HHC at the MAC: A Wedding
with a Pre-performance Talk by Halina Goldberg of the Jacobs School of Music

Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 * 6:30 p.m. Talk * 8 p.m. Performance * Musical Arts Center
SIGN-UP REQUIRED * Tickets: $10 * Refreshments Included

You are invited to . . . A Wedding, William Bolcom's contemporary comic opera about "an all-American train wreck of a wedding in which everything that can go wrong does." Based on the Robert Altman feature film of the same name, A Wedding has been described by Altman, who co-wrote the libretto and directed the 2004 premier at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as "less opera than musical comedy," an opera that "could easily play on Broadway." As one reviewer wrote, it "has an edge and a wit one does not normally associate with classical opera, but opera seems a perfect medium in which to bring Altman's characters to the stage."

Is it opera? Join Halina Goldberg of the Jacobs School of Music for a pre-performance talk about A Wedding and how it fits into the tradition of opera, and then enjoy the IU performance. "You are permitted and encouraged to laugh!" said composer Bolcom, who has won the Pulitzer Prize for music, three Grammys, and the National Medal of Arts and has written music in many forms, including symphonies, piano rags, cabaret songs, and concertos. Sign-ups for this program are already underway. See here for details.

Read the news release for A Wedding!

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