A BLO adaptation of the Wolf Trap world premiere The Inspector is based loosely on Gogol’s 19th century farce, The Government Inspector – a savage and savagely funny indictment of official corruption in Tsarist Russia. The transference to Italy under the pudgy but dangerous thumb of Benito Mussolini has allowed composer John Musto and librettist Mark Campbell to create an edgily vivid and exuberant picture of a Sicilian town in the 1930s. Sung in English with projected text Libretto by Mark Campbell Mayor Fazzobaldi - Jake Gardner Sarelda - Victoria Livengood* Beatrice - Meredith Hansen Tancredi - Neal Ferreira Malacorpa - Dorothy Byrne Cosimo - David Kravitz Adolfo - David Cushing Padre Ruffiano - Julius Ahn Agrippa - Michelle Trainor Bobachino - Nicole Rodin Bobachina - Kathryn Skemp * BLO Debut Conductor - David Angus Esther Nelson, General & Artistic Director David Angus, Music Director Citi Performing Arts CenterSM Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont Street, Boston Evening performances at 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees at 3:00 pm. BLO Audience Services: 617.542.6772 857-891-4483 http://www.blo.org/subscription_landing_page.html
