| In NEC's December double
bill of one-act operas, humiliation is dished out as payment for greed,
or for simply daring to think one has a gender.
Giacomo Puccini's Gianni
Schicchi
is a one-act comic opera originally produced as the third segment of Il
Trittico, and is based on an incident in 14th-century Florentine social
history as recorded in Dante’s Inferno. The wily title character
diverts a rich man’s large estate from his grasping relatives to the dowry
of his beloved but penniless daughter. Performed in Italian with supertitles.
Francis Poulenc's The
Breasts of Tiresias
is a surrealist opera, based on a text by Guillaume Apollinaire, that imagines
women and men exchanging gender roles to predictably ridiculous theatrical
effect. Performed in English with supertitles.
How many times have you
heard your opera-going friends say, “I heard them back when...” You too
can be the first to hear the stars of tomorrow in a fully staged opera,
brought to life by the up-and-coming young singers who study at New England
Conservatory. NEC singers have consistently gone on to win Metropolitan
Opera Regional Auditions and perform in opera houses around the world.
The December production is
conducted by NEC Director and Chair of Opera Studies John Greer and directed
by Marc Astafan of the NEC faculty.
Telecharge: 1-800/233-3123
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617/824-8000
Specific Needs:
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TERMS: Web discount
not now available. |
