Hops & Opera at Barking Legs Saturday

Enjoy craft beer with a concert by Voci Virili

There will be plenty of suds and singing on tap when the men of Voci Virili host Hops & Opera on Saturday night, April 28, in Barking Legs Theater

Hops & Opera is a concert that mixes classical singing by the men’s ensemble with l ocally brewed craft beer. For this eighth installment of Hops & Opera, The Tap House in St. Elmo will bring the beer.

“This is going to be really fun,” says Harv Wileman, founder and director of Voci Virili. “The Tap House is a new craft beer place founded by a classmate of mine at Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences.”

Chris Calhoun, owner/ operator of The Tap House and former Marine, and Wileman were in the first graduating class of CSAS in 1991.

Wileman says the program will range f rom opera to Broadway to famous male chorus numbers. These will include the tenor/ baritone duet from Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers;” “There’s a Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon for New York” from “Porgy & Bess;” “If I Were a Rich Man” f rom “Fiddler on t he Roof;” “O I si s und Osiris” f rom The Magic Flute; “There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame” f rom “South Pacif i c; ” and Verdi’s “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from “Nabucco.”

Featured soloists will be tenors Jeron Burney, James Frost, Daniel Spivey, Harv Wileman, Nicholas Branson, Michael Westmoreland and Bob Sauser; baritones Aaron Murphy, Scott Willis and Stephen Hawkins; bass-baritones John Mburu and Kim Thomp- son; and bass Harrison Cooke.

Terry Sanford will accompany the singers.

Tickets may be purchased on Barking Legs website. They are $.15 with a $1 handling fee. Each ticket includes two free beers straight from a Tap House keg. Additional beers will be sold for $ 4.

Seating is limited to 130. For tickets: www.barkinglegs.org.

VOCI VIRILI PHOTO Voci Virili is a men’s vocal ensemble made up of experienced community singers, directed by founder Harv Wileman.