Opéra Louisiane is excited to present two 1 hour operas,

both of which are preformed in English.

Join us for a preshow talk about the operas beginning 1 hour before the show

featuring composer D.J. Sparr.

• Student Tickets •

Use code STUDENT23 at checkout for student pricing.

Rocking Horse Winner

by Gareth Williams & Anna Chatterton

A modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short story, Rocking Horse Winner explores the relationship between Paul, a young man with developmental challenges, and his emotionally distant mother. Paul becomes dangerously obsessed with solving the “bad luck” of his family in order to win his mother’s love. His pursuit awakens a strange magic that connects him to luck, but also to powerful voices only he can hear. In our new age of entitlement Rocking Horse Winner is an intimate, psychological look at love, “luck”, and greed.

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Approaching Ali

by D.J. Sparr, Mark Campbell, & Davis Miller

The story is about a boy in North Carolina in the early 1960s who is galvanized to overcome some traumatic childhood events when he sees Muhammad Ali on television. More than twenty years later, as a writer on the brink of middle age, he now seeks to rekindle that spirit by visiting his boyhood hero in person at his mother's home in Louisville, Kentucky.