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A LAB STUDIOS is an open-armed theatrical venture to expand the experience of opera.


Launched in 2020 by Founder/Director Nathan Granner, A Lab Studios is a full-service production house, specializing in visceral storytelling and radical re-imagining of the operatic form, for both the live and virtual stages. We share a conviction to champion new voices, ideas and stories that resonate with today’s diverse audiences.

The thought to do great work inspires all of us. Opera, as an art form, is an artistic tool to foster those greater aspirations. From the composer's desk to the sound hitting the ears and beyond is a community of individuals, collected to bring that vision to life.

There are myriad of ways to experience Opera. A Lab Studios is bringing its own reflections of life to tell traditional and contemporary stories. We are telling these stories in different ways.

In essence we are creating more repertoire experiences by more people, for more people.

Thank you so much for walking through Hot Shots, the duet from Rossini's Otello, we are so proud of our collective work and have no doubt you will find yourself enjoying the thought of showing this to your patronage, and just may have you thinking of the future.

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new music video:

THE TWO HOT SHOTS
a Covid Vaccine Story

Adapted from Gioachino Rossini’s 1816 operatic adaptation of Otello We invite you to participate in our global release of this free piece of public art, in honor of National Hospital Week
(May 9 - 15, 2021) and Florence Nightingale's birthday (May 12).

Now Streaming on YouTube through May 2021


Thank you for joining us for our candy-addictive production of
Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Telephone!”

Limited release tickets available NOW!

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The Telephone - a new release

During the course of the pandemic, A_Labs (based in Long Beach) and Brendan Hartnett (based in New Jersey) joined forces, and with an old movie camera, a few lights, a 2012 Macbook Pro, and a Zoom connection, the team found a way to film and direct from across the continent.

While we will be premiering the production at The Lensic Center for the Performing Arts in Santa Fe, NM (It’s a limited engagement), we will be scheduling a public event early 2021!

“don’t leave an artist alone to create for too long”

far out magazine

 

Selected Works

From opera to pop to conceptual song cycles, Astroblab_Labs has a growing list of shows from conceptual offerings to PBS Broadcast collaborations

 
 
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WeeSmallHours

Based upon the smash 1955 Frank Sinatra concept album, Astroblab_Labs created a acid-trip romp through post modern jazz and rock

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Gulley/Granner

Two talented operatic tenors walk into a bar

A Tribute to Virgil T

Thomson has become a stranger in his own home town. That's one reason the event was significant. The other was the inspired collection of local musicians assembled by Nathan Granner.


Sing Out Loud!
Now in its second season -

Nathan Granner, Jamie Chamberlin and Ester the Opera Dog are back for another episode of "Sing Out Loud," and they have some great adventures in store for your littles!