| Tom Littman Concert Manager 2237 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-4933 littman@rice.edu Kristi Blair Concert Office Assistant 2243 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-8000 klb2@rice.edu |
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| Unless otherwise noted, admission to all events is free and tickets are not required. Programs are subject to change without notice. For information, call the Shepherd School Concert Office at 713-348-8000. |
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| SHEPHERD SCHOOL OPERA TO PERFORM 'STREET SCENE' Office of News and Media Relations Jennifer Evans Media Relations Specialist Email: jevans@rice.edu  The Shepherd School of Music will delight opera and musical lovers alike with a four-show production of Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene,” an American opera about working-class life in New York City performed by the Shepherd School Opera and the Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra. Written in 1947 and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice, “Street Scene” follows the lives of four characters in a tenement house during one evening and the next afternoon. Described as “a story of love and passion and greed and death,” “Street Scene” is a fusion of traditional European opera and Broadway musical theater and features a mix of jazz, blues, spiritual and Rogers and Hammerstein. Weill received the first Tony Award for Best Original Score for this work. Richard Bado, director of the Opera Studies Program, will conduct and Debra Dickinson, artist teacher of opera studies, will direct the opera, which is part of the Leon Wilson Clark Opera Series. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. March 22, 24, 26 and 27 in Wortham Opera Theatre, Alice Pratt Brown Hall. Tickets are $10 for general seating, $8 for students and senior citizens. For tickets, call 713-348-8000. |
