Exhausting to consider however 15 years in the past this summer season we (together with a whole lot of associates) had been busy cleansing, scraping, portray and usually prepping our newly acquired Hazel Inexperienced Opera Home for our first reveals. It was type of like awakening Sleeping Magnificence.

Our first present was, in fact, “The Lead Miner’s Daughter,” which additionally was our first present ever once we used to carry out in Benton.

So, right here we’re. This 12 months, for the primary time in 25 years, we won’t carry out on Labor Day weekend (though I can be doing a make-and-take puppet workshop within the park at 1 p.m. Sunday.) We’ve seen a pattern in smaller audiences on the vacation weekend as households go for a final camp-out and many others. And we misplaced audiences the final 2 years as Benton modified up its large celebration to Sunday as a substitute of Monday. So, we’re altering it up, too. We are going to carry out these two weekends in September. Come and see us. Who is aware of? Witch Hazel may make cupcakes.

“The Lead Miner’s Daughter”

11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Sat. Sept. 7

2 p.m. Solar. Sept. 8

11 a.m. & 2 p.m. Sat. Sept. 14

2 p.m. Solar. Sept. 15

With assist from a farmer, a cow and a badger, Adeline tries to save lots of her father when an evil goblin imprisons him in a lead mine in previous Wisconsin.