Production
On Site Opera [View Company]
The Secret Gardener

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Production
Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College [View Company]
Brooklyn, Baby
COMPOSER: Multiple Composers
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Featuring excerpts from works by Brooklyn’s finest including Mel Brooks, John Corigliano, George & Ira Gershwin, John Musto, and Harry Warren.

A “show within a show”: John Musto’s characters from his opera Later the Same Evening go to see a Broadway show and get more than they bargained for!

Production
Hunter Opera Theater [View Company]
Fireworks and Lady Bird

SYNOPSIS/DESCRIPTION:
The Hunter Opera Theater presents the NYC premieres of Fireworks by Kitty Brazelton and Lady Bird by Henry Mollicone.

FIREWORKS
Composed by Kitty Brazelton
Libretto by Billy Aronson
This one act opera is a 4th of July comedy and social commentary. It is a hilarious opera/musical about a curious Alien who travels to Earth to investigate why we shoot colored lights into the sky every year on the 4th of July.

LADYBIRD: First Lady of the Land
Composed by Henry Mollicone
Libretto by Sheldon Harnick
This is a one-act opera based upon events in the life of first lady Lady Bird Johnson, the wife or Lyndon Baines Johnson. Due to the passing of the civil rights bill, President Johnson was at risk of not being elected to continue his presidency. His wife Lady Bird courageously campaigned for him across the Southern states on a special train tour, at times putting her own life in danger