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Show MUSIC ARTS FINAL NUMBER New York Dinner Opera Company To Appear Here 'COMIC OPERA. "66" by Jacques Offenbach is played I here by the three principals of the New York Dinner Opera Company which will appear in Cedar City Thursday, Thurs-day, April 20. Left is Claire Simmons, center is Paul Dixon and right is Norman Riggins. It is the final number num-ber of the season for Music Arts patrons. The internationally acclaimed After Dinner Opera Company of New York City will perform in Cedar City Saturday, April 22 at 8:15 at the College of Southern Utah auditorium. It Is the final number of the season for the Cedar City Music Arts Association, according to Blaine Johnson, secretary. Currently engaged on its an-; an-; nual coast-to-coast North Am-rican Am-rican Tour, the famous globe-j trotting company will present a program of short music operas in English. ! "6" is on of the short comic operas to be presented. Jacques Offenbach originally wrote "fifi" for his tiny "Off the Champ Elysees" Theatre in Paris, but the opera's champagne music and bubbly libretto designed It for Broadway. The opera pokes fun at Austrian peasants, lotteries lotter-ies and the "well-made" plays of "La vie Parisienne" period. . t Richard Staurt Flusser, founder found-er and producer of the After Dinner Din-ner Opera Company as well as its stage Wirector, has been highly high-ly praised by both European and American critics for his "unique "uni-que and lively operatic staging In which singers move with the beauty of dancers and the reality real-ity of actors. 1 ' George Walston is the Music Director. Claire Simmons, soprano; so-prano; Taul Dixon, tenor and Norman Riggins, bass-baritone, will perform the leading roles In each of the presentations. Other presentations. In addl-tion addl-tion to "W, will be "April 22nd," "Sweet Betsy from Pike" and , "Apollo and Persephone." |