About this title: If you think the Who had the last word in rock opera and that Queen was the end all in operatic pop, the East Village Opera Company -- a powerhouse five-piece band with a string quartet and two compelling vocalists -- will have you rethinking those precepts. The success of foreign-language-driven pop by Josh Groban and il Divo no doubt made it possible for this unique outfit to adapt some of these opera classics into a 21st century context. The Mozart-composed overture (from "Le Nozze di Figaro") has some of those Who-like synthesizer speckles over an insistent drumbeat before a blistering ...
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Description: BRAND NEW. From the East Village in New York City comes the East Village Opera Company, a unique and exciting 11-person group that has been electrifying audiences since its inception. Their reinvention of classic opera arias into bonafide rock anthems is distinctly their own, with powerful live performances packed with non-stopenergy. The East Village Opera Company is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Peter Kiesewalter and vocalist Tyley Ross. The band also includes singer AnnMarie ... read more
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