The Mirror Cabaret

Tickets on sale Now!

Date/Time: Friday, May 10th | Doors open @ 5:30 PM | Performance @ 7:30 PM

Ticket Cost: $25 – $50

Venue: City Winery Boston

Location: 80 Beverly Street, Boston, MA 02114

Music Director: Brendon Shapiro

Stage Director: Cassandra Lovering

Singers: Nina Evelyn, Maggie Finnegan, Lovely Hoffman, Wen Gu, Jamie Korkos, Emily Michiko Jensen, Brittany Rolfs, and Kayla Shimizu.

PRODUCTION PARTNER:

THE MIRROR CABARET

Willkommen, bievenue, welcome to The Mirror Cabaret!

Opera vs. Musical. Have you ever wondered about the parallel of operas and musicals based on the same story? Join MassOpera for an intimate, fun, and soul-stirring night at The Mirror Cabaret. Your favorite operas and musicals will be presented back-to-back to showcase how different musical styles can tell the same story.

Aida vs. Aida
Rusalka vs. The Little Mermaid
Madama Butterfly vs. Miss Saigon
Little Women vs. Little Women
Cendrillon (Cinderella) vs Into the Woods
Eurydice vs Hadestown

Featuring 8 of Greater New England’s finest opera and musical theatre performers, we welcome you to grab a glass of wine, a little nosh, and be swept away by The Mirror Cabaret!

Please note that ticket prices are not inclusive of food and drinks.

TICKETS

OPERA CAST

Emily Michiko Jensen – Cio Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Rusalka (Rusalka)

Maggie Finnegan – Fairy Godmother (Cendrillon), Eurydice (Eurydice)

Jaime Korkos – Cendrillon (Cendrillon), Meg (Little Women)

Nina Evelyn – Aida (Aida)

MUSICAL THEATRE CAST

Kayla Shimizu – Kim (Miss Saigon), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Jo (Little Women)

Brittany Rolfs – Ellen (Miss Saigon), Ursula (The Little Mermaid), AND Event Emcée

Nina Evelyn – Beth (Little Women)

Lovely Hoffman – Eurydice (Hadestown), Aida (Aida)

SINGERS

Nina Evelyn (she/her)

Soprano

Bio

Hailed as “powerful” and “ready for primetime,” Black American soprano Nina Evelyn’s mission is to diversify the classical music canon by promoting and performing the works of Black composers. In May, she will be joining the Heritage Chorale as Soprano Soloist in a concert featuring music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. This summer, she will be covering Gretel in Hansel und Gretel with Aspen Opera Theater. In 2022, Nina triumphed in her mainstage debut with Boston Conservatory at Berklee as the title role in Floyd’s Susannah, a production that was named a “standout performance of 2022 in Boston” by WBUR radio. Previous engagements include performances as Monisha in Joplin’s Treemonisha with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Micaela in Carmen with Opera North.

Maggie Finnegan (she/her)

Coloratura Soprano

Bio

GRAMMY-nominated soprano Maggie Finnegan has been hailed by Opera News for her ‘clear, poised and defiant soprano.’ This season: VALIS with MIT Media Lab, Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe with Odyssey Opera, A Messiah for our Time with New England Philharmonic and Haydn’s Creation with the Vancouver Symphony. Career highlights: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges with the Belgian National Orchestra, Louis Andriessien’s Odysseus’ Women/Anais Nin at the Muziekgebouw, the award-winning film of Ana Sokolovic’s opera Svadba with Boston Lyric Opera & Opera Philadelphia, Lembit Beecher’s Sophia’s Forest with Opera Parallele, Experiments in Opera’s world premiere film Everything for Dawn, The Queen of the Night in Mass Opera’s The Magic Flute, and a duo recital with Mezzo-Soprano Stephanie Blythe. maggiefinnegansoprano.com

Lovely Hoffman (she/her)

Mezzo-soprano/Belter

Bio

Lovely Hoffman is an Award-Winning singer, songwriter, and theatre artist. In 2015, Lovely received an IRNE Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Celie in the New England premiere of the “The Color Purple” at Speakeasy Stage Company. In 2017, she released her single, “My Black Is Beautiful,” a song about self-love, which went viral and reached #45 on the Adult Contemporary radio charts. Lovely has been featured on CNN and BET, and in Teen Vogue and Essence magazines. Theatre credits include Boston Lyric Opera, Reagle Music Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, Moonbox Productions, and The Umbrella Theatre. TV Commercials: Lysol “What It Takes to Protect,” NFL “We Ready.”

Wen Gu

Soprano

Bio

Wen Gu, a Shanghai-born lyric soprano now based in Massachusetts, holds an MM in Vocal Performance from Longy School of Music of Bard College. Her notable recent performances include portraying Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at La Voce Totale, soprano soloist in Beethoven’s Mass in C, and presenting her solo recital ‘All the souls I shared’. In 2021, Wen covered Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at Chicago Summer Opera. She also showcases versatility with roles like Lucio Cinna in Lucio Sulla and others. Wen’s accolades include second prize for Best Debussy Performance in 2019 and third prize for Best Mozart Performance in 2020 at the Great Composer Competitions. Additionally, she served as a young artist at Cremona International Music Festival in Italy in 2019.

Emily Michiko Jensen (she/her)

Soprano

Bio

Japanese-American soprano Emily Michiko Jensen has been praised for her “theatrical instincts and intriguingly versatile instrument.” In the summer of 2023 Ms. Jensen performed in a gala for the Goldovsky & Orfeo Societies through the Boston Lyric Opera, and returned to BLO at the start of the 2023-2024 season to cover Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly. This spring, Ms. Jensen makes her debuts as Mimì (La bohème) with Hawaii Opera Theatre and Musetta (La bohème) with the Borderland Arts Foundation. Ms. Jensen is a recent career grant recipient of the Olga Forrai Foundation. Previous engagements include, Tosca (cover) and Angel More & Susan B. Anthony cover (The Mother of Us All) at Chautauqua Opera. First Lady & Pamina cover (Die Zauberflöte) at Pensacola Opera. www.EmilyMichikoJensen.com

Jaime Korkos (she/her)

Mezzo-soprano

Bio

Acclaimed for her “winning and beautifully balanced voice” (San Francisco Classical Voice), and her “depth and sensitivity” (Opera Wire), San Francisco native mezzo-soprano Jaime Korkos is equally at home in classic and contemporary repertoire. With a background in theatre, Ms. Korkos is a versatile performer with leading and supporting roles spanning the operatic canon, having performed the title roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Offenbach’s La Périchole, Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Dvorak’s Rusalka, as well as other principal roles such as Anežka in Smetana’s The Two Widows, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Orestes in La belle Hélène. A resident of the Boston area, Jaime frequently appears with the Boston Lyric Opera, and is a regular cantor at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.

Brittany Rolfs (they/she)

Mezzo-soprano/Belter

Bio

Brittany is a full time Provincetown based performer. They have year round performance residences at The Gifford House and The Crown and Anchor. Upcoming shows include REEFER MADNESS at Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theatre, THE GREEN FAIRY, which Brittany co-wrote, directed, and produced, and BROADWAY ON THE BEACH, which Brittany produces and hosts at The Crown and Anchor. Brittany would like to express gratitude to the Mass Opera folks for including her in this.

Kayla Shimizu (she/her)

Mezzo-soprano/Belter

Bio

Kayla Shimizu is thrilled to performing with MassOpera. She was last seen as Vivienne in Legally Blonde (Moonbox Productions), Ensemble in Assassins (Lyric Stage), Ariel in Little Mermaid and Laurie in Oklahoma (Reagle Music Theatre), Natalya in Preludes (Lyric Stage), Catherine in Pippin (RMT) and Natasha in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (The Wilbury Theatre Group). Among other credits, she has also appeared in The Old Man and The Old Moon (The Umbrella Stage; Rogers Center of the Arts), and Avenue Q (The Umbrella Stage). Kayla is a graduate from Emerson College in Boston.

CREATIVE TEAM

Brendon Shapiro

Music Director

Bio

Cassandra Lovering

Stage Director

Bio

VENUE

CITY WINERY BOSTON
80 BEVERLY STREET, BOSTON, MA 02114

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