Sunday, November 24, 2019 | Start Time: 03:00 PM

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“Your name is a number, your story’s a case.”  Gian-Carlo Menotti’s The Consul touches on issues of fascism, political resistance, and immigration bureaucracy.  Magda Sorel’s husband John has been wounded by the police and has fled the country as a dissident, and Magda finds herself at the consulate, trying in vain to obtain a visa to leave the country.  As Magda becomes increasingly exasperated with the “papers, papers, papers” and the consul’s failure to appear, Magda passionately exclaims that the day will come when “neither ink nor seal shall cage our souls.”  The Consul, which earned Menotti a Pulitzer Prize for Music, speaks across the decades to current debates about borders and refugees with stunning clarity. Information is available at baltimoreconcertopera.com or 443-445-0226.