2008-2009 Season
A Mid-Winter's Afternoon
Take a break from the cold and join us for some fun. Come to hear top-notch performances of opera, operetta and musical-theater favorites and enjoy complimentary refreshments while you peruse the wonderful silent auction items from such places as: Juxt Home and Baby, Body Works Yoga, All About Hair Salon, Almont Gallery, Great Harvest Bread, Le Cakery, Ten Chimneys, The Skylight, The Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Present Music and more!
Featured Performers: Nancy McIntyre, Kristin Schweke, Melissa Cardamone, Kerry Hart, Brianne Sura, Jill Anna Ponasik, Matthew Richardson, Stuart Mitchell and Steven Arvanites.
Featured Performers: Nancy McIntyre, Kristin Schweke, Melissa Cardamone, Kerry Hart, Brianne Sura, Jill Anna Ponasik, Matthew Richardson, Stuart Mitchell and Steven Arvanites.
EAT/Pizza Con Funghi
Milwaukee Opera Theatre concludes its 10th season with “EAT,” a scrumptious event including the world premiere of The Secret Life of Vegetables (possibly the first art-song exposing crisper drawer drama), Bon Appétit! a monodrama with text by Julia Child, Pasatieri’s Overweight, Overwrought Over You, the Ice Cream Sextet from Kurt Weill’s Street Scene and the one-act opera, La Pizza Con Funghi by Seymour Barab, in which a countess takes a lover, a maid attempts to keep a secret, a tenor sings high notes and a count begs for some mushroom pie. All sung in English.Featuring a cast of: Indra Brusubardis, Brianne Sura, Erin Sura, Piper Pack, Matthew Richardson, Scott Sardina, David Lange, and Doug Clemons