Eve Queler, music director of the Opera Orchestra of New York, will guest conduct the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra for Oberlin Opera Theater’s spring production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro).

The curtain rises on Wednesday, March 16, at 8 p.m. with sold-out performances on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, at the same time, followed by a Sunday matinee on March 20 at 2 p.m. Reserved seating-tickets are still available for Wednesday and Sunday and may be purchased in advance by calling Oberlin’s Central Ticket Service at 440-775-8169. Tickets are $5 for all students, $8 for those with an Oberlin College I.D. (faculty, staff, parents, and alumni), area educators, and senior citizens, and $12 for the general public.

The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.

“This is one of the more brilliant operas from one of our more brilliant opera composers,” says stage director Jonathon Field, associate professor of opera theater and director of opera theater productions. “And Eve Queler continues the Oberlin tradition of having first-rate conductors for our opera students.”

An authority in the world of opera as a conductor of both standard and rare works, Queler has also given critical early exposure to many young singers who are now the foremost artists of our time, among them Jose Carreras, Renée Fleming, and Deborah Voigt.

The Marriage of Figaro is double cast in the principal roles, and features Todd Boyce ’05 and Edward Parks ’06 as Count Almaviva; Megan Hart ’05 and Jennifer Forni ’06 as Countess Almaviva; Marie Masters ’05 and Colette Boudreaux ’06 as Susanna, maid to the Countess; and Aaron Agulay ’06 and Jonathan Green ’05 as Figaro, valet to the Count.