“This is a type of rebirth.”Īs the desert sky turned orange, the audience erupted before the performers took the stage. “This is part of our coming out especially after all the months of having been isolated and everything being shut down,” said Linda McDonald-Hummingbird, a retired nurse and semi-professional singer.
Aficionados dressed to impress, unfolded tables and chairs and laid out picnics and glasses of champagne. Opera lovers started the party hours before sunset in the parking lot. The story tracks the day of a marriage between a woman of high birth and a working-class man as they fend off the advances of a lusty count. Hundreds of people gathered last Saturday to watch the first show of the season - “Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro),” Mozart’s 1786 Italian opera reimagined in a 1930s depression-era set.
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