SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
Composer Beth Wiemann will join us to discuss her work on this world-premiere opera-film on Friday, March 31 at 6 p.m., and on Sunday, April 2 between our 1 and 3 p.m. screenings. On April 2, she will be joined by Linda Marshall of the Nichols House Museum. Please join us for one of these enriching conversations!
37 minutes. Not Rated. Directed by Cara Consilvio. Sung in English.
Guerilla Opera presents I Give You My Home, a world premiere opera film inspired by the Nichols House Museum in Boston and the life of Rose Standish Nichols (1872–1960). The opera explores the life of the Bostonian women’s peace party and suffrage activist, professional landscape architect, and published author and brings to light efforts to affect change.
Her efforts are important and striking for their persistence in spite of the barriers, and she inspires future generations to pursue their unique passions and make an impact on their own terms.
I Give You My Home features music and original libretto by local composer Beth Wiemann and is brought to life by the acclaimed filmmaker, Cara Consilvio.
This cinematic interpretation of the world premiere chamber opera was shot on location at the Nichols House Museum (Boston, MA), which was the Nichols family home, and is now a public museum. Additional location partners include Path of Life Sculpture Garden (Windsor, VT), Saint-Gaudens National Park (Cornish, NH), Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House) (Dummerston, VT), and Scott Farm Orchard (Dummerston, VT).
The opera is a monodrama written for Guerilla Opera’s core ensemble members: soprano and Artistic Director Aliana de la Guardia as Rose, percussionist and co-founding artist Mike Williams and saxophonist Philipp Stäudlin and co-starring Daniela Isabel McDonough in her film debut.
I Give You My Home is supported by a Live Arts Boston grant award from The Boston Foundation and their partners the Barr Foundation and Dunamis Boston, The Puffin Foundation, and a CIP Projects grant award from Mass Cultural Council.
The company debut of Cara Consilvio was partially supported by OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors, generously funded by the Marineau Family Foundation.
The development of I Give You My Home has been in partnership with the University of Maine, Orono, The Switchboard artist residency program in Haverhill, MA, and co-produced by the Nichols House Museum.