Elliot Menard
Saturday May 9 | doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$15 ADVANCE tickets | $20 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID | pay what you can
Sulpicia Songs is a solo opera-theater fever dream composed & performed by Elliot Menard for voice, electronics, and keyboard.
Caught between an ancient and future self in the endless process of “coming of age,” Elliot looks to the 20 BCE poems of Sulpicia (the only ancient Roman female poet whose work survives) to explore her own 2026 CE growing pains and power struggles in love, work, and family. The music blends experimental opera with confessional pop, weaving Sulpicia’s Latin elegies (voice and electronics) together with Elliot’s songs (voice and keyboard) through personal stories. Projections by director-designer Rosie Tabachnick are both supertitles (text & translation) and glimpses into the inner worlds of each song.
Elliot Menard
Elliot Menard is a performer-composer and opera-maker. She creates, composes, and performs in interdisciplinary opera-theater that experiments with narrative and musical form. In her original work, she explores how text allows music to emerge, the expressive range of the voice, and lately, the latent music within Latin poetry. Drawing from her background in classical philology and classical voice, this “archaeological excavation” of sound is an abstract form of translation, focusing on the spaces between words and the multiplicity of interpretation. She aims to strike the right balance between clarity and abstraction, intention and intuition, decision-making and question-asking. She also serves as Director of Operations at Overtone Industries, which is part of her larger artistic practice of community-building, collaboration, and creating infrastructure that supports emerging voices in experimental opera.
Rosie Tabachnick
Rosie Tabachnick is a director, dramaturg, designer, multi-media artist, and champion of new work. Currently based in Philadelphia, Rosie is an artistic director at Commutator Collective, an experimental theater cohort in residence at a former acrylics factory. In addition to her theater work, Rosie is also a painter, sculptor, book maker, live event creator, and fiber artist.