2025-2026 Season
Welcome to Voice of Iris' second season! We are bringing back our popular staged song cycle event in November 2025, and will premiere our very first opera in May 2026.
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Interested singers: auditions are now open!
an evening of staged song cycles
November 7, 2024
November 8, 2024
Arlington Street Church, Hunnewell Chapel
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In our second annual staged song cycle event, singers will perform song cycles written by women and/or gender nonconforming composers. Cast and music to be announced. Auditions now open!
The Ninth Wave
May 17 and 18, 2026 | Grace Episcopal Church, Newton, MA
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The Ninth Wave is a new opera, composed by Laura Nevitt with libretto by Cailin Smith. It is based on an ancient Irish love story, told today through a queer lens.
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Auditions now open!
2024-2025 Season
Voice of Iris' inaugural season will feature three staged song cycles in the fall and a new choral opera in the spring.
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Auditions for our spring production will be announced soon!
We Are the Flame, We Will Awaken: An Evening of Staged Song Cycles
November 2, 2024 | 2pm
November 3, 2024 | 4pm
Arlington Street Church, Hunnewell Chapel
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This performance will feature three staged song cycles: Where They Hide by E. Isaiah Hopper; The Sharp Edges of the Earth by Laura Nevitt; and three songs by Dinorá de Carvahlo: Água que passa, O ar, and O fogo. Each meditate on themes of magic and spirituality, whether drawn from the earth, ancestry, or the divine.
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Featured musicians:
Regina Stroncek, soprano
Cailin Smith, soprano
Sage Fogle, piano
Christina George, flute
Christopher Hernandez, double bass
Isaiah Hopper, viola
Faith McKinley-Shiu, clarinet
Dinah: a story in song
First weekend of May, 2025
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Dinah: a story in song is a devised theatre piece telling the story of Dinah using existing art songs and poems. Using a collective creation process, Dinah's story will come to life again. Please be advised that Dinah's story includes sexual assault and violence.​
