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La Scala de Seta (the ladder made of silk) is a comedy written in 1812, by Gioacchino Rossini. Presented in Italian with English surtitles. 

Set in Paris around 1900. Every night beautiful Giulia lowers a silk ladder from her window for her lover to climb to her bedroom.  A series of misunderstandings turns their little love nest into a circus of relatives, suitors, and servants plotting, eavesdropping, and ultimately happily reconciling, in a blast of Rossini’s glorious vocal acrobatics. 

Sunday, November 13th at 2:30 pm; 90 minutes