The University of Southern Indiana Philip J. Hagemann Performing Arts Department, in association with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and Murray Rosenthal, are proud to present Farce and Follies: A USI Opera Event. Performances will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, January 30 and 2 p.m. Saturday, January 31 in the USI Performance Center.
Performances will feature two musical works that demonstrate how music can be a mirror, for better or worse, of the human condition.
The first act consists of The Music Cure, an adaptation by Philip Hagemann of the George Bernard Shaw one-act of the same name. Originally premiering in 1913, Shaw’s play (which he subtitled “a Piece of Utter Nonsense”) has been enriched by Hagemann’s musical setting…