“Anything you can sing… I can singer higher/louder/better!” That’s the premise of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s comic opera The Impresario, in which a long-suffering theater director tries to juggle divas dueling for the same role. It’s a one-act opera, so this weekend’s performance in Duluth by LOON (Lyric Opera of the North) adds another one-act to the program, the world premiere of Circe on Superior Peter Hilliard. You may recall Circe from The Odyssey, in which she turns men into animals. It’s a comedy, of course.
Meanwhile, Minnesota Opera revisits the classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Charles Gounod’s romantic opera of William Shakespeare’s classic. It will be presented in four performances opening Saturday, parting with such sweet sorrow by Nov. 10.
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