Island of Hope, Island of Tears: First Look

Guerilla Opera presents Island of Hope, Island of Tears (working title).  Soprano and Artistic Director, Aliana de la Guardia and percussionist, Mike Williams perform a fully-staged scene from this world premiere multimedia and immersive opera that reminds us that we are all wanderers looking for a place to call home.
This work breathes life into forgotten voices of our past through the true stories and actual voices of immigrants to the US from oral and written interviews documented in the Ellis Island Oral Histories. Explore themes of the clash of cultural identities, the artifacts immigrants bring to this country, and the acceptance or intolerance of different immigrant cultures through time, while encountering stories that are human, true, touching, and eliciting emotions we can all relate to.