The Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company performs its production of “The Mikado,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic opera, on Wednesday, June 15 at 7:15 p.m. at Congregation Tifereth Israel in Glen Cove.
W. S. Gilbert, the lyricist and book writer, set this hilarious satire in Japan with Japanese characters, a device that allowed him to more freely skewer British officials and institutions.
Der Yiddisher Mikado will be performed with Yiddish lyrics and English dialogue.
Starring in the role of Yum Yum, or in Yiddish, Tsipe Tsviele, is Glen Cove’s own Carly Baron, a soprano who studied voice and opera at Muhlenberg College and Florence University of the Arts.
In addition to the Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company, Baron has also sung with the Utopia Opera, Schola Cantorum on Hudson and Schola Repertory Singers ensembles.
She is a winner of the Meistersingers German Lied Vocal Competition and the Collegiate Aria and Art Song Category of NATS.
Baron is the daughter of Barbara and Jay Baron of Glen Cove.
Explaining her interest in Yiddish, Baron said that she is the granddaughter of a fluent Yiddish speaker and teacher.
She has been singing in Yiddish since middle school when she performed for three years with the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s Kids and Yiddish.
Baron is thrilled to be reconnecting with her past as a Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera Company cast member.
Tickets for Der Yiddisher Mikado are $18 per person. There will be light refreshments with a cash bar.
The performance begins at 8 p.m. To obtain tickets, call CTI at (516) 676-5080.
CTI is located in Glen Cove, 40 Hill Street, at Landing Road.
Long Island’s oldest continuously operating Jewish congregation, CTI has provided Jewish programming and education to the Long Island community since 1897.
