UM School of Music: Voice/Opera Comedy Cabaret December 9, 2006

Members of the voice faculty and Maryland Opera Studio take a walk on the comic side with this collection of pieces for the campus-wide comedy festival on Saturday, December 9 and Sunday, December 10.

In "The Italian Lesson" a suburban housewife, soprano Linda Mabbs, tries to learn Italian through Dante's Inferno, courtesy of composer Lee Hoiby. Then mezzo-soprano Delores Ziegler is Julia Child wishing you Bon Appétit, prepared by Lee Hoiby. At the Statue of Venus finds an attractive woman, soprano Carmen Balthrop, waiting in a museum for a man she has never met. Finally, soprano Stacey Mastrian and bass-baritone François Loup argue over the choice of coffee or a husband in Bach's Coffee Cantata.

Tickets are $25, and $7 for students with student ID.

Official Website: http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu