‘A Zine Opera’ is staged at Timucua this weekend Credit: Courtesy photo

Here’s a new original chamber opera that should go over well in the City Beautiful. After all, we have both a very busy annual Orlando Zine Fest and a vibrant selection of local zines currently on display at Orlando Museum of Art.

A locally grown collaboration between composer ChanJi Kim, soprano and librettist Keri Lee Pierson and pianist Sofía Cardi Bonfil, A Zine Opera is a love letter to DIY fanzines and the women who created them. (Think Riot Grrrl, think Lisa Carver, think Ben Is Dead, think Doris.)

The opera centers around a historian, Liz, in the 1990s who digs into a library’s archives to uncover the — fictionalized but based on reality — lives and works of women zine creators from that time. The ’90s were a golden age for zine culture, right in the middle of the alternative-music breakthrough, so the librettists have plenty to work with.

Color us very intrigued with this one.

7:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday, March 7-8, Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave., timucua. com, $10-$30.

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This article appears in Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2025.