Mill City Summer Opera Announces 6th Season
Friday, February 17, 2017 at 6:31AM
Mill City Summer Opera’s Maria de Buenos Aires Infuses Tango Into An Entirely New Opera Experience
National cast includes renowned Catalina Cuervo as Maria
For its sixth season, the Mill City Summer Opera (MCSO) will perform an Argentinian opera, María de Buenos Aires, under the direction of returning MCSO artistic director David Lefkowich.
María de Buenos Aires, set in the 20th century in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will run July 14 (opening night), 16, 18, 19 and 20. “In Mill City Summer Opera fashion, the audience should be prepared to be delighted,” said Lefkowich. “Our goal is to creatively push and expand the definition of what opera can be so our audience will never experience the same thing twice.”
MCSO’s version of Maria de Buenos Aires, composed by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla with libretto by Horracio Ferrer, merges the elements of dance, vocals, narration and instruments. Maria will be performed by the soprano Catalina Cuervo, named as one of the most successful Colombian Sopranos in the opera world by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. Miss Cuervo is considered the pre-eminent performer of the role of Maria and has performed the role with the opera companies of Atlanta, Cincinnati and Syracuse.
In light of the Mill City Museum's Ruins Courtyard’s extensive renovation throughout the Summer of 2017, MCSO is taking the opera across the Stone Arch Bridge for our sixth season. The shift in venue to the Pillsbury Machine Shop is temporary as restoration work continues in the Ruins Courtyard.
