Opera Westminster will present "The Gypsy Baron" by Johann Strauss Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Directed by Dr. Anne Hagan Bentz, Westminster associate professor of music, the story includes a castle, gypsies, recovered treasure, a funny pig farmer and his family, and new-found love.

Bentz has been with Westminster since 2001. She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware; an artist's degree in vocal performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany; and a DMA from the University of Maryland.

Other Westminster faculty and staff members in the production include Mihai Valcu, adjunct music faculty, conductor; Marie Libal-Smith, adjunct music faculty, pianist; Jonathan Moser, instructor of music, as Zsupan, a rich pig farmer; William Ambert, adjunct music faculty, and Dan Konnen, Orr stage manager, as townsfolk.

Chuck Wiley of New Wilmington is a boatman, and Lynn Rodemoyer of West Middlesex is one of the townsfolk.

Contact Bentz at (724) 946-6045 or e-mail bentzah@westminster.edu for additional information. 

Dr. Anne Bentz