The word opera comes from the Italian phrase, opera musica which means works in music. For one performance only, during the afternoon of April 23rd, 2022, from 3 to 6 pm, performance starts at 4pm, Shooka Afshar, Quantum Soprano, and Shane Guffogg, International Artist will make known their creative voices capturing the essential moment of their artistry. The event is curated by VC Projects, and will move between two rooms, where guests will not only hear a vocal performance but also view works of art that are related to sound. Shooka Afshar’s artistic language comes to us by performing arias. Selected compositions, Giacomo Puccini, “O Mio Babbino Caro” Gianni Schicchi opera, Vincenzo Bellini, “Ah Non Credea Mirati” La Sonnambula, “I Have Been Wandering” Wuthering Heights, George Gershwin “Summertime” Porgy and Bess are a few from the list that she will perform. Anthony Cardella, who is an esteemed pianist, and has performed in concert halls in the United States and Europe will be accompanying Shooka’s performance. Another aspect of Shooka’s performance is to pay homage to celebrated female sopranos, such as Leontyne Price, the first black female opera singer who made it to the Metropolitan Opera House as a leading voice. Shooka’s selections for the event are personally meaningful and important. Her reputation as The Quantum Soprano is nothing less. Her expressive talents will also include the art songs “Trois Mélodies” by Messiaen, “Bachianas Brasileiras Aria No. 5” by Heitor Villa-Lobos, and pieces by Benjamin Britton, Debussy, Schubert, and “Ave Maria” by Caccini, to name a few. Shane Guffogg’s artistic language often experienced as ‘visual harmonies’, (the artist hears color and sees sound), comes forth through modes of color, and transparencies of light. On view will be selected works from 3 recent series of paintings – “A Rose is a Rose is a Rose”, series, which calls upon the ‘laws of identity’, “At the Still Point of the Turning World”, influenced by T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”, and “The Counting of Days” partly inspired by the Gregorian Calendar and the days the artist has lived. These visual proclamations reflect not only the artist’s expression of color but his concepts of time and space, capturing what is often referred to as ‘the eternal moment.’ Shane Guffogg’s art looks through the lens of humanity at civilizations both past and present and views time as threads that connect all people. Guffogg, The Post-Post-Modernist artist sees his work as a visual language that is informed by the spiritualism of abstraction and the realism of the old masters. These two ideas are usually seen as separate but Guffogg fuses them into works that transcend and become testaments to thoughts that inform us of who we are in the 21st century. The afternoon promises to bridge together not only two artists but two art forms; visual poetry and music, skillfully bound. Both of these masters of their craft, see their role as universal, and Shaman-like, communicating a truth and raising the spirit to the next level. The atmosphere is designed to share the fundamental elements between visual and performing arts, and the explosion of beauty in all its multifaceted forms. This program is created to lift one out of this world into the next and should not be missed.