When your child shines, you glow. So you can understand why I'm proud of my talented daughter, Erica, who will be playing for the Victorian Lyric Opera Company's Gilbert & Sullivan Sing-Out this weekend.
Every five years, VLOC in Rockville, MD, holds this gigantic Gilbert & Sullivan event. All thirteen (13!) light operas will be presented over three days. All will be accompanied by piano except The Grand Duke, which will be performed with full orchestra. Die-hard G&S fans have waited five years for Rockville and are traveling to Maryland this weekend either to be spectators or peformers.
Here's the schedule:
Friday evening, Aug. 29 (7pm-11pm: Trial By Jury, Patience, The Mikado)
Saturday Morning, Aug. 30 (9am-12pm: The Sorcerer, Princess Ida, H.M.S. Pinafore)
Saturday Afternoon, Aug.30 (12pm-5pm: Utopia Ltd., Ruddigore)
Saturday Evening, Aug. 30 (7pm-11pm: The Grand Duke, The Pirates of Penzance)
Sunday Morning, Aug. 31 (9am-12pm: The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe, The Gondoliers).
Erica will be at the piano Friday night for Trial By Jury and The Mikado, and again Sunday morning for The Yeomen of the Guard.
Everything you always wanted to know about Gilbert, Sullivan, and their operas is on the archive site here.
Audience tickets are available through the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater box office at 240-314-8690. Tickets will be sold in blocks (Friday evening, Saturday Morning , Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Evening, and Sunday Morning) for $25 for Friday night, including an opening reception with light refreshments, and $20 for all other blocks.
For directions to the theater, click here.
410-530-2400
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