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Dead Man Walking
Shepard and Ruth K. Broad Center for the Performing Arts
- Thursday, July 27 | 7:30 p.m. (includes Q&A after show with composer and cast)
- Saturday, July 29 | 7:30 p.m.
In this South Florida premiere based on the book and film of the same name, acclaimed composer Jake Heggie takes on a true story that helped frame the modern debate on the death penalty in America. When a Catholic nun in New Orleans agrees to become pen pals with a death-row inmate convicted of murder, her perspectives on life, death, forgiveness, and capital punishment are forever altered. With a libretto by the Tony Award-winning playwright Terrance McNally (Masterclass, Ragtime), Dead Man Walking brings one of the most powerful contemporary American operas—and one of opera’s most important contemporary composers—to South Florida.
The Marriage of Figaro
Shepard and Ruth K. Broad Center for the Performing Arts
- Friday, July 28 | 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, July 30 | 2 p.m.
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The music and characters of Mozart’s beloved Marriage of Figaro have captured the hearts of opera lovers since Figaro’s premiere in 1786. Servants Figaro and his promised Susanna prepare for their wedding, only to find that his employer, Count Almaviva, has impure intentions. Fearing that the Count wants to seduce Susanna, Figaro schemes to outsmart him. Meanwhile, the lovely Countess, to whom Susanna is ever faithful, begins to suspect the same and devises her own trap to catch the Count in his mischief. The classes battle in a light-hearted comedy sung in Italian and featuring some of Mozart’s most beautiful melodies.
Roman Fever/An Embarrassing Position
Weber Grand Hall
- Saturday, July 29 | 3 p.m.
- Sunday, July 30 | 6 p.m.
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In Robert Ward’s Roman Fever, old rivalries resurface when two wealthy, middle-aged widows vacation in Rome with their daughters. This one-act opera is based on a short story by Edith Wharton.
In Dan Shore’s comic opera “An Embarrassing Position,” a political candidate tries to avoid a potential scandal with the lovely and naive daughter of a family friend.