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The final aria from “SALT” written and with stage direction by Deniz Khateri, music and sound design by Bahar Royaee, video projection design by Nuozhou Wang, lighting design by Keithlyn Parkman, Sound by Silken Audio and Bahar Royaee, filmed and edited by Ball Square Films, and with special thanks to Boston's Museum of Science.

"Ofelia's Life Dream" Part 3: Secrets. Written and with music and sound design by Caroline Louise Miller, additional sound by Andrea Merkx, directed by Laine Rettmer, video effects by Nuozhou Wang, and performance by Aliana de la Guardia.

Song cycle by Gabriel Bouche Caro featuring texts by Giannina Braschi and other Puerto Rican authors on themes of “puertorriqueñidad” and identity in exile. Filmed from a live concert, Dec 2022 at Americas Society. Click here for more info.

 

Written for the Bahué 2022-2023 Latinx Composer Miniature Challenge. Virtual world premiere May 6, 2022. Performed and recorded by Ariel Campos and Aliana de la Guardia.

Written for the Bahué 2022-2023 Latinx Composer Miniature Challenge. Virtual world premiere April 28, 2022. Performed and recorded by Ariel Campos and Aliana de la Guardia.

Canción (para mi niño) (Song (for my child)) written in the summer of 1990 as composer Orlando Jacinto García. Performed by Aliana de la Guardia. Recorded, filmed and edited by Scott Quade from live performance at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston New Music Festival, September 29, 2017.

Vollrath’s “Songs of Innocence”, a setting of William Blake’s poetry performed by pianist Yoko Hagino and soprano Aliana de la Guardia. Filmed in Rockport MA’s Shalin Liu Performance Center.

An opera-film by Guerilla Opera inspired by the Nichols House Museum and the life of Rose Standish Nichols, with music and libretto by Beth Wiemann and directed by Cara Consilvio.

Scene 5 from ELLIS by Gabriele Vanoni: "I rest my eyes..." aria (April 2021) Performed by Aliana de la Guardia and Mike Williams, Percussion . Video and stage direction by Laine Rettmer. Jeffrey Means, Sound Recording and Editing.

Aliana de la Guardia and Deniz Khateri team up as creative directors for a unique presentation of Kaija Saariaho’s ephemeral "Sept Papillons". Video/Audio by Jeffrey Means.

Songs co-composed by .Aliana de la Guardia and Tae Kim. Recorded from live concert at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, November 30, 2018.

From the song cycle "Mi-da-re-ga-mi" by Masaki Hasebe on poetry by Akiko Yosano. Soprano Aliana de la Guardia and pianist Tae Kim. (Feb. 2014)

Commissioned by KOEK (Aliana de la Guardia and Kent O’Doherty), 2014. Text adapted from Aristophanes’ Speech from Plato’s Symposium by Sarah Manguso. Performed by Aliana de la Guardia and Philipp Staudlin at the Boston New Music Festival 2016.

Semiosis Quartet and soprano Aliana de la Guardia performing "From Sleepless Nights" by Daniel Felsenfeld at Spectrum in Brooklyn, 2018.

Aria from "I Give You My Home”. Performed by Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director and soprano and Mike Williams, percussionist of Guerilla Opera. Music and libretto by Beth Wiemann. Edited by Nuozhou Wang. Photography by Craig Incardone. Direction by Cara Consilvio.

“Papillon” with music by Kaija Saariaho and “Ofelia’s Life Dream” written and composed by Caroline Louise Miller! Boston New Music Festival, live studio performance from HC Media, Haverhill.

Aliana de la Guardia sings "Why must I climb" from Ordeal 1 Part 3 of Guerilla Opera's live 2016 performance of Loose, Wet, Perforated by Nicholas Vines preceding the studio album. Filmed and edited by Ball Square Films. Audio recorded by Silken Audio.

Scene 2: A Magnificent Apartment from "Chrononhotonthologos: The Most Tragical Tragedy that ever was Tragedized by Any Company of Tragedians." QUEEN, TATLANTHE, and two LADIES. Video & editing by Ball Square Films and audio by Silken Audio. Performed by Guerilla Opera.

 

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