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<\/a>Bruce Schoonmaker<\/p><\/div>\n
GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014The Furman Opera, Furman Symphony Orchestra, and Furman Chamber Choir will present a double bill featuring Puccini\u2019s Sister Angelica<\/em> and Moore\u2019s The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/em> on Thursday, Feb. 16 and Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors 60 and older, and $10 for students. The operas are performed in English and suitable for all ages.<\/p>\n Bruce Schoonmaker directs the operas with Thomas Joiner conducting the Furman Opera Orchestra and singing actors. Chorus master is Hugh Floyd.<\/p>\n In fully staged performances, Sister Angelica<\/em> presents a tale of forgiveness and redemption, followed by The Devil and Daniel Webster <\/em>which reveals a spirited story of steadfastness and love of liberty.<\/p>\n Cast members include Elizabeth Beeson, \u201812 (Greenville) who portrays the Mistress of Novices in Sister Angelica<\/em>. Katie Atkinson, \u201812 (Greenville) plays the steadfast Mary Stone in The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/em> along with Chase McAbee, \u201812 (Blue Ridge) who plays the dastardly Scratch.<\/p>\n For more information about the event, call the Furman Music Office at 864-294-2086.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" January 25, 2012 GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014The Furman Opera, Furman Symphony Orchestra, and Furman Chamber Choir will present a double bill featuring Puccini\u2019s Sister Angelica<\/em> and Moore\u2019s The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/em> on Thursday, Feb. 16 and Saturday, Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for seniors 60 and older, and $10 for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTina Underwood, Media Relations<\/p>\n