THEATER | Seagle?s Children?s Opera - Tannery Pond Community Center

Tannery Pond Center presents: Seagle’s Children’s Opera “Monkey & Francine in the City of Tigers”

February 29 | 10:30 AM

Free

This event is supported by the NY State Council on the Arts.

A children’s opera by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist David Johnston, originally commissioned by Houston Grand Opera To Go in partnership with American Lyric Theatre. Performers: Hayley Glenn, soprano – as Francine, Owen Connolly, tenor – as Monkey, Madeline Darigan, mezzo-soprano – as Monkey Queen/Lord Tiger, Charles Sanderson, baritone – as Monkey King/Crocodile/Lady Tiger.

"Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers" is an opera for youth audiences that follows Monkey and his brainy sister Francine as they learn to work together, fusing folktales from India, China, and West Africa, and outsmart a hungry crocodile and a greedy Lord of the Tigers.