Monday, June 27th / 7:30 PM / Uncommon Ground – Edgewater
Tuesday, June 28th / Noon / Harold Washington Library
Opera On Tap will continue its Operatic Book Club series with a setting of Edith Wharton’s short story Roman Fever, by American composer Robert Ward. The story is set in a terrace restaurant overlooking the Roman Forum where two widows and their daughters have met by chance. As their daughters talk of falling in love, the full story of the widows’ meeting in the same place twenty years earlier is revealed.
Featuring:
Emma Cox as Alida Slade
Marysa Abbas as Grace Ansley
Teaira Burge as Jenny Slade
Samantha Attaguile as Barbara Ansley
Ian McGuffin as Cameriere
Directed by: Heather Keith
Music Directed & Accompanied by: Jordan Crice
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Uncommon Ground – Edgewater:
Harold Washington Library – Cindy Pritzker Auditorium: