The Delaware Valley Opera Company is delighted to present a triple bill — one new work, and two classics.
The Stronger, in English, by local composer Misha Dutka, is based on the Strindberg play by that name. A retired actress bumps into an old friend in a restaurant on Christmas Eve. As she reminisces about their years together in the theater, she uncovers a dark secret that threatens to destroy their friendship and her happiness.

Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Turiddu loves Lola. Lola loves him, but marries Alfonso. To get back at Lola, Turiddu seduces Santuzza. Santuzza falls in love with Turiddu, but he doesn't love her back. A happy ending is not in the cards.

I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo will be sung in Italian with English supertitles. Canio, the leading man in a traveling theater troupe, makes a show of being a loving husband, but Nedda, his wife and fellow actor, fears his anger. When he learns she is being unfaithful, he unleashes his rage , no longer able to tell where play acting ends and reality begins.