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ONE OUNCE OPERA AND LOLA PRESENTS

THE JING-A-LING SUPER SING!

DECEMBER 30 | 4 P.M. & 7 P.M. | BATCH CRAFT BEER & KOLACHES

Jing-a-ling Super Sing with One Ounce Opera and LOLA

Join us for a festive and fun-filled event as One Ounce Opera and LOLA bring their Jing-a-ling Super Sing to Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches on Monday, December 30th! Experience the joy of the season with two FREE performances featuring classically trained operatic singers showcasing their wintery best. Plus, stick around and hang with us during social hours after each set - we’d love to spread some cheer with you! 

When:
Two shows – 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM (each set features different artists!)

Where:
Batch Craft Beer and Kolaches

This lively celebration is open to all ages, and registration is encouraged to secure your spot. Tax-deductible donations are warmly welcome and will be evenly shared between these two non-profit organizations.

Gather your friends and family, sip on some craft brews and coffee, and enjoy a magical winter evening filled with music and cheer!

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Event Details

• Date: Monday, December 30, 2024
• Time: 4:00 P.M. & 7:00 P..M.
• Venue: Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches
• Website: https://secure.givelively.org/event/lola-local-opera-local-artists/one-ounce-opera-and-lola-present-the-jing-a-ling-super-sing

Ticket Information

• Cost: Free

Presenter Details

One Ounce Opera

Founded in 2012, we are dedicated to reimagining opera in unexpected spaces – whether that’s your favorite neighborhood watering hole or a creative space we transform.

OOO produces opportunities for you to reflect, recharge, and connect – with yourself, your community, a story, or a cause. We encourage you to grow compassion for a different lived experience or see your culture reflected in an impactful and affirming way.

All while immersing yourself in a virtuosic, sonic experience.

We enrich lives and bust barriers by meeting people where they are in spaces that don’t seem out of reach regardless of socio-economic status or past experience with the art form.

At the core of everything we do is this statement:
OPERA IS FOR EVERYONE.

LOLA

LOLA's mission is to create innovative high-quality artistic experiences that eliminate barriers to connecting with the operatic artform, bringing artists and communities together.

LOLA commits to cultivating the future of opera by offering new approaches to this art form & classical singing & to propelling opera out of the grand hall & into the larger community at events in bars, parks, & small theaters. LOLA is particularly keen on giving Austin-based artists of all stripes unique & interesting outlets for their work that otherwise would not exist in the Austin cultural landscape. We work to ensure 70% of our cast and crew are female-identifying &/or from historically underrepresented communities (Latinx, Black and queer artists in particular.) Recent data tells us we reach diverse audiences & many who are new to Western classical vocal music. In 2022, we reached over 1,000 people through our programming at Waterloo Park, Mozarts, & our production of Lardo Weeping at CRASHBOX. Our audiences included people of all ages, families, & members of the LGBTQIA & BIPOC communities. 

Instead of a formal season, we stay open to collaborating with arts organizations & artists & finding ways to support each other & center voices that are not traditionally uplifted in the opera community.  

From LOLA’s first performance, we were already breaking from tradition by casting Puccini’s La Bohème with all treble voices. We intentionally set out to engage local singers of high quality as well as develop some new talent in the community.  Organically we decided to tell this story through a queer lens of found family, young love, & heartbreak.  

 Our most recent production, Lardo Weeping a new chamber opera by composer Stopschinski & librettist Galloway, gives voice to Dinah LeFarge, a quite large, sexual, woman with 5 dollars in her bank account struggling to find meaning, hope, & laughter while living in her single room apartment.  It is an exquisite meditation on finding beauty & value in unexpected places, biting criticism of fatphobia, & an unflinching look at an individual we all know but usually overlook for the easily digestible character.

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