Opera Scenes 2011
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… Continue reading Opera Scenes 2011
La finta giardiniera
A zany, moving, and beautiful evening of music by the young Mozart, La finta giardiniera is both a farce and a lesson in forgiveness. This slightly surrealistic opera is always fun and frequently heartbreaking. Don’t miss the talented artists of the USC Thornton School of Music’s Opera Program and the USC Thornton Chamber Orchestra in this rarely performed opera gem.
April 21-24, 2011
Bing Theatre
USC University Park Campus
Albert Herring
See the full photo gallery for Albert Herring A season of comedy begins with Benjamin Britten’s comic gem Albert Herring. Set in the 1919 post World War I British countryside, Albert Herring is an affectionate study of what happens when social mores meet post war deprivation. Unable to find a virgin to be the town’s… Continue reading Albert Herring
Opera Scenes 2010
A fun and moving evening of scenes from operas and musical theatre. Selections include Stephen Sondheim’s dynamic sex-farce “A Weekend in the Country “ from A Little Night Music and R. Strauss’ thoughtful opera about young people growing up in Ariadne auf Naxos. Shakespeare is represented with selections from Gounod’s masterpiece Roméo et Juliette and… Continue reading Opera Scenes 2010
Das Liebesverbot
See the full photo gallery for Das Liebesverbot A fun, sexy, and colorful evening of Italian opera with Das Liebesverbot (“The Ban on Love”), Wagner’s second opera, presented by the talented performing artists of the USC Thornton Opera Program and the USC Thornton Chamber Orchestra. Pre-performance talk Ken Cazan and James Kincaid April 21, 2010… Continue reading Das Liebesverbot
The Rape of Lucretia
See the full photo gallery for The Rape of Lucretia What happens when innocence is sacrificed to a lust for power? What happens to ones faith when post-war atrocities are revealed? These are the questions Benjamin Britten poses in his 1946 masterpiece The Rape of Lucretia. Britten, a pacifist, returned to Great Britain from self-imposed… Continue reading The Rape of Lucretia
Don Giovanni
See the full photo gallery for Don Giovanni The Opera program presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni, performed by the singing-actors of the USC Thornton vocal and performing arts program and instrumentalists of the Thornton Chamber Orchestra. Mozart’s masterpiece tells the story of Don Giovanni, an aging nobleman, driven by an uncontrollable sexual appetite. A rapist and… Continue reading Don Giovanni
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
See the full photo gallery for I Capuleti e i Montecchi The USC Opera presents Bellini’s taut bel canto masterpiece I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s timeless Romeo and Juliet, Juliet desperately tries to keep the peace and her sanity while Romeo battles his personal demons and Juliet’s father, the bitter Capellio.… Continue reading I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Summer and Smoke
See the full photo gallery for Summer and Smoke The USC Thornton Opera Program and the USC Thornton Chamber Orchestra present Hoiby’s work as part of a season of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances. Summer and Smoke is a sensitive yet compelling operatic study of Alma Winemiller, a woman obsessed with the “boy next door,”… Continue reading Summer and Smoke
Powder Her Face
See the full photo gallery for Powder Her Face Before there was Diana, before there was Fergie, there was Margaret, Duchess of Argyll! A sexy, salacious, scintillating character study in two acts, Powder Her Face hypothetically explores what happened in the life of the Duchess of Argyll behind the closed doors of London ’s exclusive… Continue reading Powder Her Face