A one-act opera set in Wilmington's Little Italy and written and produced by two local musicians will play next weekend at The Wilmington Music School.
"Agostino and the Puccini Clarinet" tells the story of a boy named Agostino who hears the bands at the St. Anthony's Italian Festival and, encouraged by his mother and grandfather, decides to learn to play the clarinet. He encounters three music teachers with quite different personalities. Along the way, a legendary clarinet that Puccini himself had given to the neighborhood's Cosimo DiLaScala is stolen and recovered.
The cast includes three local children -- Asher Denburg of Pike Creek, Mallory Kerin of Wilmington and David Waterland of Chadds Ford, Pa. -- as principal singers (five adults also are principal singers) and a volunteer chorus whose members have appeared in operas at the Wilmington Music School and with OperaDelaware.
The Wilmington Music School and Societa DaVinci are sponsoring the production, with support from the National Italian-American Foundation, the Delaware Division of the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, The Brandywiners and individuals.
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