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  • Garbage Quest DX

    Garbage Quest is an original semi-improvised homage to retro video games, presented by Baltimore Rock Opera Society featuring the band Garbage Masher. BROS puts the controller in the audience's hands, guiding our plucky adventuring party through quests, romance, and against the evil forces of Monetization in this 1 hour celebration of gaming, fantasy, and electronic music.

  • Lempira: Oro y Sangre

    Deep in the jungles of what is modern day Honduras and El Salvador, home of warring Lenca factions, Lempira's conquest is interrupted by an arrival of a dangerous new threat. Faced with the inevitability of colonial imperialism, Lempira must overcome his own pride, embrace a cause greater than himself, and unite the people he was once fighting against.

    LEMPIRA is the massive mytho-historic tale of the invincible Lord of the Mountain, condensing a decades-long resistance against Spanish imperialism into one night of theatrical spectacle. Based on true events of Mesoamerican history & mythology, this heavily stylized retelling is filled with Latin-inspired metal music, epic storytelling, and arresting visuals that capture the rich, awe-inspiring spirit of indigenous Latin American culture.

    With characters who use both English and Spanish, we invite the audience to look past the barrier of language and identify with characters through their actions and song. Rest assured, there will be

  • Ceremony of the Faceless (Feat. Blightbeast and Revvnant)

    Ceremony of the Faceless is a movement-focused scare attraction for the Halloween season, presented by the Baltimore Rock Opera Society. This immersive experience is a blend of spectacle, scares, confusion, fear, and pageantry, designed to evoke deeper, haunting meanings behind the actions of the faceless performers. 

    Each year, these entities undergo their ritualistic ceremony, existing briefly outside their humane facade, masked while in their faceless demon form. The purpose of this arcane ritual is to deceive onlookers, tap into the power of their demon lord, and regain their human disguises for another year. This process mirrors the human tradition of donning ghastly costumes for a night, but in reverse. These demons, masquerading as humans, infiltrate our society, subtly influencing our daily lives with their malevolent presence. 

    The ceremony underscores a chilling reminder that true evil often lurks within our everyday interactions, masked and unnoticed. When a demon successfully

  • A Computer That Loves (And Why Not to Build One)

    A Computer That Loves: And Why Not To Build One is a original universe-spanning sci-fi rock opera epic with a big (and heavy) heart.

    Created in 1964 and living until the end of time itself, Charlie the Robot contemplates his existence at the end of the universe and decides that he would rather not have been built in the first place. He sends a record back in time to the 1960's to convince his lost love and creator, Suzy Baker, not to build him, but that turns out to be the very thing that inspired his design. Through love, heartbreak, and assimilating the planet Charlie desperately tries to be human but just can't seem to figure it out.

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About Baltimore Rock Opera

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Founded in 2009, the Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS) is a passionate community of artists creating original live rock theater for metropolitan Baltimore. The BROS vision is to showcase the creativity and talent in Baltimore’s arts scene through workshops and performances that bring people together, strengthen communities, and highlight Baltimore as a desirable place to live.
BROS has produced a new original large-scale rock opera every year since 2009, and has recently added a… more

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American Vamp

AMERICAN VAMP is an 80’s corporate satire rock opera about that heinous devil capitalism. Do you like shoulder pads? Bloodshed? Office behavior which frightens HR? The performance has a focus on Light and Shadow, a hyperawareness of time, and asks the questions 'What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to survive?'

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    American Vamp Show Poster

    Promotional image for  the upcoming production of American Vamp

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    • The Tale of the Caravan

    A fantasy of rock and roll based on the album Songs of the Caravan by Bardic Compass, with lyrics by Carl Hengen and Artem bank. Production and performances Fall 2026. 

    In the 452nd year of Valora’s Peace, The Second Age of Anchremór, The High Elf-Lord Aramis III used his total victory at the Battle of Rhidham to exert tyrannical rule over all the peoples of the continent of Arcanis. Using his arcane prowess and an alliance with the deceiver god Sithyros, Aramis succeeded in gaining a Lich’s immortality and extended his rule for nearly 800 years, covering the land in darkness and oppression. Finally, hope returned in the Third Age with the advent of the great heroes called “The Reclaimers,” who defeated Aramis and his allies. Using the Shards of Valora’s Spear, they renewed the seal which keeps the dark god Sithyros imprisoned and restored freedom to all the lands. But the seal could not last forever, and secretly the soul of the Lich endured. As the prison degrades, Aramis seeks to free his master and harvest souls to regain his former strength. Those who guard freedom and justice again seek out unlikely heroes who will take up the call to combat evil….

     

    • Tales of the Caravan (Bardic Compass)
      Tales of the Caravan (Bardic Compass)

      Bardic Compass Released 2023

      This album chronicles the D&D campaign played by the band and friends, and DMed by Carl. Each song pertains to a character or event within the campaign. The campaign follows the Caravan, a group of heroes conscripted to fight against the Jewelheart cult, a terrible organization bent on reviving the evil lich demigod, Aramis III Foyevair, with the help of a cruel evil black dragon.

  • Tales of the Caravan (Bardic Compass)