Name: La Cenerentola
Start: 2022-11-18T19:30:00
Location: Centennial Concert Hall

Deanna Finnman

Sheldon Johnson

Manitoba Opera

It is the late 1880s in the Deep South. A people are divided against themselves. A group of upwardly mobile Freedmen are now running a plantation near Texarkana. They are striving to become an essential part of an emerging new America.

In the surrounding forest, a group of Maroons are rebuilding a nearly lost connection to their African ancestry. They do not value a country that has so recently seen them as nothing but property. Their coexistence is fragile but functional, until it is shattered by an act of violence. Into this conflict comes a young woman who discovers she has roots in both communities. At this crucial moment in history her choices will determine the future.

Treemonisha

Centennial Concert Hall

This haunting drama in the high hills of the Nagasaki harbour tells the story of Cio-Cio-San, a beautiful and innocent Japanese geisha who falls in love with Pinkerton, a dashing U.S. Navy lieutenant. Her love for Pinkerton transcends culture and family, and they marry. But some vows aren’t forever. Pinkerton soon leaves Japan and Butterfly unwaveringly waits three long years for his return. When his ship comes in her dreams for the future meet his – with tragic and heartbreaking results.

Madama Butterfly

In this variation of the beloved fairy tale Cinderella, La Cenerentola tells the story of a young woman who is forced to act as a servant to her pompous and mean social-climbing stepfather and ungrateful stepsisters.