Painting by Mike Zamansky

Bastien und Bastienne / Le 66

Two soprano shepherdesses, two tenors tempted by life in the city, two basses mediating the ensuing conflict. Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne and Offenbach’s Le 66 are two one-act operettas which tell of characters pulled this way and that by the call of the pastoral and the metropolitan. At this crossroads, what else but hilarity can ensue? Both works are comic operas with dialogue, one with an elegant and refined score by opera’s favorite child prodigy, and the other with wall-to-wall toe-tappers by the uncontested master of French operetta.

Bastien und Bastienne

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner

June 26 - 27, 2026
The Fred and Adele Astaire Ballroom
Houghton Hall Arts Community
22 East 30th Street

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Le 66

Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin

Director - Natan Zamansky
Music Director - Eric Peterson


Ages Ago

Sir Ebenezer Tare has taken possession of Glen-Cockaleekie Castle, taking advantage of its disputed state of ownership, as the title deed is only discovered, like clockwork, every hundred years. But the century is soon up, and the spirits that haunt the castle, taking the form of living portraits of all its previous owners, have more than a little to say about who owns the title deed to what around here! This one-act musical entertainment by W.S. Gilbert and Frederic Clay showcases the librettist’s signature blend of legal hijinks and supernatural whimsy, combined with a score by one of England’s most eminent composers of comic opera in the years before Gilbert teamed up with Sullivan.

 

October 23 - 24, 2026
Grace & St. Paul’s Church
123 West 71st Street

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