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from the issue of April 20, 2006
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Program plans return trip to Ireland
In September 2007, the UNL School of Music Opera program will take a production of Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella" to Ireland for the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera. It will be the second trip to Ireland for the opera program in five years.
James and Rhonda Seacrest, of Lincoln, have made a gift commitment to the University of Nebraska Foundation to sponsor the trip.
The Seacrests also sponsored the opera program's 2002 trip to Ireland, and have made a donation to the NU Foundation to support a chamber orchestra to play for opera performances on an off campus.
"The Seacrest gifts to support the chamber/opera orchestra initiative and the Ireland tour of 'The Most Happy Fella' provide critical momentum vital to the forward progress of the UNL School of Music," said John W. Richmond, director of the School of Music. "Our opera program continues to garner national and international attention because of its emerging quality and competitiveness. These gifts will only enhance that progress and accelerate our advancement in two programs of strategic importance: opera and chamber music. We simply could not be more grateful."
"The Most Happy Fella" is the most operatic of all American musicals.
This love story involves Tony, a middle-aged owner of a vineyard, who proposes through the mail to a woman who does not know what he looks like, enclosing a photo of his young, handsome foreman. She is hurt and humiliated when she learns the truth, but, after suitably heart-wrenching obstacles are negotiated, a loving understanding blossoms between the two during Tony's long convalescence from a near-fatal accident.
Ariel Bybee, associate professor, will direct the production, which will be performed first in Lincoln in the spring of 2007.
In 2002, the UNL Opera program won four awards in competition in Waterford for its revival of "The Bohemian Girl," including the coveted Best Operetta award.
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ARTS HEADLINES FOR APRIL 20
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American Life in Poetry
April 21 runway show features student designs
Author signing April 24
Ceramics Guild pottery sale is April 28-29
Hurt book sale begins April 28
India exhibit opens at Lentz Center
ORGANIC STRUCTURE
Plains Song Review reading is April 20
Program plans return trip to Ireland
Scarlet and Cream spring show April 23
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