Christina Cinnamo of Franklin Square Stars in Hofstra Opera Theater, Jan. 31-Feb. 2

2014 Jan 24

Hofstra Opera Theater in the Department of Music at Hofstra University presents its annual production, a double feature, Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Christoph Gluck's The Reformed Drunk, Friday, January 31, to Sunday, February 2, 2014, at the John Cranford Adams Playhouse.

In addition to artistic direction by Isabel Milenski and musical direction by Adam Glaser, this performance features the talents of Christina Cinnamo, 18, of Franklin Square. Christina is majoring in Music Education at Hofstra.

Show times are 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $15 general admission and $12 senior citizen (over 65) or matriculated non-Hofstra student with ID. Members of the Hofstra community receive two free tickets upon presentation of a current HofstraCard. For tickets and more information call the Hofstra Box Office at (516) 463-6644, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets are also available at www.tickets.com and at the door.

Dido and Aeneas tells the tragic love story of Dido, the Queen of Carthage, and the Trojan hero Aeneas. A sorceress tricks Aeneas into leaving Dido. In the heat of passion Dido takes her own life.

In The Reformed Drunk, two local barflies Mathurin and Lucas are scheming to marry Lucas to Colette, Maturin's niece. However, Colette has ideas of her own about whom to marry, a local actor, Cleon. After a debauched evening, Mathurin and Lucas awake from a pleasant dream to find themselves in Hell. The Devil challenges them to do the unthinkable--give up drink.