Schedule of Events:

The Good Person of Szechwan
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by John Willett

Friday, October 9, 8:00pm
Saturday, October 10, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 11, 7:00pm
Friday, October 16, 8:00pm
Saturday, October 17, 2:00pm
Thursday, October 22, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 24, 2:00pm

Three Gods come to Earth in search of a 'good' person. They discover the good-hearted but penniless prostitute Shen Teh, who finds that being good comes with a price. When the townspeople begin taking advantage of Shen Teh's goodness, she is forced to develop an alter ego, Shui Ta, to deal ruthlessly with the business of living in an evil world.

• Available as part of the Boston University School of Theatre 2009-2010 subscription package. Approximate running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Antigone
An opera in one act with music and libretto by Marjorie Merryman

Saturday, October 17, 6:30pm
Sunday, October 18, 7:00pm
Friday, October 23, 8:00pm
Sunday, October 25, 7:00pm

In this one-act opera based on Sophocles' play and featuring an original libretto by composer and former BU faculty member Marjorie Merryman, Antigone faces the deaths of her two brothers, who have killed each other in battle. This production will also be featured in this spring's InCite Arts Festival in New York City. Approximate running time: 60 minutes.

Lucrezia
An opera in one act with music by William Bolcom and libretto by Mark Campbell

Saturday, October 24, 6:30pm
Sunday, October 25, 2:00pm
Friday, October 30, 8:00pm
Saturday, October 31, 6:30pm

Commissioned and written for the New York Festival of Song in 2007, this one-act comedic opera is a "riff on Machiavelli's La Mandragola, and on the zarzuela style," in which a young man will resort to any means as he desperately seeks the love of a seemingly virtuous young married woman.

Recital Meets Theatre

Sunday, November 1, 2:00PM

For the third year, Opera Institute singers take an exciting, fresh look at traditional song literature, lifting songs out of the formal recital format and bringing them onto the stage. Performed by second year Opera Institute singers.

No reservations or tickets needed for this free event. Approximate running time: 2 hours.