Opera Preview with Norm Hollingshead: The Consul

The
Consul is set in an unnamed totalitarian country in the mid-20th Century. It is
a grim story of Cold War politics, in which Magda Sorel, the embattled wife of
a political fugitive, tries to keep herself, her infant child, and her aged
mother-in law alive as her husband evades the secret police. Her only hope is
to receive an all-important visa from the Consul, but to do that she must
surmount a bureaucratic nightmare. In Act 3, help is finally on the way, but
will it be too late for Magda? Sponsored by the Bellevue Friends of the Library.