The University of North Texas Opera will open its spring season with Andre Previn's adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire in March.
Performances will start at 7:30 p.m. March 2-4 and 3 p.m. March 5 in the Lyric Theatre inside the Murchison Performing Arts Center, off Interstate 35E at North Teas Boulevard. Tickets cost $15 to $35. For tickets, call 940-369-7802 or visit the online box office at thempac.music.unt.edu.
The opera is based on the famous drama by Tennessee Williams, which centers on an aging Southern widow, Blanche duBois, as she loses her grip on her family's crumbling plantation, Belle Reve, and her sanity.
She arrives in a rough New Orleans apartment to seek refuge with her younger sister, Stella. But Stella's chauvinistic, violent husband, Stanley, isn't interested in Blanche's fantasies or lies. He's interested in getting the piece of Belle Reve his wife should inherit — if there's anything left to inherit at all.
The opera will be directed by Taylor Rachel Carnes and conducted by Stephanie Rhodes Russell.
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