Soprano Melanie Henley Heyn brings her renowned program, "What's Opera, Bruh?" to the U.N.OWENS MUSICAFE on Bay Ave. With heartrending arias and quick-witted repartee, Melanie takes the audience through the volatile history of opera, one tragic heroine at a time.

BENEFIT PERFORMANCE SUPPORTING HIGHLANDS BOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL EVENTS

TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR

Adults - $20.00

Highlands Borough Arts Council Members - $15.00

Children - $5.00

About Melanie Henley Heyn - 

After training in New York at the Manhattan School of Music, Henley graduated from the University of Southern California and went on to study triple Master’s Degrees at the Konservatorium in Vienna, Austria. She can be heard on the soundtrack of the cult television series Battlestar Galactica. Henley has premiered the music of living composers and collaborated with a who’s who of fantastic chamber musicians.  Singing a vast repertoire of music spanning the opera, concert and folk worlds, her 33 divas recording project combining classic Wagner, Verdi & Puccini roles with modern American opera heroines remains the #1 Most Funded Kickstarter for a Solo Classical Artist.

Heyn’s self-titled HENLEY HEYN VOL. 1 was born from two important aspirations of her early career: to be seen and to be heard. Raw authenticity and artistic freedom drive this operatic multimedia release, performed by Heyn herself and the Slovak National Opera Orchestra.  Now Henley, she has collaborated with an 85-member orchestra to bring the impassioned vision of HENLEY HEYN VOL. 1 to life.  In this Benefit Performance, she will share her unique and creative solo rendition of selected album pieces.