A contemporary opera based on an American play
By Aaron Storms
Following a Central City Days party entailing a country fair and a mock wedding for opera patrons before opening night on Saturday evening, July 6, the “Our Town” premier was a fitting performance. This opera was performed in English, highlighting the small-town daily life and the drama associated with a boy and girl growing up as neighbors, learning to love each other, culminating in marriage, and the grief associated with the loss of a loved one. The setting was in Grover’s Corner, a small (fictional) New Hampshire town in 1901, but could easily have been from any small town in America.
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