Utah Opera: Regina January 21, 2009

Set in the Deep South in the year 1900, this distinctively American opera chronicles the demise of a wealthy southern family torn apart by greed. Regina Giddens schemes and double-crosses until she is left with only her wealth and loneliness. In 'Regina,' Marc Blitzstein adeptly blends operatic lyricism, spirituals, ragtime, blues, and Dixieland.