Opera Theater presents “The Old Maid and the Thief”

Joshua Zink, Artistic Director of KSU Opera Theatre

Shinae Bak, piano

Step into a world of gossip and intrigue in The Old Maid and the Thief by Gian Carlo Menotti, the visionary founder of Spoleto Festival USA.

This comedic one-act, composed in 1939 as a radio opera, uses an English language libretto by the composer which tells a twisted tale of morals and evil womanly power.

Menotti writes in the libretto “The devil couldn’t do what a woman can - Make a thief out of an honest man.”