Folk Opera With Local Roots in the Manhattan

“Giovanni the Fearless,” a new commedia dell’arte folk opera about actors, young lovers, and ghosts, with music by Mira J. Spektor and book and lyrics by Carolyn Balducci, will have its premiere at the Theater for the New City in Manhattan with an eight-performance run beginning tomorrow at 8 p.m.

Ms. Balducci, who is the program director at the Montauk Library, has written novels, poetry, nonfiction, plays, articles, and reviews. Ms. Spektor, who has a house in East Hampton, is also a lyricist and poet with many chamber operas and musicals to her credit. The play’s projections are by Bank Street Films, which was co-founded by Gabriel Spektor, her grandson. 

Tickets are $18, $10 for children. More information is available from the theater’s website.