There are two free events coming up for opera lovers at Vanderbilt.

Join the Vanderbilt Opera Theater and the Vanderbilt University Orchestra for Kurt Weill’s Street Scene this weekend, Nov. 14-16 at Blair. Performances will be held at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday night and at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Ingram Hall. Join Professor Joyce Calico in the Blair Choral Hall on Friday evening at 7:30 for a pre-show discussion. This event is free and open to the public.

Then on Thursday, Nov. 20, the first 300 people to register will get a free boxed lunch for an InsideOut of the Lunch Box with the Nashville Opera. Join John Hoomes, artistic director of the Nashville Opera; Joy Calico, associate professor of Musicology and cast members from the opera, The Student Prince. Short pieces from the opera will be performed and the audience and experts will discuss it. Free box lunches will be provided for the first 300 people to respond.

For more information about Vanderbilt Opera Theater’s Street Scene, contact: Cindy Steine, 322-7651 or cindy.steine@vanderbilt.edu.

For more information about The Student Prince, call 322-8585 or e-mail tpac@vanderbilt.edu.

Complimentary luncheon series sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

from myVU