Vagabond Opera

Location:
PORTLAND, Oregon, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Indie / Jazz / Experimental
Site(s):
European Cabaret! Vintage Americana! Balkan Belly Dance! Neo-Classical Opera! Old World Yiddish Theater! Welcome to the six-piece, Portland, Oregon-based Vagabond Opera. Based in the Pacific Northwest, yet encompassing the world, Vagabond Opera delivers passionate offerings of Bohemian cabaret. Paris hot Jazz, gut bucket swing, Tangos, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads, Klezmer and vigorous originals meet a world of riverboat gambling queens, Turkish belly dancers, and the enigmatic Marlene Dietrich. Weaving elements of Kurt Weil, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf with absurdist flair, theatrics and an old world mood, Vagabond Opera presents the new wave of opera--lusty (trained) voices singing in 11 languages and presenting a cabaret of rich musical phrasing, sparkling lyrics and indomitable stage presence, all played with exuberance, skill and a gritty Vagabond edge. This is Opera liberated and reinvented for everyone.
The band's lineup features trained operatic tenor and soprano vocals, accordion, tenor and alto saxophones, cello, stand-up bass, drums, and, when the mood is right, a burlesque hoola-hooping fire performer.



Vagabond Opera at the Ford Amphitheater, LA 2009
Live performance of "Granada," Music by Eric Stern (VO) words by Augustine Lara from the Opera "Fedora." (Police siren courtesy of LAPD).



Live performance of "Ravella" and original tune. At the Wonder Ballroom 2008



Vagabond Opera on the Silver Screen! Footage by Daflew.com Edited by Robin Jackson, 2008
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