Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University

Michael is guest conductor for CCPA’s Graduate Opera production this spring, featuring a double-bill of Giacomo Puccini’s Suor Angelica together with Jonathan Dove’s Tobias and the Angel. Both performances are free admission and will take place at The Chicago Temple.

More information may be found at the link here.

Two free performances:
• Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, April 1 at 5:30 p.m.

Michael Pecak, conductor
Shannon McGinnis and Dana Brown, music directors
Rose Freeman, stage director

A double-bill of one-act operas, Love and Redemption pairs an early 20th-century work in the grand opera tradition with an imaginative and intimate "church opera" composed in 1999. Puccini's Suor Angelica tells the tragic story of a young nun, banished to the convent and forced to leave behind a child born out of wedlock. In Jonathan Dove's imaginative retelling of the Hebrew fable Tobias and the Angel, young Tobias is forced by family circumstances to leave home and confront the challenges of the wider world. The historic Chicago Temple provides a stunning backdrop for the depiction of these complex spiritual journeys, which ultimately illustrate the power of divine grace - and love - to bring about forgiveness and redemption.

Suor Angelica will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Tobias and the Angel will be sung in English.

Run time: 2 hours 10 minutes, with intermission