Gian Carlo Menotti’s wittily satirical and sharp comedy of suburban manners and forbidden desire!

Originally written for radio in 1939, this masterful one-act work has since gone on to be one of the most performed of twentieth century operas, full of the kinds of dramatic and musical bravura that made Menotti arguably the most successful composer of opera in English of the past century.

A fast-paced opera buffa, it cleverly exposes the secret desires of two residents of a small town whose world is unexpectedly turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Their once rock-solid concern for social propriety quickly falls away in the presence of this object of desire. But who exactly is he?

Delivered by a cast of rising operatic talent, including Saskia Mascitti, Teresa Ingrilli, Nick Beecher and Lisette Bolton.