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CU New Opera Workshop presents “A Song for Susan Smith”

7:30 p.m. Friday, June 12 and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14, ATLAS Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Opera may be a centuries old art form, but it’s far from extinct. The University of Colorado Boulder’s sixth season of the CU New Opera Workshop (CU NOW) will culminate in two public performances this weekend of A Song for Susan Smith, an opera written by Pulitzer Prizewinning librettist and CU alum Mark Campbell and composed by Zach Redler. Inspired by the real life case of Susan Smith, a South Carolina woman who drowned her sons in 1994, the opera will be performed by CU voice and composition students. It will be followed by a question session with Campbell, Redler and the show’s performers.

—Sam Routhier