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DESCRIPTION:Please join the School of Music for the presentation of Offenba
 ch: The Island of Tulipatan and Dan Shore: The Beautiful Bridegroom by the
  TCU Opera Studio.\n\nAdmission $10/$5 with non-TCU student ID/free with T
 CU ID\n\nView and Download Event Program\n\nThis event will not be livestr
 eamed\n\nThe Island of Tulipatan\n\nOpera in English w/subtitles\n\nMusic 
 by Jacques Offenbach\n\nNew English Dialogue by Jack Helbig\n\nNew English
  Lyrics by Gregg Opelka\n\nDirected by David Gately\n\nMusical Direction b
 y Stephen Carey\n\nEdited by Tyson Deaton\n\nSubtitles by Dr. Corey Trahan
 \n\nA madcap adventure on the Island of Tulipatan which is situated about 
 15\,000 miles from Texas and takes place about 473 years before the invent
 ion of the spittoon. The piece pokes fun at gender norms and what is accep
 table behavior by the two sexes. It tells the unlikely tale of a romance b
 etween the young maiden\, Hermosa and the handsome Prince Alexis.\n\nIt se
 ems that Hermosa\, born as a boy\, was raised as a girl by his very eccent
 ric parents Romboidal and Theodorine. They did so to avoid sending a son a
 way to war sometime in the future. And so Hermosa indeed thinks himself a 
 girl and yet doesn’t seem to take to “girlish” things and can’t un
 derstand why.\n\nMeanwhile\, “Prince” Alexis was actually born a girl\
 , but is raised as a boy because her mother just couldn’t bring herself 
 to tell her husband Duke Cacatois XXII that she had produced a third daugh
 ter for her husband. The Duke\, oblivious to the fact that Alexis was born
  a girl\, raises her/him to be a boy and just can’t understand why she/h
 e is so taken with “girlish” things.\n\nComplications and hilarity ens
 ue as each of the young lovers discover that they have been raised as the 
 “wrong” sex. The piece plays with gender expectations\, and while the 
 happy ending is what might be expected\, it has to be considered ahead of 
 its time for a piece that was originally written in 1868. \n\nThe Beautifu
 l Bridegroom\n\nOpera in English w/Subtitles\n\nMusic and Libretto by Dan 
 Shore\n\nDirected by David Gately\n\nMusical Direction by Stephen Carey\n\
 nEdited by Tyson Deaton\n\nSubtitles by Dr. Corey Trahan\n\nA hilarious ro
 mp! A unique one act opera in that composer Dan Shore scored it for six so
 pranos! A perfect piece for the Opera Studio at TCU where this year we hav
 e a preponderance of incredibly talented Sopranos!\n\nSynopsis\n\nThe wido
 wed Terentia (Jeannie Miller)\, after a visit to the city to find a husban
 d for her daughter Laruentia (Janell Stallard)\, decides that she herself 
 would like to marry – not her wealthy neighbor Jeroniumus\, who has made
  repeated offers\, but rather a young man in his twenties! As she would li
 ke to keep this a secret from her two daughters Laurentia and Leonora (Oli
 via Flores)\, she charges her indignant maid\, Pernille (Kathryn Piña)\, 
 to keep quiet.\n\nLeonora is trying to learn how to dance\, which she hope
 s she will be able to do soon at a wedding for her older sister Laurentia.
  Laurentia herself is uninterested in getting married\, which confuses the
  amorous Leonora. They spot an agitated Pernille\, who lets slip that she 
 is on her way to see Madam Kirsten (Marcie Duplantis) the local matchmaker
 . The two girls believe that she will be bringing a husband for Laurentia.
 \n\nMadam Kirsten muses on her unusual assignment\, and the fact that Pern
 ille has asked her to help expose Terentia’s folly. The Matchmaker meets
  with Terentia and encourages her to accept her old neighbor Jeronimus as 
 a husband\, but Terentia prefers the kind of man she has seen in the city:
  young and beautiful. Madam Kirsten suggests the captain Frands von Frauen
 liebe (Maggie Williams) who is\, in reality\, Madame Kirsten’s young nie
 ce and who could pass for a beautiful young man! Madame Kirsten has hatche
 d a plot!\n\nPernille\, Laurentia\, and Leonora prepare frantically for th
 e coming visitor\, unsure of how best to proceed. Kirsten enters and prese
 nts Captain von Frauenliebe\, who captivates all of the ladies. To the hor
 ror of Laurentia and Leonora\, the marriage is arranged between Frauenlibe
  and Terentia.\n\nWhile Terentia exults over her coming wedding\, Pernille
  excoriates her for not having the captain marry Laurentia instead. Madam 
 Kirsten enters in tears: the handsome young man has mysteriously been tran
 sformed into a woman! Frauenliebe enters and bewails her fate. Terentia\, 
 humbled\, agrees to marry Jeronimus. Laurentia is still mysteriously attra
 cted to the female captain…. And perhaps it remains for Pernille to teac
 h Leonora how to dance!
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