Orfeo Featuring Liz Kiger Tuesday September 15, 5:30 pm Join us for a screening and discussion with film maker, musician, and Goucher Alum Liz Kiger. Admission is free, but tickets are required. About the film: Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society is proud to present Orfeo, the story of the demigod of music Orpheus who travels to the underworld to rescue his beloved wife who has recently died. Along the way, in exchange for taming the furies with his beautiful music, he makes a “deal with the devil” that he can bring Eurydice back to the mortal realm, as long as he does not look back at her. An amalgamation of the various 1762 -1774 reform opera scores, this movie production of Gluck’s famous opera Orfeo features an overture of Kreisler’s rendition of the Gluck Melodie, an aria made from the instrumental ballet pieces, Naselli’s famous Eurydice aria sang by newly introduced character Persephone, lines from Dante’s Inferno spoken by the added characters of Hades and Charon, and a soprano lead portraying the title role. Filmed both outdoor and in our own modern abandoned hellscape on REDKomodo 6k, this operatic film is a huge undertaking for Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society and director/producer Liz Kiger’s second film. About the producer Liz Kiger is a Turkish-American non-binary soprano vocalist, violinist, and opera director specializing in Baroque performance practice. They are the founder and director of the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society, one of the first primarily digital opera companies, focused on providing LGBTQIA emerging artists with opportunities reinterpreting Baroque operas as feature films, thereby bringing opera to new audiences through inclusion and accessibility. Their work with BTCS has been featured on numerous podcasts and most notably via @360ofopera and OperaWire.com. They are currently Director in Residence for NJ’s Opera Atlantic where they directed a fully staged scenes production for Fall 2025’s Tales for a Starry Night. https://www.operaatlantic.org/... & 2024 They were in-production/post-production for the feature-length film Phèdre: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. They guest lectured at Yale University, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, and Columbia on early music topics. Their vocals were featured in the Kravis Nightcap Series, a NY Philharmonic event, with Chromic Duo. Their cinematic version of Gluck’s Orfeo, released 2021, won Best Female Director & Best Narrative Feature at the Anatolian Film Awards in Istanbul, Turkey. Liz holds their MM in Classical Vocal Performance and a post graduate degree in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. They received a BA in Music History and Vocal Performance from Goucher College.