Friday Night at the Opera - Verdi's "Las forza del destino"

PROGRAM ROOM B

A five-week fall opera series featuring clips of opera productions and lively commentary and background by composer, educator, writer and lecturer Dr. Robert Butts, who is also the artistic director and conductor of the Baroque Orchestra of NJ. Tonight's featured opera will be La forza del destino, an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino, by Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. No registration is required. Doors open at 7pm. Fee: $5/per lecture. The series is generously sponsored by The Friends of BTL.