Join us for a FREE performance of the children’s opera “Treble Trouble”, a production of Prairie Fire Theatre and Illinois Wesleyan University! This fun-filled show for kiddos and their adults is approximately 40 minutes long. Seating will be limited. There is no registration required.About Treble Trouble:
Heads up, Land of Melodia! Count Sticky Fingers is planning to steal all your notes and feed them into the Music Munching Machine! And those notes include the magic Star Notes that must be hung and sung in the palace courtyard each night as the moon rises. That ritual is the only protection Melodians have from the Petrification Curse, which has begun to leak out anyway. Just look over there! Queen Adagio’s legs are turning to stone! It’s up to you, Princess Poco. Can you recapture the notes and reverse the curse before it’s too late?
Heads up, Land of Melodia! Count Sticky Fingers is planning to steal all your notes and feed them into the Music Munching Machine! And those notes include the magic Star Notes that must be hung and sung in the palace courtyard each night as the moon rises. That ritual is the only protection Melodians have from the Petrification Curse, which has begun to leak out anyway. Just look over there! Queen Adagio’s legs are turning to stone! It’s up to you, Princess Poco. Can you recapture the notes and reverse the curse before it’s too late?
This operatic romp introduces night sky constellations and musical concepts such as the treble clef and how notes work. At its heart, it explores the ways music belongs to everyone, how we’re braver than we think, and the fact that anyone can step up and do the right thing.
This production is made possible by a grant from the Jerome Mirza Foundation and in partnership with Illinois Wesleyan University.
About Prairie Fire Theatre Children’s Opera:
For almost 20 years, Prairie Fire Theatre has produced an annual children’s opera to introduce young art appreciators to live theatre and music. In recent years, PFT has toured 40-50 schools and other venues and performed for approximately 10,000 children and adults annually. Each children’s opera includes a cast of 4-5 singers (mostly local college students) plus a music director/pianist.
For almost 20 years, Prairie Fire Theatre has produced an annual children’s opera to introduce young art appreciators to live theatre and music. In recent years, PFT has toured 40-50 schools and other venues and performed for approximately 10,000 children and adults annually. Each children’s opera includes a cast of 4-5 singers (mostly local college students) plus a music director/pianist.
Since 2011, PFT has commissioned talented local author Nancy Steele Brokaw to write an original children’s opera. Ms. Brokaw develops a child-oriented story and then adapts the lyrics of classical arias by composers like Mozart and Gilbert and Sullivan to fit the story line. Each children’s opera contains a message or theme, such as caring for the environment, being kind to others, putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, and “different can be good”.