So many, many, many years ago when what is now Ohio Light Opera was attached to Kent State University, primarily Gilbert & Sullivan and even did a dinner theater stint in Cleveland, I was so there.

Ohio Light Opera has been summer resident at Wooster College for 32 seasons with a much expanded repertoire and this year brings seven shows to the stage at Freedlander Theatre from June 19 through Aug. 7.       The 2010 season opens with Alexander Borodin’s “Kismet,” from 1953 (”A Stranger in Paradise,” “Baubles, Bangles, and Beads”), followed by Sondheim/Styne’s “Gypsy,” an evergreen based loosely on the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

Century-old Viennese operetta, Franz Lehár’s “The Count of Luxembourg” is next, filled with waltzes, marches, and polkas.         This year’s two Gilbert & Sullivan lesser known gems, ”Iolanthe,” a little visit to Parliament’s House of Lords and fairy land, and “Patience,”which bats Oscar Wilde around (several others, too) as it lampoons the ‘aesthetic movement.’         Also on the summer bill: Emmerich Kálmán’s “The Gypsy Princess” and John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan.”         The light operas are presented in rotating rep. Single tickets $41-$45, call and ask about packages and such. Call 1-330-263-2345 or visit online at www.OhioLightOpera.org.                      

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