Buy Opera Tickets | Central City Opera http://www.centralcityopera.org/ <h2>Special Events and Fundraisers</h2> http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets We're more than just a "summer company", purchase tickets to the following events: Comedy Night (Benefit for Historic Georgetown, Inc.) - September 10, 2010 Event Information BUY TICKETS to 6 pm Louie Anderson <h2>Festival Extras and Events</h2> http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets Add more to your festival experience with extras featuring members of the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Artists Training Program. Festival Extras for the 2011 Festival have not been announced. [View all Festival Extra details] Opera Notes are free pre-performance lectures and do not require a ticket. <h2><i>Gianni Schicchi</i> by Giacomo Puccini<br>(Summer 2011)</h2> http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets Based on a story referred to in Dantes Divine Comedy, this comic one act opera follows the family of Buoso Donati, an extremely wealthy man who dies and leaves his fortune to the local monks. The family begs the cunning Gianni Schicchi to help them procure Donatis fortune, and hijinks ensue. Best known for the soprano aria, O mio babbino caro (Oh, my dear Papa), the opera is the... <h2><i>Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias)</i><br> by Francis Poulenc (Summer 2011)</h2> http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets This surrealist opra bouffe (comic opera) is set in the imaginary town of Zanzibar, near Monte Carlo. It follows the story of Thrse, who tires of her life as a submissive woman and becomes the male Tirsias when her breasts turn in to balloons and float away. She then tries to conquer the world as General Tiresisas; meanwhile her husband finds a way to bear children without women.... <h2><i>Seven Deadly Sins</i> by Kurt Weill<br>(Summer 2011)</h2> http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets http://www.centralcityopera.org/tickets This satirical ballet chante, or sung ballet, in seven scenes was the last collaboration between Weill and Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the libretto. It follows the story of Anna and her split personalities, the singer (Anna I), and a dancer (Anna II). Anna travels to seven cities, running into a sin in each city, as she searches for money to build a home for her family. ...