CURTAIN CALL: Vicious and entertaining

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CURTAIN CALL: Vicious and entertaining

POSTED: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Theater

✚ OBERTO

When opera buffs or Jeopardy contestants think of Verdi, later works like Aida or Rigoletto are usually the ones that spring to mind. But true Verdi connoisseurs (read: opera hipsters) will be thrilled that the Academy of Vocal Arts passed by those renowned masterpieces to open 2012 with the composer’s relatively unrefined Oberto. Soprano Michelle Johnson — recently named a grand prize-winner at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions — stars as scorned lover Leonora, who leaves her father’s home to confront the man who seduced and abandoned her. This being 13th-century Italy, her father Oberto soon follows, obsessed with defending her honor. The opera, Verdi’s first, is rarely performed — which should be reason enough to attend.

Thu., Jan. 26 and Fri., Jan. 27, 7:30 p.m., $25-60, Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org; and Tue., Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m., $25-60, Centennial Hall at the Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, 215-735-1685, avaopera.org.

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