Curtain Raisers

Opera della Luna presents a double bill of two short operettas by Arthur Sullivan and Offenbach. Cox and Box tells the farcical tale of an unscrupulous landlord who rents out the same room to two tenants – Cox, who works by day, and Box who works by night. The ruse works until one day, Cox is given the day off and they meet much to the horror of the landlord, Sergeant Bouncer. Les Deux Aveugles is the story of two separate con-men who are both pretending to be blind beggars and arrive one day at the same patch on a Parisian bridge. The two operettas are performed in one sitting.