West Bank Arts Quarter







University Opera Theatre presents Janacek's Jenufa

University of Minnesota Opera Theatre presents Leos Janacek's Jenufa

Directed by David Walsh; conducted by Mark Russell Smith Thursday, April 23 through Sunday, April 26, 2009

An intensely moving and powerful social drama that depicts the tragedy of a young woman’s “sin” in an intolerant, unforgiving society and her subsequent triumph through compassion, love and newfound understanding.

Music by Czech composer Leos Janácek and libretto by Gabriela Preissova, performed in English.
Ted Mann Concert Hall, University of Minnesota West Bank
Tickets: $20 general admission; $10 for U of M students; group rates. Two for one tickets for University students, faculty, and staff. Call 612/624-2345 or click below.

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A scene from the University Opera Theatre's fall 2007
production of Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica

Experience opera with no bounds! University of Minnesota Opera Theatre will always surprise and captivate you with its fresh and unique approaches to conventional opera. Witness the majesty and the humanity of opera—an art form where beautiful music and energetic theatricality combine to create an imaginative, emotional and tantalizing experience.  Performing in the acoustically superior Ted Mann Concert Hall, UM Opera Theatre is proud to present some of the world's greatest operatic masterpieces, interpreted by the talented voice students in the University’s School of Music. Admission is by audition only.

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