Rose Valley Chorus & Orchestra

Argentina’s controversial First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece. As an illegitimate fifteen year old, Eva escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at twenty-two, the president’s mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven, and dead at thirty-three. Eva Peron, “saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy, and mistrusted by the military,” was destined to leave a fascinating political legacy unique to the twentieth century. Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop, and jazz influences—featuring Don’t Cry for Me Argentina—Evita creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.