Bastien und Bastienne / Le 66

Two soprano shepherdesses, two tenors tempted by life in the city, two basses mediating the ensuing conflict. Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and Offenbach’s Le 66 are two one-act operettas which tell of characters pulled this way and that by the call of the pastoral and the metropolitan. At this crossroads, what else but hilarity can ensue? Both works are comic operas with dialogue, one with an elegant and refined score by opera’s favorite child prodigy, and the other with wall-to-wall toe-tappers by the uncontested master of French operetta.

Both operas will be performed in their original language, with English supertitles.

Bastien und Bastienne

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner

Bastienne - Melissa Perry

Bastien - Yong Hoon Lee

Colas - Victor Jaquez

Le 66

Music by Jacques Offenbach

Libretto by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin

Grittly - Angela Scorese

Frantz - Mark Martinez

Berthold - Colin Safley

Stage Director - Natan Zamansky

Music Director - Eric Peterson

More info: https://opnyc.org/