Category Archives: opera

FELLOW TRAVELERS
UC College-Conservatory of Music Opera
March 30-April 1
[University Heights]

William R. Langley, conductor
Daria Zholnerova, co-director
Greg Eldridge, co-director

Fellow Travelers takes place in 1950s Washington, D.C. Timothy Laughlin is a recent Fordham graduate and devout Catholic who is eager to join the crusade against Communism. A chance encounter with a handsome, profligate State Department official, Hawkins Fuller, leads to Tim’s first job in D.C. and — after Fuller’s advances — his first love affair. As McCarthy mounts his desperate bid for power and internal investigations focus on “sexual subversives” during the “Lavender Scare,” Tim and Hawk find it dangerous to navigate their double lives. Drawn into a maelstrom of deceit and intrigue, Tim struggles to reconcile his political convictions, his love for God and his love for Fuller — an entanglement that will end in a stunning act of betrayal.

• Thu-Sat, March 30-April 1 at 8pm
• Sun, April 2 at 2pm

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AGRIPPINA
UC College-Conservatory of Music Opera
Feb. 16-19
[University Heights]

Brian McCann, conductor
Alison Pogorelc, director

Machinations, mind games and unabashed ambitions are rampant in the court of Claudius, Emperor of Rome. No one is more adept at manipulating the political lackeys than his clever wife, Agrippina, sister of the emperor Claudius overthrew. Power-hungry and keen on revenge, Agrippina will stab just about anyone in the back to get what she wants — her son Nero seated on the throne. When Claudius names his favorite general as his successor, Agrippina will have to play her cards just right. Considered Handel’s earliest masterpiece, sex, intrigue and sharp humor fuel this biting political satire.

• Thu-Sat, Feb. 16-18 at 8pm
• Sun, Feb. 19 at 2pm

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DIDO AND AENEAS + GIANNI SCHICCHI
UC College-Conservatory of Music Opera
Feb. 3-5
Cohen Family Studio Theatre [University Heights]

Kenneth Shaw, director
Brett Scott, conductor

Let your passions burn as Opera d’arte presents the tragic, but heroic love story between the Queen of Carthage and the hero of Troy. Henry Purcell’s only true opera, Baroque masterpiece Dido and Aeneas, is presented in a double bill with Giacomo Puccini’s raucous comedy, Gianni Schicchi, where we see a family passionately struggling to gain the inheritance of a dead relative, only to be outwitted by Gianni, who has his own passionate reasons to turn the tables! There is truly something for every opera lover in this double bill.

• Fi-Sat, Feb. 3-4 at 8pm
• Sun, Feb. 5 at 2pm

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