For the launch of the first iteration of operaSHOP, Opera Cabal invited video designer, producer, composer and all-around technical whiz Alexander Overington to work with virtuoso cellist and singer, Teddy Rankin-Parker. Overington and Rankin-Parker first established a reputation touring as the opening act for Grammy Award-winning ensemble, eighth blackbird. The artists’ differing interests and talents make for a confrontation of operatic proportions. If opera is the meeting of two complementary but completely different art forms, Overington and Rankin-Parker come together like worlds colliding to a spectacular soundtrack.