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"Deanne Meek in the title role of Marc Blitzstein's Regina at Utah Opera has the potential to be a singular sensation." - Opera News

Based on the play The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, Regina holds special note for Utahns as it premiered on Broadway in 1949 with conductor Maurice Abravanel (he won a Tony Award for his conducting of this Opera). Set in the Deep South in the year 1900, this distinctively American opera chronicles the demise of a wealthy southern family torn apart by greed. Regina Giddens schemes and double-crosses until she is left with only her wealth and loneliness. Though Blitzstein’s work is little-known today, it has been said that in his era, no one surpassed his genius for setting American words to American music. In Regina, Blitzstein adeptly blends operatic lyricism, spirituals, ragtime, blues, and Dixieland.

Sung in English with English supertitles