Aug
11

Camille Zamora

Mascha

The Chocolate Soldier

Bard SummerScape

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Camille Zamora: Mascha

Oscar Straus’s charming 1908 chamber opera is a fusion of Viennese operetta and British wit, based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man.The Chocolate Soldier is a comical take on an unusual boy-meets-girl scenario: when Lieutenant Bummerli, a Swiss mercenary assisting the Serbian army in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, spontaneously takes refuge in the household of a Bulgarian general, he sets the hearts of all the women aflutter. But when he is recognized as a deserter, he ruins the general’s daughter Nadina’s upcoming wedding to a soldier. As it turns out, this is just as well—Bummerli and Nadina were destined for each other.  Tickets & Information.