Name: South Pacific
Start: 2025-02-16T14:00:00
Location: Valentine Theatre

J. Ernest Green

Keith Phares

Nicholas Kottman

Mike Schwitter

Robbie Raso

Brady DelVecchio

Claire Leyden

Kamryn Loy

Sarah Rachel Bacani

Emily Cotten

Mia Snyder

Nico Perez de Tagle

Michael Vanderpool

Noah Smith

Christopher Stack

Ella Green

James M. Norman

Domonique Glover

Toledo Opera

South Pacific

Valentine Theatre

Just in time for Valentine’s Day and the 75th anniversary of its premiere, Toledo Opera presents South Pacific. Winner of 10 Tony Awards in 1950 including Best Musical and Best Original Score, South Pacific debuts to Toledo Opera audiences in a new production brought to life by conductor J. Ernest Green and stage director James M. Norman. Based on the anecdotes of a real-life U.S. Navy commander who was stationed on a island, South Pacific follows two intercultural love stories: Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with Emile, a French plantation owner on the island who has two children from his late Polynesian wife; at the same time, U.S. Lieutenant Cable falls for a beautiful island native named Liat. Both Americans find themselves struggling to reconcile their own cultural prejudices with their amorous feelings, all the while under the dark cloud of a war that is coming ever closer to their island paradise.

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