Love on Hold: The Telephone and At the Statue of Venus
A Double Bill
, September 19, 2026 7:30PMItem details
Date
September 19, 2026 7:30PM
Location
Baden Hall at the Opera Center
Name
Love on Hold: The Telephone and At the Statue of Venus
A Double Bill
Description
The Telephone
By Gian Carlo Menotti
"Blessed invention, extend your forgiveness!"
In Menotti's delightfully clever chamber opera, Ben discovers that the only way to propose to his phone-obsessed girlfriend Lucy is to... well... phone it in.
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At the Statue of Venus
By Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally
"Together we'll know beauty and drink of it deeply."
As she awaits her blind date at the feet of a statue of the Goddess of Love, a beautiful and successful modern woman endures a familiar cocktail of modern anxieties... until she recalls the beautiful gifts that love can bring.
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Both operas are fully staged and costumed, performed in English with piano.