Few evenings at the opera start with the orchestra tuning its instruments to the sound of a goose being strangled. 'Monty Python’s Passion' is playing in April. The uniquely British sense of humor ...

With their proven track record, Oppenheim, Sharon, and their cohorts will do the British comics justice and leave their Opera House patrons whistling a tune or two, smiling, or possibly laughing.

What do a philharmonic orchestra in white dinner jackets and black ties, a 40-piece choir, four opera singers, fireworks, a 32-piece bagpipe band, a narrator, some sheep and a leaf blower add up to?

Andrew Ceglio, who has bounced back and forth from the Peninsula and Los Angeles for years, as an actor, director, choreographer, producer and voice-over actor, is taking on a new challenge: Directing ...