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Brush Up Your Shakespeare With Music

The College of Charleston Opera Program in the College’s School of the Arts will present “Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” a fast-paced performance featuring works and popular shows that use Shakespearean texts, such as Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” or are take-offs of his plays, such as Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” The show will [...]
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College of Charleston Opera Presents an Evening of Soap Opera

The College of Charleston Opera Program in the School of the Arts will present two, comedic performances. The one-act operas, “A Game of Chance” and “Gallantry,” combine outlandish antics with the musical integrity of American composers Seymour Barab and Douglas Moore, respectively. Performances will take place from Saturday, Feb. 25 through Monday, Feb. 27 in [...]
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An Evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein Favorites

College of Charleston Opera to Present ‘An Enchanted Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein’ This one-night only production takes place on Friday, October 21 at 8 p.m., in the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip Street. Many of your favorite scenes and songs will be featured from each of the [...]
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CofC Opera Presents “The Mikado”

The College of Charleston Opera will entertain audiences of all ages with the outlandish, musical comedy, “The Mikado,” by Gilbert and Sullivan. The performance will open Friday, April 8 and run through Monday, April 11. [more info] The plot revolves around a series of relationships and odd laws that govern these relationships. Nanki-Poo, son of [...]
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CofC Opera presents Gianni Schicchi

Who gets your fortune when you’re on your deathbed? The College of Charleston Opera will conclude its 2009-2010 season with Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Gianni Schicchi, March 26-29. The one-act opera is Puccini’s lone venture into comedy. The fast moving plot opens with the death of the wealthy Buoso Donati.  His relatives greedily search for his [...]
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