Opera Theater: The Nightingale & The Child and the Spells

Wednesday, November 7 – Friday, November 9

7:30pm | Kulas Hall

Saturday, November 10

3pm | Kulas Hall

CIM Opera Theater

Dean Southern, director

Harry Davidson, conductor

Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra

STRAVINSKY   Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)

RAVEL   L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Child and the Spells)

Two charming tales of fantasy come to life in these early 20th-century one-act operas in which the human and non-human worlds meet in magical ways. The Nightingale is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about an emperor whose love for a real nightingale’s song is challenged by the tinkling of a mechanical bird he receives as a gift. In The Child and the Spells, a misbehaving young boy learns a valuable lesson from the animals, objects and even plants he has harmed.

All productions include projected English text.

Tickets: $20 adults

$15 seniors and groups of 10+

$10 students

216.795.3211 or cim.edu

Funded in part by a grant from the John P. Murphy Foundation.

The Friday, November 9 performance is sponsored by Tucker Ellis LLP.