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  • MARIONETTE OPERA!
    Carter Family Marionettes
    Chamber Orchestra & Professional Singers

    Each year, Northwest Puppet Center presents an elaborate baroque marionette opera. Hand-carved figures take the stage with chamber orchestra and singers on either side of the proscenium.

    Playing April 23 - May 2, 2010
    Pulcinella Vendicato

    More details about this upcoming opera




    Past productions have included:

    La Grandmere Amoureuse
    Il Girello
    The Burning House
    The Sneeze of Hercules
    The Dragon of Wantley
    The Magic Flute
    The Life and Death of Tom Thumb
    The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina
    Don Giovanni
    Don Quixote

    On occassion, these productions can be made available for touring. Magnificat presented "La Grandmere Amoureuse" and "Il Girello" in California's Bay Area. Seattle's Early Music Guild presented "La Grandmere Amoureuse" in Seattle and Kirkland. The most recent tour brought "The Burning House" to Potsdam, Germany for the music festival held at the palace of Frederick the Great.