LSL Summer Festival 2015: Summer Operas

Lone Star Lyric presents the LSL Summer Festival 2015.

LSL’s 2015 Festival Season includes two weekends of bikini-sized musical delights.

We open with our popular cocktail series in a Summer Cabaret then get to the meat of it with a comic opera double-bill of Donizetti’s hilarious Rita and Wolf-Ferrari’s smokey Suzanne’s Secret plus a sneak peek at Michael Remson’s latest chamber opera, Three Skeleton Key, premiering June 2016.

Everything is in English so you won’t miss a joke!

SUMMER OPERAS
June 26 – 28, 2015 (Fri/Sat-8pm, Sun-6pm)
Cullen Hall, University of St. Thomas 4001 Mt. Vernon, Houston, TX 77006

S E C R E T S … Where there’s smoke… there’s a woman.
LSL presents a comic opera double-bill (sung in English) with lots of secrets to spill plus a sneak peek at Michael Remson’s latest chamber opera, Three Skeleton Key.

THREE SKELETON KEY by Michael Remson
The prologue aria “Picture This Place” in Remson’s chilling, Three Skeleton Key from the 1947-1954 high-adventure radio drama series, Escape, which tells the tale of three men trapped in an isolated lighthouse by thousands of rats!

RITA  by Gaetano Donizetti
Happily in control of her second husband, Joe, Rita’s blissful life is turned upside down when husband number one returns from the grave.  “I thought he was dead?  I thought she was dead?”

SUZANNE’S SECRET  by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Gil’s jealousies run-a-muck when he arrives home to find cigarette smoke in the air… and he doesn’t smoke! Naturally he suspects that his new young bride Suzanne is having an affair. He tries to sniff out the adulterer and Suzanne reveals her little secret.

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SUMMER CABARET  Please see additional ArtsHound listing:
June 19 – 21, 2015 (Fri/Sat-8pm, Sun-6pm)
Caviart Gallery 2337 Bissonnet, Houston TX 77005 (Morningside/Greenbriar)
Our Summer Cabaret is the perfect indoor picnic with spicy favorites like ‘Summer Samba’ and Arlen’s ‘Summer Wind’ then cool off ‘In the Good Old Summertime’ and ‘In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening’ and more.

Relax with a cocktail and live performances of music from the Great American Songbook, Vaudeville to Tin Pan Alley, jazz standards and cabaret classics. Backed by a jazz band, this New York style show will save you the trip.