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Celebrate the spooky season and opera for the American airwaves in this double bill production featuring Menotti’s The Old Maid & The Thief and The Medium. Our studio actors have a third story to tell as we see their private lives on full display in this fully staged production. Sung in English with English & Spanish supertitles.

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The Menotti Radio Hour

OC Music & Dance

Based on a novel by Julien Green, Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s If I Were You is a Faustian story that explores themes of love, power and gender roles in a modern setting. In the wake of a near-fatal car accident, the aimless young writer Fabian begins to reassess his life. After an unexpected encounter with his college crush, Fabian makes a deal with an enigmatic, shape-shifting demon, Brittomara, who gives him the power to move his soul from person to person for as long as he likes. Everything comes with a price, however: if he ever returns to his own body, his soul will be Brittomara’s to collect. On his precarious journey to win the heart of his beloved, he leaves a trail of despair and hollow shells. In the end, will he choose to live forever as someone else or die for love as himself?

Conductor

J. Bradley Baker

Events

Upcoming events

18 - 26 Apr, 2026

Jake Heggie's If I Were You: Maryland Opera Studio · University of Maryland School of Music

Past events

25 - 27 Oct, 2024

The Menotti Radio Hour · Lyric Opera of Orange County

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