“Let us return to Cobb in a safe way,” said Zvulun. Instead, more modest productions are planned. Though Americans are getting vaccinated in great numbers, the opera company will refrain from putting hundreds of people onstage in oversize productions. The other mainstage productions will include Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” In the meantime, for the new season, the Southeastern debut of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” has been promoted from the Discovery Series smaller stage to the main stage. Where the tent will be pitched is also unresolved, but, said Zvulun, it’s flexible and easier to store than opera scenery. There will be two Discovery Series productions, but neither has been announced yet. In fact, the new season will begin in the tent in September. It will be among the possible sites for the opera’s Discovery Series presentations, which are usually contemporary operas planned for smaller venues. Now the opera will be back where it belongs. One day earlier this month Zvulun walked out on stage under the Big Tent, pitched in the parking lot of the Cobb center, before a performance of “The Threepenny Opera” and asked the audience a rhetorical question: “How often have you seen a sold-out audience, at an opera, being performed under a tent, in a parking lot, on a Wednesday?”Īnswer: We saw it often this past year, and not just on Wednesdays.
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