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HIGH POINT — One question many marketgoers long have asked is, “Why can’t I hear some grand opera while I’m in High


Point?” Not the stuffy, gussied-up sort, but real heart-on-sleeve arias dressed up with hard-hitting, rock-style accompaniments.

Well, you’ve come to the right market. And you can’t beat the price: $0.

The three-year-old East Village Opera Company will perform Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 p.m. in the High Point Theater, next to the Commerce Avenue entrance to the International Home Furnishings Center. The event, open to the community and to marketgoers, is free, but tickets are required for admission.

The New York-based troupe consists of a five-piece rock band, a string quartet and two vocalists. They present standard, popular operatic arias by such composers as Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, but in modern dress, sometimes in the original language and sometimes in English.

The EVOC has performed at such events as the 2013 Miss USA Pageant.

“With modern recording technology and a wide variety of musical styles at our disposal, our goal has been to approach these songs the way we feel the composers would were they alive today,” said East Village Opera Company co-founder and vocalist Tyley Ross.

Tickers are available at the High Point Theater box office at 220 E. Commerce Ave., by telephone at (336) 887-3001, or online at www.highpointtheatre.com. Tickets and seating are first-come, first-served.