Renegade Opera In The News
MusicWatch Monthly: The eternal hourglass of existence, from Abronia to New Wave Opera to Takács Quartet
In which we consider the possibility that “without music, life would be a mistake.”
October 10, 2024
Shameless reverence: Renegade Opera’s “Orlofsky’s Party”
RO’s modern retelling of “Die Fledermaus” at The Judy toyed with light opera conventions and contemporary social issues.
October 9, 2024
MusicWatch Monthly: The Great Work, featuring a new season of classical music in Oregon
45th Parallel Universe’s Garden Parties, Renegade Opera’s “Batman,” Deena T. Grossman’s new album, Fear No Music’s Oregonic season, and orchestras all over the state.
September 3, 2024
MusicWatch Monthly: Appreciating the Dead White European Males with Oregon Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Rogue Valley Symphony, Festival Chorale Oregon, and Willamette Master Chorus
The big groups play the big names, from Beethoven to Dvořák to Tchaikovsky to Bach. Also: Renegade Opera at the Hampton Center, Kronos Quartet and Imani Winds at The Reser.
April 4, 2024
2023 in Review: What we heard this year
A longitudinal study of everything we loved (and a few things we didn’t) in Oregon music this year, and last year, world without end, amen.
December 30, 2023
A kind of shelter: Renegade Opera’s ‘American Patriots’ and ‘She Loves You Back’
The local opera company’s Artists in Conversation Festival featured Samantha Rose Williams’ interview-based staged song cycle and music by Oregon composer Lisa Neher.
December 19, 2023
‘The battles are all for naught, yet always they must be fought’: Unpacking the meanings of ‘Adam’s Run,’ performed by Renegade Opera
The Portland production of the doomsaying contemporary opera balanced farce and gloom.
September 19, 2023
Stage & Studio: Renegades of the Opera
Renegade Opera's artistic director, Danielle Jagelski, talks about the company's beginnings, its approach to opera, and its upcoming production, "Adam's Run."
August 31, 2023
The staggering beauty of avifauna: Renegade Opera’s ‘Bird Songs of Opera’
The Portland company presented a refreshingly inventive birdsong-themed outdoor program at Leach Botanical Garden.
May 23, 2023
Clemency and transparency: Renegade Opera’s immersive ‘Tito’
The Portland company’s modern adaptation of Mozart’s opera merges formidable singing with contemporary political commentary.
August 11, 2022
The Cultural Landscape: Part 4
K.B. Dixon's series of portraits continues with the Oregon Symphony's Scott Showalter, Renegade Opera's Madeline Ross, theater leader Michael Mendelson, poet Genevieve DeGuzman, and roots music legend Lloyd Jones.
July 29, 2022
Renegade Opera Takes Portland by Storm
“Upstart company innovates immersive, accessible approaches to an age-old artform”
Spring 2022
Opera: There and Back Again
Renegade Opera’s "Orfeo in Underland" chronicles a tragic and transcendent journey to the afterlife.
July 30, 2021
New horizons: Renegade Opera
"... Maddy called me up a year ago, and she was like, let’s start this thing. I have an idea, it’s called Renegade Opera.”
April 6, 2021