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Director, Steven A. Daigle
Conductor, Steven Byess Choreographer, Carol Hageman Set Design, Cassie King Costume Design, Stefanie Genda Lighting Design, Eric Norbury Photos by Matt Dilyard Farmer Wilhelm Dinglebender is promised riches by a shady real estate broker if he will sell his land for a new city to be built on it. Falling asleep while pondering the offer, Dinglebender dreams of the fully realized Dream City where he is both a millionaire and the Mayor of the utopian town. But his dream becomes a nightmare when he is forced to confront the bane of his existence: grand opera.
This first production of Victor Herbert's work since 1906, Herbert's score combines a wide range of styles that serves as a precursor to American musical theater, and features the hilarious "The Magic Knight" sequence, a wild parody of Wagner's Lohengrin. 
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