2017 Summer Festival
“La Boheme” by Giocomo Puccini (in Italian)
The story is immediately familiar and bitter-sweet to just about anyone who shared an apartment with friends in their early 20s: four starving artists live in a loft apartment in Paris. They meet girls and fall in love. They argue with the girls, and find out that love is not always light and sunny. They come together as a community when funds are short and put their differences aside to help each other when it matters most. And they stand by each other when tragedy falls. Puccini's lush score is a romantic swoon you won't easily recover from.
Saturday, August 5th at 8pm
Wednesday, August 9th at 8pm
Sunday, August 13 at 3pm
The story is immediately familiar and bitter-sweet to just about anyone who shared an apartment with friends in their early 20s: four starving artists live in a loft apartment in Paris. They meet girls and fall in love. They argue with the girls, and find out that love is not always light and sunny. They come together as a community when funds are short and put their differences aside to help each other when it matters most. And they stand by each other when tragedy falls. Puccini's lush score is a romantic swoon you won't easily recover from.
Saturday, August 5th at 8pm
Wednesday, August 9th at 8pm
Sunday, August 13 at 3pm
“La Traviata” by Giuseppi Verdi (in Italian)
Verdi's heart-wrenching score lifts this tale of forbidden love in an age of class distinction and prejudice to noble heights. The young nobleman Alfredo and Violetta, a courtesan fall in love despite all social taboos. But her courtesan past is not so easily forgotten and threatens Alfredo's sister's marriage prospects. Violetta is faced with two impossible choices: leave Alfredo, or condemn his family to life of scandal and defamation.
Saturday, June 10th at 8pm
Wednesday, June 14 at 8pm
Sunday, June 18th at 3pm
Verdi's heart-wrenching score lifts this tale of forbidden love in an age of class distinction and prejudice to noble heights. The young nobleman Alfredo and Violetta, a courtesan fall in love despite all social taboos. But her courtesan past is not so easily forgotten and threatens Alfredo's sister's marriage prospects. Violetta is faced with two impossible choices: leave Alfredo, or condemn his family to life of scandal and defamation.
Saturday, June 10th at 8pm
Wednesday, June 14 at 8pm
Sunday, June 18th at 3pm
“‘Johnny’ Schicci" by Giocomo Puccini (in English)
“The Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti (in English)
“Black Horses” by Misha Dutka (in English)
In "Johnny" Schicci, money-grubbing relatives gather at the bedside of their "dearly departed" uncle in South Philly, eager to learn what he's left them in his will. But the bum left them nothing! All is lost! Unless.... Enter Johnny Schicci, a crafty neighbor. He has a fool-proof plan.... Except, this is a family of fools!
The Medium is set in the 1930s, where Babba runs a successful séance scam with her daughter and a stray mute boy. Her reluctant partners are the performers of parlor tricks that keep the customers coming back. But Babba crosses a line - in her conscience? in her psyche? - and soon it is impossible for the woman to tell where the trick ends and the real supernatural begins.
Black Horses, a new opera by area composer Misha Dutka, is about a team of horses preparing to pull a princess's carriage. The horses reflect that they once lead a pampered life in a princess's stable, until the new motorcars came into fashion with the wealthy, and they were sold to a cargo company. A jarring realization hits them when they meet their former employer in an unexpected way.
Saturday, July 8th at 8pm
Wednesday, July 12th at 8pm
Sunday, July 16th at 3pm
“The Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti (in English)
“Black Horses” by Misha Dutka (in English)
In "Johnny" Schicci, money-grubbing relatives gather at the bedside of their "dearly departed" uncle in South Philly, eager to learn what he's left them in his will. But the bum left them nothing! All is lost! Unless.... Enter Johnny Schicci, a crafty neighbor. He has a fool-proof plan.... Except, this is a family of fools!
The Medium is set in the 1930s, where Babba runs a successful séance scam with her daughter and a stray mute boy. Her reluctant partners are the performers of parlor tricks that keep the customers coming back. But Babba crosses a line - in her conscience? in her psyche? - and soon it is impossible for the woman to tell where the trick ends and the real supernatural begins.
Black Horses, a new opera by area composer Misha Dutka, is about a team of horses preparing to pull a princess's carriage. The horses reflect that they once lead a pampered life in a princess's stable, until the new motorcars came into fashion with the wealthy, and they were sold to a cargo company. A jarring realization hits them when they meet their former employer in an unexpected way.
Saturday, July 8th at 8pm
Wednesday, July 12th at 8pm
Sunday, July 16th at 3pm