IOpera: A Season of Opera in English –

Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire!

Originally written for radio in 1939, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made Menotti arguably the most successful composer of opera in English of the past century.

A fast-paced opera buffa, it cleverly exposes the secret desires of two residents of a small town whose world is unexpectedly turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Their once rock-solid concern for social propriety quickly falls away in the presence of this object of desire. But who exactly is he?

Delivered by a cast of rising operatic talent.

Miss Todd: Saskia Mascitti
Laetitia: Teresa Ingrilli
Bob: Nick Beecher
Miss Pinkerton: Lisette Bolton
Narrator: Daniel Felton

Stage Director: Lisette Bolton
Conductor: Peter Tregear (18 September) and Christopher Hillier (20 September)
Stage Manager: Maria Woolford

Content Warnings: This opera includes loud and sudden noises, partial nudity as well as light sexual references.

Thursday, 18 September 7.30pm
Saturday, 20 September 1.30pm

Athenaeum 2

TICKETS: $69 – $29