A New Opera

Buon Giorno!
   I haven't written anything in a LONG time, but I just got back from an opera and wanted to tell you about it. The Hawaii Performing Arts Festival is active every year in July. They do concerts and opera performances at the HPA theater and chapel. The performance I saw was called "The Impresario's Dilemma." It was a collection of pieces from all sorts of operas and composers, from Handel to Puccini, and it was loosely based on a Mozart opera called "The Impresario."
   The plot was very basic: an impresario (a person who organizes performances for an opera theater) is looking for the perfect diva to sing in their opera. Seven ladies arrive to audition. They start getting catty (pardon the pun), and break into Rossini's Cat Duet, arranged for seven voices. The impresario calls the divas up one at a time to audition. The first soprano sings a Handel aria. As she starts to sing the second half, the impresario loudly says "thank you," and the soprano stalks indignantly offstage. During another soprano's aria, she starts flirting with the impresario's assistant. She steals his watch and runs away. 
   After every diva has auditioned, the impresario makes his decision. "All of you have done well," he tells the divas, "and so you will all be in the opera!" The divas gasp. Who will get the lead role? The assistant hands them their parts. The singers look at the music and discover... that they are in the chorus!!! The opera ends with the divas chasing the impresario offstage and hitting them with their chorus music.
   I was very impressed with the whole performance. The music was well-chosen, and the opera singers are all extremely talented. I will write again soon with some more exciting news!

P.S: Here is my favorite version of Rossini's Cat Duet. All they sing is "meow."