Name: Ames Guild: The DMMO Orchestra
Start: 2025-01-14T18:30:00
Location: Northcrest Community

Prepare to embark on an enchanting journey through the compelling realm of opera as Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) presents a captivating lineup of events for the 2024-2025 season. From the Apprentice Spotlight Concert that sets the stage for budding opera talent, to the deep dives into iconic operas like Wagner's 'The Flying Dutchman,' this season promises a rich tapestry of musical excellence and cultural enrichment. With engaging guild events, delightful culinary showcases, and stirring performances, there's something for every opera enthusiast to experience and cherish.

Unveiling the Future of Opera: A Journey through Des Moines Metro Opera's 2024-2025 Events

Des Moines Metro Opera

Returning to our stage for the first time in 17 years, Tosca features Puccini’s most memorable melodies and romantic orchestrations. The opera diva Floria Tosca steadfastly lives for art and love. However, when the corrupt Scarpia discovers Tosca’s lover, Cavaradossi, aided the escape of a political prisoner, her world comes down to one final, fatal question: how far will she go to protect the man she loves?

Tosca

Simpson College

Steinbeck’s timeless novella Of Mice and Men becomes a superbly crafted opera of great beauty and power. George and Lennie are two migrant ranch workers who dream of owning an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. But George cannot guard Lennie, a childlike giant of a man with a love for soft things, from the bullying of the ranch boss and his flirtatious yet unhappy young wife. Steinbeck’s timeless story—in the hands of the Dean of American Opera, Carlisle Floyd—becomes a superbly crafted opera of great beauty and power.

Of Mice and Men

When an enigmatic Shepherd from the East arrives at the Christian court of King Roger, his presence disrupts the court’s established values and view of the world. Do his teachings bring goodness and joy—or destruction and chaos? King Roger himself grapples with questions of self-knowledge, spirituality and his very identity as a monarch and a man.

King Roger

Join the Ames Chapter of the DMMO Guild for an evening with DMMO's Orchestra Personnel and Operations Manager, Mark Dorr! The program will be held in the Grand Room at Northcrest Community (2300 Northcrest Parkway, Ames) at 6:30pm on Tuesday, January 14. 

Ames Guild: The DMMO Orchestra

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