‘Opera Scenes’ more than music

Scene and heard
‘Opera Scenes’ more than music

BY JESSICA STARK
Rice News Staff

People don’t often get the chance to enjoy more than one opera in an evening, but Rice’s Shepherd School of Music is making that opportunity available to students and the community with weekend performances.

RICHARD BADO

At 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2 and 2 p.m. Feb. 3,, the school will present “Opera Scenes” in Alice Pratt Brown Hall’s Wortham Opera House.

Juniors, seniors and graduate students enrolled in the opera workshop class will perform pieces including Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande,” Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus,” Bizet’s “Carmen,” Bernstein’s “Candide,” Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann,” Floyd’s “Of Mice and Men,” Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory,” and Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro,” “Don Giovanni” and “Die Zauberfl