Des Moines Metro Opera to perform at Dordt on March 22

Area residents of Sioux Center, Iowa 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 Friday, March 22 to present Grétry/Borths’ Beauty and the Beast (sung in English), at 7:30 p.m. in the B.J. Haan Auditorium on the campus of Dordt University. The performance is free and open to the public.

OPERA Iowa will also present a children’s opera, “Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing,” the story of a serpent in the circus who longs for more than just slithering in and out of his basket—he wants to sing! This performance will be in the B.J. Haan Auditorium on Friday, March 22, starting at 1:15 pm.

Over the past 38 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 more than one million 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 52^nd Festival Season, featuring performances of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, R. Strauss’s Salome, Debussy’s Pelléas & Mélisande and Geter/Palmer’s American Apollo during its Summer Festival which will run from June 28 through July 21, 2024. For more information on Des Moines Metro Opera’s upcoming season, visit our website at desmoinesmetroopera.org.

For more information on the OPERA Iowa performances at Dordt University, contact the Dordt University Music Office at 712-722-6222.

About Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the Reformed Christian perspective, Dordt University equips students, faculty, alumni, and the broader community to work toward Christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary life. Located in Sioux Center, Iowa, Dordt is a comprehensive university named to the best college lists by U.S. News and World Report, the Wall Street Journal, Times Higher Education, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review.