UA Opera Theater presents its fall production of "The Crucible," an opera by Robert Ward. Two performances will be offered: Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 3 p.m.

Based on the play by Arthur Miller about the 1692 Salem witch trials, the opera is sung in English and features outstanding graduate students as the lead roles. This work surely is one of the outstanding American operas written during the last century. Stage direction is under UA Opera Theater director Charles Roe, and music director Thomas Cockrell conducts the Arizona Symphony Orchestra.