Join us to hear the Capitol City Opera Company at Dinner and a Diva, on Tuesday, June 20 and Thursday, June 22 for a night of delicious food and performances from Gaetano Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.
Enjoy a four-course dinner paired with wine, featuring hors d’ oeuvres, salad, choice of two gourmet entrees, dessert, coffee/tea, and two glasses of wine, for $75 per person (plus taxes and fees). Hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar open at 6:15 p.m., and the dinner and show start promptly at 7:00 p.m
“We witness the violent clash of two personalities who are complete opposites: in power, love and belief. In 1587, Maria Stuarda, Queen of Scotland, has been held prisoner for several years by her cousin Elisabetta, Queen of England. Roberto, Earl of Leicester, with whom Elisabetta is secretly in love, wants to help Maria, to whom he declares his love and proposes marriage to her. He advises Maria to be conciliatory towards her powerful cousin. But the two queens face off at a meeting whose violence leads Elisabetta to sign the death warrant for Maria, who has publicly insulted her. The cruelty of Elisabetta, devoured by jealousy, extends to demanding that Roberto attend her rival’s execution.”
Dinner and a Diva: Maria Stuarda is sponsored by Ron Kite and Laura Brookshire.