Lone Star Lyric Summer Festival 2017: Viva La Mamma

Please join us for two weekends of comic opera and sizzling cabaret right in the heart of Midtown.

Lone Star Lyric presents Viva La Mamma, by Gaetano Donizetti. Running JUNE 16, 24 & 25 at MATCH Houston.

A stage mamma opera drama. A comic opera in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti.

She doesn’t have any weapons. Just her mouth.

What could be funnier than an opera about an opera with more than one leading lady fighting for the spotlight?

Set in the late 50’s, we find an Italian opera company desperately trying to mount a new production, while hurdling all the traditional conventions and stereotypes of the Golden Age of Opera: a prima donna refusing to take direction, a tenor who doesn’t know his part and a director pulling his hair out in frustration.

Not that any of the other principals are much better.

When the larger-than-life mother of the seconda donna, Mamma Agatha (written for a baritone), storms onto the scene demanding that her daughter be given a number of her own, the company loses half its cast, opening the way for her to make her stage debut alongside the prima donna’s husband.

Just as the production threatens to become a fiasco, Mamma Agatha saves the day by financing the show just as the director learns that his original backers have abandoned the project.

This is “Dance Moms” and “Toddlers & Tiaras” hilariously spun out of control.

(Sung in English with piano trio orchestration.)

Ticket Information

Reserved seating, the box office will be open 2 hours before every ticketed performance.

Box Office Hours:
Phone sales, the box office will be open:
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Wednesday – Friday
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM Saturday – Sunday
2 hours before every ticketed performance

You can reach the box office at 713-521-4533 or
boxoffice@matchouston.org.

Individual tickets:
$30 per seat
$35 per table-side seat

Summer Subscribers:
$108 – includes two tickets for VIVA LA MAMMA and two tickets for WHITE HOT CABARET
$125 – includes two table-side tickets for VIVA LA MAMMA and two table-side tickets for WHITE HOT CABARET

Individual Dates & Times*

* Please check with the presenting organization or venue to confirm start times and/or duration.