Check out production related media on our website! Operatheateroregon.com The continuous journey of this opera is beautiful, intriguing, and inspires all with encouragement, aqai-dika language, and the story of a very incredible woman; Sacajawea. #newopera #indigenousopera #nativearts
Join OTO Executive Director and all-around wonder woman Lisa Lipton TOMORROW for our Spring Soiree! This fun evening of inspiration and entertainment includes Hor’s d’oeuvres, Dessert, Wine, Performance, & “Operaoke!" Tickets at the door! Or on the website!
We’d love to have you join us! Get your tickets to the soiree on our website, and tickets to Sacajawea on @portlandopera website. Toi, toi, toi to everyone in cast and crew of Thumbprint on your upcoming opening! #operaportland #operapdx
Oose, Thanks and gratitude to talented Hovia’s husband Pete Yellowjohn for these commissioned, beautiful handcrafted traditional rattles for our upcoming Nu Nah Hup project. Can’t wait to share this music and story!
OPERA THEATER OREGON AWARDED CREATIVE HEIGHTS GRANT FROM OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
AUGUST 11, 2022
Portland, Oregon— Oregon Community Foundation (OCF) announced today this year's Creative Heights award for Opera Theater Oregon's Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story. “Many of this year’s Creative Heights grantees are elevating cultural voices, shining a light on little known history and launching significant new structures for artists to thrive” (OCF Press Release) Nu Nah-Hup was among the featured projects in this year’s release! "Sacajawea’s story will be told with some of the most amazing music in the world," said Rose Ann Abrahamson, great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea,"To be able to share her voice and the stories of her people through opera, ‘Oose’ from the bottom of our hearts." ~ Rose Ann Abrahamson, great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea
"We are deeply honored to receive a Creative Heights grant from Oregon Community Foundation to commission and produce Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story…We are so fortunate to be guided by Sacajawea’s descendent, Rose Ann Abrahamson. Working together to share Sacajawea’s story through opera will help preserve her Agai-Dika / Lemhi Shoshone language as well as celebrate her Indigenous perspective and contributions."
~ Lisa Lipton, Executive Director, Opera Theater Oregon.
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements of dates, cast and community partners to be announced soon!
“We are telling Sacajawea’s story, her story, from an Aqai Dika perspective from her female familial descendants and people, a woman’s story from women,” said Rose Ann Abrahamson, great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea. “This story will share the tradition, history and culture of Sacajawea from the viewpoint and oral history of the women of her people. The songs will express these aspects, and most importantly her language will be preserved through operatic songs.”
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts and cultural organizations throughout the nation with these grants, including Opera Theater Oregon, providing opportunities for all of us to live artful lives,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “The arts contribute to our individual well-being, the well-being of our communities, and to our local economies. The arts are also crucial to helping us make sense of our circumstances from different perspectives as we emerge from the pandemic and plan for a shared new normal informed by our examined experience.”
“Opera Theater Oregon is thrilled to receive our first award from the National Endowment for the Arts for this historic and important project. We are so excited to share it with you.” ~ Lisa Lipton, Executive Director
