World Premiere
Music by Luke Styles
Libretto by Alan McKendrick 

Performed in English with English supertitles

Don’t touch that dial…after a brief commercial break we’ll return with the misadventures of Max, Bettina, Joan, and Vendetta. Developed over the past decade with Opera Philadelphia, this world premiere is a neo-baroque comic chamber opera that combines the structures of a modern sitcom with those of baroque opera, creating a new form of storytelling that’s as far out as it is familiar and fun. As in classic TV, Sitcom’s four main characters are delightfully trapped in the eternal present of their own worlds—twenty-somethings who can’t help getting into trouble, finding adventure, and falling for the wrong octopus.