Postcard from Morocco

Production of Postcard from Morocco by Dominick Argento

Lisa Thurrell & Robert E. Cleary choreographers + Kanopy Company Dancers

A Moroccan train station becomes a crossroad of dreams in this witty and touching entertainment about strangers, secrets, and stories. Argento’s sparkling score is by turns romantic, mysterious, dramatic, and delightfully unhinged in this 90-minute work that is richly human and thoroughly theatrical. Kanopy Dance joins Madison Opera in a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary – and every suitcase holds a story. Kanopy’s Robert E. Cleary is featured as the “Puppet Master” in this production.

Postcard from Morocco is an opera in one act composed by Dominick Argento and libretto written by John Donahue under a commission from the Center Opera Company (now the Minnesota Opera).

The opera is based on A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, and premiered on October 14, 1971, at the Cedar Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, conducted by Philip Brunelle with stage direction by John Donahue.

Kanopy has had the singular privilege of working with General Manager Kathryn Smith and the Madison Opera on three previous and always stellar productions: Florencia en el Amazonas, Seven Deadly Sins and Maria de Buenos Aires.