Tenor John Riesen, Baritone Jay Lucas Chacon and Pianist Jon Garrett join together to create a virtual recital featuring famous duets from opera and musical theater.

Featuring:

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"O Mimi, tu piu non torni" from La bohème by Giacomo Puccini

"Lily's Eyes" from The Secret Garden By Marsha Norman

"The Confrontation" from Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg

"Addio fiorito asil" from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

"The Confrontation" from Jekyll and Hyde by Frank Wildhorn

"Au fond du temple saint" from Les pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet

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These artists come together from Michigan, Missouri, and New York to create music in a virtual way, continuing their craft and providing art and music for their audiences. 

2020 is a year of massive change for the entire world. The entire performing arts industry has been completely changed this year and every artist’s career has taken a turn they did not expect. Theater closures have left thousand upon thousands of artists with an empty schedule and no projects on the horizon.

With the absence of live theater, we must shift our crafts in a different direction. ViOp Productions is a company using 21st century technology to create collaborative performances. Through recording vocal and audio tracks, filming individually in a socially distanced environment, we create a cohesive performance for live stream, giving artists a new opportunity to continue working and creating.

Currently, ViOp Productions is producing a duet recital featuring tenor John Riesen, baritone Jay Lucas Chacon, and pianist Jon Garrett as well as a filmed version of Act 3 from La bohème by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

The vision of ViOp Productions is to continue creating film versions of operatic works, recitals and concerts. In the future, ViOp Productions with establish virtual readings of new works to help composers reach a wider, more global audience. Even once theaters reopen and we can return to live performances, ViOp Productions desires to continue creating virtual content for the operatic and theater world.

We are artists and we must continue to be artists.