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    Join us for a wonderful evening of scenes from operas and musical theatre. The program includes selections from L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème, Of Mice and Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Maometto II, Knoxville Summer of 1915, West Side Story, Candide, and The Light in the Piazza. Prepared under the always exciting direction of conductor Brent McMunn and resident stage director Ken Cazan, this scenes program will tug at your heart and embrace your soul!

    Performance Order

    L’Incoronazione di Poppea
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Act I-IV, VI, VII

    Le Nozze di Figaro
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Act II, Scene I

    La Bohème
    Giacomo Puccini
    Quartet from Act III

    The Light in the Piazza (in English)
    Adam Guettel
    “Statues and Stories”
    “The Light in the Piazza”
    “Aiutami”
    “Fable”

    West Side Story
    Leonard Bernstein
    Quintet

    Of Mice and Men
    Carlisle Floyd
    Act I, Scene I

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    Benjamin Britten
    Act II, Lovers’ Quartet

    Maometto II
    Gioacchino Rossini
    Act II Trio: “In Questi estremi istanti”

    Knoxville Summer of 1915
    Samuel Barber

    Candide
    Leonard Bernstein
    “We are women”
    Act I Finale