Opera Roanoke: “South Pacific”

Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan Scott Williamson, artistic director and conductor J. J. Hudson, stage director featuring Corey Crider, as Emile De Becque Ariana Wyatt, as Nellie Forbush and the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra The center proudly presents Opera Roanoke’s fully staged production, with orchestra, of this timeless Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway blockbuster for one night only in Blacksburg. Known for its extraordinary score and adapted from James Michener’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Tales of the South Pacific, this classic American musical is set on an island paradise during World War II. Against this backdrop, two parallel love stories bloom and are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war.