JUST DO IT: Center City Opera Theater presents The Shops

Photo | Shirana Shahbazi Composers Gioulami and Rushton Did you know that The Market & Shops at Comcast Center (aka the basement of the new USB-drive-looking skyscraper) is also an opera venue? Neither did I! But that's where Center City Opera Theater is producing The Shops, a timely, absurdist comedy targeting materialism and consumer culture. Co-commissioned in 2006 by the English Opera Group and Austrian performing-arts festival Bregenzer Festspiele, this oper-atire (has that portmanteau been coined yet?) — penned by husband-and-wife team Edward Rushton and Dagny Gioulami — will be performed in the area which is normally restaurant and shopping space. WHYY arts and culture reporter/sometimes CP scribe Peter Crimmins reported on the unusual venue earlier this week; read his Newsworks piece here, or preview selections from the opera at the composers' website. The Shops, Fri.-Sat., Dec. 17-18, 8:30 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 19, 5 p.m.; $29-$39, The Market & Shops at Comcast Center, 1701 JFK Blvd., operatheater.org.

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JUST DO IT: Center City Opera Theater presents The Shops

POSTED: Friday, December 17, 2010, 4:26 PM

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Photo | Shirana Shahbazi

Composers Gioulami and Rushton

Did you know that The Market & Shops at Comcast Center (aka the basement of the new USB-drive-looking skyscraper) is also an opera venue? Neither did I! But that's where Center City Opera Theater is producing The Shops, a timely, absurdist comedy targeting materialism and consumer culture. Co-commissioned in 2006 by the English Opera Group and Austrian performing-arts festival Bregenzer Festspiele, this oper-atire (has that portmanteau been coined yet?) — penned by husband-and-wife team Edward Rushton and Dagny Gioulami — will be performed in the area which is normally restaurant and shopping space. WHYY arts and culture reporter/sometimes CP scribe Peter Crimmins reported on the unusual venue earlier this week; read his Newsworks piece here, or preview selections from the opera at the composers' website. The Shops, Fri.-Sat., Dec. 17-18, 8:30 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 19, 5 p.m.; $29-$39, The Market & Shops at Comcast Center, 1701 JFK Blvd., operatheater.org.

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