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CCM Opera Series
April 6 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Event Name: CCM Opera Series
Organizer: CCMSched@ucmail.uc.edu
Event Locator: 2023-ACBCNM
8 p.m. Thursday, April 4
8 p.m. Friday, April 5
2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, April 6
Opera Series
RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER
Composed by Daniel Catán
Libretto by Juan Tovar based on the play by Octavio Paz and the 1844 short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Haruna Gloria Kamo, student director
Robin Guarino, faculty advisor
TBA, conductor
A young woman, raised among her botanist-father's poisonous plants, has developed a curious and tragic condition that causes her touch to be poisonous to all other living creatures. When a young student falls in love with her, she becomes caught between her romantic dreams and that which has made love impossible for her. Upon its premiere in San Diego (1994), Rappaccini's Daughter became the first work by a Mexican composer to be produced by a major opera house in the US. Catán’s lush score was presented in a new orchestration when CCM and Cincinnati Opera presented the work as part of the first Opera Fusion: New Works project in 2008.
Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Tickets: $25 adult, $15 student, $15 UC faculty/staff, $10 UC student, $5 CCM student; group discounts available. Buy tickets online
