{"id":58536,"date":"2014-04-08T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=58536"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:21:14","slug":"ucf-opera-present-comedy-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-opera-present-comedy-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Opera to Present Comedy Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 海角直播 Opera will present the Florida premiere of \u201cSpeed Dating Tonight!,\u201d a one-act, comic opera performed in English this weekend, April 12-13.<\/p>\n<p>The production at the Visual Arts Building offers an amusing take on a night of romantic mingling at a bar, performed by up to 26 speed daters, a bartender, cocktail waitress, busboy and dating coordinator. Flexible casting requirements and interchangeable parts result in an unusual performance experience.<\/p>\n<p>Each performance will be preceded by a talk from Michael Ching, \u201cSpeed Dating Tonight!\u201d composer and conductor. Audiences are also invited to post-performance roundtable discussions with performers, composers and staff. Ching was the general director of Opera Memphis from 1992-2010 and is now the music director of Buffalo\u2019s Nickel City Opera. He also composed the comic opera \u201cBuoso\u2019s Ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The opera will be 7 p.m. April 12 and 3 p.m. April 13 in Auditorium 132 in the Visual Arts Building. Tickets at the door are $15 for general admission or $5 with a UCF ID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 海角直播 Opera will present the Florida premiere of \u201cSpeed Dating Tonight!,\u201d a one-act, comic opera performed in English this weekend, April 12-13. 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