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Hotel Fables will feature, clockwise from upper left, Allison Waggener, Allison Lindsay, Jacob Boergesson, and John Johmann, along with Madison Lyric Stage’s Marc Deaton. Photo courtesy of Madison Lyric Stage

Madison Lyric Stage will present tenor Marc Deaton in a provocative original performance piece entitled Hotel Fables: Episodes in a Life, which will explore, through music and drama, the complexities, struggles, and humor of human relationships. The setting is a single room of a hotel in a nameless city anywhere in the world, where every guest who comes to stay reveals a unique set of circumstances.

Performance dates are Friday, Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 17 at 4 p.m. Performances are at the Deacon John Grave House, 581 Boston Post Road on Academy Street, Madison.

The program features scenes from Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd and The Rape of Lucretia; Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila; Puccini’s Manon Lescaut; Samuel Beckett’s Play; Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser; Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Beethoven’s Fidelio, and Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt.

“I wanted to present an intimate evening of music performing some of my favorite pieces, but I wasn’t interested in just standing up and singing arias,” said Deaton, artistic director of Madison Lyric Stage. “I spent a lot of my early career in strange hotel rooms around the world, and I started thinking about how you can become reflective when you’re by yourself in an unexpected environment. So, I decided to create an evening with this compelling theme—what might happen over the course of a life in a single hotel room—and I invited some of my favorite performers to accompany me on this musical journey.”

Deaton will be joined by six singing actors: Jacob Boergesson, Rebecca Ellis, John Johmann, Allison Lindsay, Audra Moricca, and Allison Waggener, along with pianist Kelly Horsted. Deaton conceived the evening and also directs.

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased at madisonlyricstage.org or by calling 203-215-6329.

The 2019 season is supported in part by gifts from Guilford Savings Bank and the Maureen E. and Peter F. Dalton Fund of The Madison Foundation, with support from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.