Ars Nova's winter opera production will be Lehar's "The Merry Widow" in the VBC Playhouse January 27 - 29, 2012 with orchestra. Conducted by Billy Orton, this flirtatious operetta will have you singing along with your favorite tunes.
Ars Nova's other children's production this 2011-2012 season will be St. George and the Dragon by Tinsley & Pogue the last week of April.
Ars Nova presents the classic opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart August 2012 in the VBC Playhouse with full orchestra. Cosi fan tutte's libretto was written by Da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart. The story is about two young ladies who each have a lover. Don Alfonso, a cynical bachelor, makes a bet with the two men that their girlfriends would easily fall in love with someone else. The two lovers disguise themselves, and attempt to woo the other's girlfriend. At first the ladies aren't willing, but later they are.....
Ars Nova is made possible in part through generous grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts 
