4:59 p.m., May 1, 2007--UD's Opera Theater will present Street Scene at 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. duPont Music Building.

Based on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1929, this melodrama became a landmark collaboration in 1947 between German-Jewish immigrant composer Kurt Weill and African-American Harlem Renaissance lyricist Langston Hughes.

An all-student cast, directed by Lee Steward, faculty tenor, will sing the libretto accompanied by an all-student orchestra conducted by Brian Stone, assistant professor of music.

An academic forum discussing this important work will be held will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 5, in 118 Amy E. duPont Music Building, featuring Jon Conrad, associate professor of music; Howard Johnson, Francis H. Squire Professor of History and professor of Black American Studies; Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre; and Michael Cotsell, associate professor of English.

Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at the Trabant University Center or Bob Carpenter Center box offices. Cost is $17 for adults and $5 for children under 9.

This performance is funded in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Inc., 7 East 20th St., New York, NY 10003.

For more information, call (302) 831-0352.