With “The Magic Flute” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Light Opera Company of Southern Maryland leaps backward to 1791, the last year of Mozart’s life, to his final opera, which he called a “musical” (a play with singing).   This summer the Light Opera Company will return to the theater in the St. John Vianney Family Life Center in Prince Frederick, Maryland, for two performances of “The Magic Flute” on July 31 at 7:00 p.m. and August 1 at 4:00 p.m.  Dr. Shawn Storer will conduct the performances, and Dr. Sandra Jarrett will produce and direct.  As always the production is fully staged and costumed, and is performed with a chamber orchestra recruited from local professionals.

“The Magic Flute” unfolds like a fairy tale, complete with a wicked queen, a prince who falls in love with a beautiful young woman, a flute that can cast a spell, and a series of trials that the hero and heroine must endure before they are united at last.  Along the way we meet memorable comic and villainous characters, a trio of spirits, evil serpents and enchanted animals--all wrapped up in some of the most sublime music Mozart ever wrote.

The Light Opera Company gives preference to local emerging professional opera soloists, and those who have sung with the company in the past.  For “The Magic Flute” the company has singers returning from “The Mikado” and “Orpheus in the Underworld”, as well as a number of new talents.  The children who will appear as animal characters are members of the Schubert Singers from La Plata, Maryland.

To purchase tickets and make reservations call 410-586-1371
General admission $25  Click Here Seniors, Students & Military $20

Now in its fifth season, the Light Opera Company of Southern Maryland brings comic opera and musical theater of high standard to audiences in southern Maryland.  It is the first and only professional opera company specifically serving audiences in the southern Maryland region.  It also provides an opportunity for local aspiring opera and musical theater soloists and musicians to gain experience in professional productions close to home.  The Company offers two productions annually—a fully staged comic opera with orchestra in the summer, and a production of the full length family opera "Hansel and Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck at Christmastime, with free performances for local schools.