Friday Night at the Opera
Recent Shows
Dec 23 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/23/11 - La Boheme, Amahl & the Night Visitors, Potpourri
La bohème is an opera in four acts, by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger
Dec 16 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/16/11 - Humperdink: Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel".
Dec 09 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/9/11- Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Dec 02 Friday Night at the Opera - 12/2/11 - Ponchielli: La Gioconda
La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, tyran de Padoue, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835.
Nov 25 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/25/11 - Operatic Triple Bill
Sean Bianco presents a special operatic triple bill. Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Puccini's Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
Nov 18 Friday Night at the Opera - 11/18/11 - Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.