{"id":1877,"date":"2024-09-22T16:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2025-08-17T17:19:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:19:46","slug":"vinyl-release-event-october-5-2024-for-roadkill-greatest-hits-a-roadkill-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroadkillopera.com\/test\/2024\/09\/22\/vinyl-release-event-october-5-2024-for-roadkill-greatest-hits-a-roadkill-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Release Event October 5, 2024 for Roadkill!!! Greatest Hits! A Roadkill Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roadkill!!! Greatest Hits! A Roadkill Opera<\/strong> is being officially released Tuesday, October 1, 2024, to commemorate the North American premiere that evening of Ferdinando Paer’s 1804 opera Leonora<\/strong> at Chicago Opera Theater<\/strong>. It is exclusively available as a Direct Metal Mastered, two-disc, 180 gram, gatefold LP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A vinyl release celebration for Roadkill!!! Greatest Hits! A Roadkill Opera <\/i><\/b>will be held beginning at 2 pm Chicago time, Saturday, October 5, 2024, at Vintage Vinyl<\/b><\/a> (925 Davis Street, Evanston, IL, 60201), the iconic vinyl record store immortalized in the film High Fidelity<\/i><\/b><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writer\/producer\/performer Stephan Alexander Parker, who worked as a light and sound man from 1979 to 1983 in Evanston’s rock and punk scene (The Front Lines<\/a>, Group Gomez<\/a>, Fat Lewy<\/a>, Peer Group<\/a>, The Bombastics<\/a><\/b>) and Northwestern University’s theatre scene (The<\/i><\/b> Mee-Ow Show <\/i><\/b><\/a>(five seasons); Hot Rhythm; Diamonds and Dust; The Decameron; <\/i><\/b>and Frank Galati<\/a>‘s Blood of the Walsungs<\/i><\/b>), will be on hand to sign copies of his double LP project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roadkill!!! Greatest Hits! A Roadkill Opera <\/i><\/b>is being officially released Tuesday, October 1, 2024, to commemorate the North American premiere that evening of Ferdinando Paer’s 1804 opera Leonora<\/i><\/b><\/a> at Chicago Opera Theatre<\/b><\/a>. It is exclusively available as a Direct Metal Mastered, two-disc, 180 gram, gatefold LP. A Roadkill Opera <\/i><\/b>is a new opera by Stephan Alexander Parker built on the music of the first act of Paer’s Leonora<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2024 vinyl release includes in its entirety the 2013 chamber orchestra studio recording of A Roadkill Opera<\/i><\/b> on three sides. The fourth side is devoted to Chicago-style improv sketch comedy by the outfit whose true story is told in the new opera, the Roadkill On A Stick Frozen Foods Theatre Company<\/b> <\/a>(active 1988 to 1992 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming) recorded live at their 1992 show Roadkill!!! Greatest Hits!<\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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