Details

Item details

Date

Saturday, Apr 22, 2023 2:30PM

Name

Maker of Illusions

Description

The Detroit Opera Youth Chorus presents...

A fully staged youth opera, Maker of Illusions by Seymour Barab. A wicked queen is exiled to a mountaintop, where she is guarded by a genie and his goblins. Fearing the loss of her beauty, the queen commands the genie to bring her a youth whose life force she can steal. The Genie works an illusion on a boy of the valley below, causing him to run away from his home and go up the mountain, where he feels a happy fate awaits him. The boy’s sister, fearing he will freeze or starve, goes in pursuit of him. The Genie tries to stop the sister but her determination overcomes his efforts and she rescues him in the nick of time. In the end, the Queen learns the true nature of the life force and is redeemed.

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