Intermountain Opera Bozeman, Montana’s most widely acclaimed opera company, continues its 40th anniversary season with Bock, Masteroff and Harnick’s She Loves Me. Performances will be held February 9th–18th with Friday and Saturday shows at 7:30pm, followed by Sunday matinees at 3pm. A special Thursday presentation is set for Feb. 15th at 7:30pm. All will beheld at the beautifully restored Rialto theater.
She Loves Me is a delightful romantic comedy that soars through the exhilarating and sometimes confusing anticipation of love. Sales clerks in a Hungarian parfumerie, Georg and Amalia spend their days quarreling with each other; yet unbeknownst to them, at night they write adoring love letters to each other as lonely hearts pen pals. How their discovery of each other unfolds is nothing short of endearing.
She Loves Me is based on Miklós László’s Parfumerie. The play also inspired the 1940 Jimmy Stewart-Margaret Sullavan film The Shop Around the Corner, the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version of In the Good Old Summertime, and most recently, the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan film of You’ve Got Mail. She Loves Me is a musical with a book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock.
Directed by DJ Salsibury, Intermountain’s production of She Loves Me stars Jazmin Gorsline, Kyle Pfortmiller, Anthony Offerle, Jesse Lagos, Kim Sava, Lukas Graf, Tony LaLonde, and Reggie Mead. Cynthia Meng takes on the role of Music Director.
The mission of the Intermountain Opera Association of Bozeman, established in 1979, is to promote and share the joy of opera in Montana and surrounding areas by providing affordable, high quality opera performances to audience members of all ages and to provide educational outreach to area schools and communities.
Learn more about Intermountain’s 40th season — including the fervently cunning affairs of this spring’s Falstaff —
and purchase tickets at intermountainopera.org. •
