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Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell
Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell
Tickets:
EARLYBIRD
$25 GA
PRESALE
$25 Student - use code STUDENT at checkout
(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door)
$25 IMSS Members Presale - use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout
(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door)
$30 GA Presale
DOOR
$30 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door
$35 GA at Door
“A Silver Gilded Hand-mirror or Whispered Shell” is a new opera by composer Lula Asplund, co-directed by playwright Allegra Harvard.
Told through a series of surreal vignettes, the work takes shape as an exquisite corpse—where each fragment adds to a strange, dreamlike whole. At its core are two enigmatic figures: Dr. Giunetti (Justin D’Acci) and The Green Lady (Vim Grace Hile), joined by a shifting ensemble of characters who emerge and dissolve between them.
The libretto was crafted to accompany seven chamber pieces Asplund began at Mills College in 2020. Once composed for string quartet, this iteration reimagines the music for a motley orchestra of Chicago-based musicians, blending diverse traditions and instruments. Among them: a hand-built Rebec by Alex Yelamos, performed by Andrew Seller.
Join us for an evening where past and present, the familiar and the uncanny, converge in an operatic experiment unlike any other.
Writer and Director - Lula Asplund
Lula Asplund is an experimental composer and Chicago-based sound artist. Her work invokes voice as object and atmosphere—dislocated, refracted, tactile. Using spectral play, vocal manipulation, and fragmented sound poetry, she enters the nonlinear logic of dream and memory. Asplund has a BFA from Mills College and has performed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, The Lab SF, CalArts, Elastic Arts, Bohemian National Cemetery, and Experimental Sound Studio.
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