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This production provides an excellent introduction to the Vienna-born composer for those who aren't familiar with him – a group that may include many opera fans.

One by an African American composer, the other by a Jewish immigrant, these two one-act operas can both be seen as quintessentially American.

Glorious music and wonderful singing more than compensate for a weak story in this comic opera by the first classical composer of African ancestry.

This spicy little production of two one-act operas provides a mini-survey of the the 'Susannah' composer's talents as he progressed from a gifted youngster to a mature artist with a sensibility very much his own.