro Gomez. For Timucua’s first opera festival, they’ve prepared a special program, adding vocals to their usual instrumentation.

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

Personnel

Dr. Alvaro Gomez, Conductor

Stephen Mumbert, Soloist

This performance is part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Location: The White House

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March 14 and 15, 2025

Opera Festival: Mozart and Salieri with Musical Traditions

Opera Festival: Timucua is known to everyone as the world’s best living room concert hall. With the help of our ACS system, we transform it into a world-class European opera house.

Musical Traditions Inc. is the brainchild of Aleksandra Vargas, Sergei Kossenko, and others. They aim to bring high-quality vocal musical performances to Central Florida.

Here, they perform a chamber version of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s one-act opera: Mozart and Salieri.

Few relationships in history have captured the public’s imagination like that of composers Mozart and Salieri. Mozart, a child prodigy who’s natural gifts propelled him to the height of fame, and Salieri, a self made man overshadowed by his portent colleague. Letters between the two men reveal a cordial professional relationship of mutual respect. However, the two men were rivals, and the controversy surrounding Mozart’s death, fueled rumors of a more sinister dynamic. This one-act opera explores one theory of this infamous association that led to a tragic end for both men. It is sung in the English translation of the Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 verse drama of the same name. This opera is a thought provoking drama that will leave the audience wondering “what if….”.

Personnel:

Joseph Irrera, Piano
Aleksandra Vargas, Director
Stephen Mumbert, Salieri
Nicholas Matthews, Mozart

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Special pricing for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This performance is part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Please bring a bottle of wine to share.

Free parking available on Summerlin Ave. or at Wadeview Park

Location: The White House

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March 16, 2025

Opera Festival: VoxO, Vocal Arm of the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra

Opera Festival: The world’s best living room concert hall gets transformed into a European opera house, with the acoustics that come with that. VoxO is the vocal arm of OCCO, dedicated to bringing new and exciting music to the Central Florida audience. Here, they offer a strong program of operatic music that will leave you breathless.

Join VoxO, Orlando’s premier vocal sensation, for an unforgettable evening of music and community celebration. VoxO will take you on an unforgettable journey of gorgeous lyrical melodies filled with passion that is at times haunting, at times evocative, at times lively and upbeat. Come and hear choral works that are a fusion of Renaissance poetry and contemporary music, as well as beloved opera choruses. Enjoy a delectable musical variety of Lauridsen, Chilcott, Mäntyjärvi, Puccini, Delibes, Mozart, and even the theme song from Outlander!

Personnel:

- Claire Hodge, Director
- Pamela Armitage
- Jennifer Ayers
- William Ayers
- James Beck
- Michael Clossey
- Evan Couch
- Michael Creighton
- Jason Ernst
- Alice Fortunato
- Larry Fortunato
- Linden Gould
- Emily Heumann
- Rachael Joachim
- Brittany Payne
- Corrie Shaw
- Andrew Smith
- Enrique Ynaty

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This performance is part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Location: The White House

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March 21 and 22, 2025

Live at Timucua / Opera Festival: Timucua transforms the world’s best living room concert hall into an opera house, complete with appropriate acoustics. Vino & Voce, an aria/wine pairing experience

Join us for a captivating evening as Opera del Sol presents a unique show which pairs exquisite wines with enchanting arias. Each performance will not only dazzle your senses with stunning vocal artistry but also elevate the experience through thoughtfully selected wines that complement the emotional depth of each piece. Immerse yourself in a harmonious blend of music and flavor, where every sip enhances the beauty of the performance, creating an unforgettable night of operatic delight. Featuring selections from Mozart, Puccini, Strause, and other beloved opera composers.

In-person and livestream tickets available.

This event is a part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

Free parking on Summerlin Ave. and at Wadeview Park.

Please bring a bottle of wine or non-alcoholic beverage to share.

Location: The White House

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March 23, 2025

Opera Festival: Helena Collective: 6/VIII: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Opera Festival: We transform the world’s best living room concert hall into an opera house for our first Opera Festival.

The Helena Collective is a group of women with incredible voices, which started its life at Timucua, and continues to bring us into their world with music composed and performed from the point of view of women.

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Revel in the bliss and misery of marriage as the six ill-fated queens of the second Tudor king share their experiences of matrimony and acrimony in song, poetry, and spoken word. Featuring members of local vocal ensemble The Helena Collective as the queens, take a journey with each of Henry the VIII’s wives with music selections by Libby Larson, Hildegard von Bingen, Praetorius, and more.

The Helena Collective’s award-winning production, 6/VIII: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, originally produced by Opera Orlando for the 2019 Orlando Fringe Festival, will be remounted for Timucua’s inaugural Opera Festival. This original work is a powerful musical exploration of the stories of Henry VIII’s wives. Through a blend of classical and contemporary vocal works, the concert brings to life the diverse experiences of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, and Catherine Howard, portraying their strength, struggles, and resilience. With a stunning vocal repertoire for soloists and ensemble and a compelling narrative, 6/VIII is an evocative celebration of history’s most famous royal wives.

A strong, compelling performance in Timucua’s unparalleled acoustics.

Personnel:

- Sarah Purser
- Anna Eschbach
- Samantha Barnes Daniel
- Jillian Morrisini
- Lizzy Ariza
- Lynn Peghiny

In-person and livestream tickets available.

Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This performance is part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Location: The White House

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March 28 and 29, 2025

Opera Festival: Mozart and More with Opera Orlando

Opera Festival / Opera: Enjoy scenes from several of the most beloved operas of all time.
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
“Hm, hm, hm…” act I quintet

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
“Zitti, zitti, piano, piano …” recital and scene leading into it

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Wolf’s Craig duet

NORMA
“Mira, o Norma…”

DON PASQUALE
“Pronto io son…”

I PURITANI
“Ah te, o cara…”

DON GIOVANNI
Act I FINALE

Featuring: Thandolwethu Mamba, Kenneth Browning, Pedro Valdez, Nicholas Dieux, Kristen Marie Gillis, Erika Vasallo, Rachel Castillo

We transform the world’s best living concert hall into an opera house for our Opera Festival. Opera Orlando shares scenes from several Mozart operas, from joyous to riotous.

In-person and livestream tickets available. Discounted tickets are available for members, students, teachers, frontline workers, veterans, and seniors.

This event is a part of Timucua’s Opera Festival 2025.

Free parking on Summerlin Ave. and at Wadeview Park.

Please bring a bottle of wine or non-alcoholic beverage to share.

Location: The White House

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Date: March 7-29, 2025

Time:
March 16, 2025 from 2:30pm to 4:00pm
March 7,8,9,14,15,21,22,23,28,29, 2025 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location: Timucua Arts Foundation, The White House, 2000 South Summerlin, Orlando, FL 32806

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