Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the allure and passion of opera. In this concert, first-year Maryland Opera Studio students perform partially staged— but fully dramatic — new works for opera.

In Love/Hate by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis, a couple at a bus stop lives through all the reasons they have for never meeting.

What happens when Supreme Court justices go before a Higher Power? In this comic opera inspired by Supreme Court opinions, Justices Ginsburg and Scalia must pass through three cosmic trials to secure their freedom. The catch: they may have to agree on the Constitution. Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a valentine to law and opera, where the law’s leading players go toe-to-toe and trill-to-trill in a (gentle) parody of operatic proportions. Opinions will be offered. Dissents will be delivered. And justice will be sung.

Program subject to change.