IOPERA presents Menotti's "The Old Maid and the Thief

Approximate Running Times: Doors - 45 minutes prior to start IOpera, in collaboration with Melbourne Opera, presents Gian Carlo Menotti's wittily satirical and observationally sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire. Originally written for radio, 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 and accompanied by a chamber orchestra in the intimate surrounds of the Athenaeum Two Theatre

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