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Duke Opera Workshop Performs Broadway Classics This Weekend

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The Duke Opera Workshop this weekend will turn left into musical theater with two days of "Broadway Goes to the Opera!"

Performances will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 23, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24, in Baldwin Auditorium. Admission is free.

Directed by Susan Dunn, the students in the workshop will perform scenes from Scenes from Candide & West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein); Street Scene (Kurt Weil); Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers); and Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim). David Heid will be on the piano.

The Duke Opera Workshop presents staged chamber operas and operatic scenes in Baldwin Auditorium. Founded by John Hanks in 1958, it is one of the only undergraduate opera programs currently offered among our peer institutions, giving Duke students the opportunity to learn more about stage craft and the art of operatic singing.

In addition to operas and opera scenes, Duke Opera Workshop also performs "classical Broadway" repertoire and has partnered with the Duke Jazz Ensemble to present successful Swing programs with costumes and staging. 

For more information, call 660-3333 or visit http://music.duke.edu/ensembles/opera-workshop