Area residents of Tama-Toledo and surrounding towns will have the chance to see one of Iowa’s premier performing arts organizations when OPERA, Iowa, Des Moines Metro Opera’s educational touring troupe, arrives on April 28. During the day, the troupe will be leading workshops for the elementary students at the South Tama Elementary School, culminating in a performance Little Red’s Most Unusual Day at 2 p.m. That evening at 7:00 p.m., the Opera Iowa troupe will present a two-hour version of Mozart’s masterpiece, The Magic Flute (sung in English) at the Wieting Theatre. The performance is sponsored by Toledo PEO Chapter DF.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Lincoln Savings Bank and both locations at the State Bank of Toledo beginning Tuesday, April 14. Tickets may be purchased at the door the day of the performance. Ticket prices are Adults-$15 and Students-$12.

Over the past 32 years, the OPERA Iowa Educational Touring Troupe has performed in 10 states throughout the region and even in Japan and China, spreading the joy of opera to over 850,000 students and adults.

OPERA Iowa is an Education Division program of Des Moines Metro Opera, which is located in Indianola, Iowa, just south of Des Moines.

Des Moines Metro Opera will be celebrating its 48th Festival Season, featuring performances of Sondheim’s Sweeny Todd, Rameau’s Platee, and Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades during its summer festival, which will run from June 26 through July 16, 2020.

The Company’s 2nd Stages Series continues its collaborative efforts to engage new audiences in unique venues around the city with productions of Francis Poulenc’s The Human Voice in January/February and Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers in July. For more information on Des Moines Metro Opera’s upcoming season, call 515-961-6221 or visit our website at desmoinesmetroopera.org.

For more information on the OPERA Iowa performance, contact:

Mary Fasse-Shaw 641-751-5251

or Nancy Smith-641-751-5466