Apr 23, 2025

The Marriage of Figaro

Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00 pm
Friday, April 24 at 7:30 pm

OH, WHAT A DAY!

It’s the eve of Figaro and Susanna’s wedding, but nothing is going right. The Count’s wandering eye has landed on the bride-to-be. Cherubino, the page, is sweet on the Countess, and Marcellina, the governess, is chasing after Figaro.

Mozart’s great ensemble comedy features a colourful cast of characters and a whirlwind of tricks, disguises, and mistaken identities. Can the servants turn the tables on the masters in order to teach the Count a lesson and save the wedding? Will love triumph?

From the famous overture to the finale, this social commentary on class and love unfolds with brilliant music, memorable melodies, and heart-breaking tenderness as the characters ponder young love, lost love, and forgiveness.

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

MUSIC Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LIBRETTO Lorenzo da Ponte
(Based on Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’ comic play Le Mariage de Figaro)

Run Time: Approximately 3 Hours (Including One 20-Minute Intermission)

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Apr 23, 2025

Tosca

Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, November 26 at 7:00 pm
Friday, November 28 at 7:30 pm

Approximate Run Time: 2 hours & 45 minutes (including two 20-minute intermissions)

Supremely Operatic!

Heart-pounding drama, intense passion, and soaring melodies are a killer combination in this fateful day in the life of the diva Tosca.

In revolutionary Rome, the fiery, famous singer lives for art and love but finds herself in a life-and-death struggle when her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is caught trying to protect a freedom fighter. Scarpia, the corrupt chief of police will stop at nothing to satisfy his lust for her. In this game of deadly political intrigue will Tosca submit to Scarpia’s desires or see her lover die? Can Scarpia’s evil reach from beyond the grave?

This spell-binding classic features some of Puccini’s best: “Vissi d’arte,” the opera’s most famous aria in which Tosca sings that she’s always lived her life for art and love; Cavaradossi’s “Recondita armonia”; Scarpia’s “Te Deum,” sung with self-satisfied villainy and madness; and “E lucevan le stelle,” Cavaradossi’s farewell to Tosca.

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

MUSIC Giacomo Puccini
LIBRETTO Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
(Based on Victorien Sardou’s drama La Tosca)

Content Warning: This production contains smoke and haze, as well as adult content including depictions of attempted rape, physical violence, murder, suicide, gun shots, and the sounds of off-stage torture.

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