Opera UCI: Our Town - A Three-Act Opera

Music by Ned Rorem
Libretto by J.D. McClatchy
Based on the play by Thornton Wilder
Kristine Rothfuss Erbst, Stage Director
Darryl Taylor, Artistic Director
Stephen Tucker, Music Director

Opera UCI presents the southern California premiere of a classic American story. Based on the Thornton Wilder play, it is about life, love, and death in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, N.H., early in the 20th century. The opera Our Town features the music of one of America’s foremost composers, Ned Rorem, and a libretto by American poet J.D. McClatchy. The production will be joined by the UCI Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Stephen Tucker.