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Summer arts preview – Metro US

Summer arts preview

July 28 through Aug. 1

Tsai Performance Center

685 Comm. Ave., Boston

MBTA: Green Line to B.U. East

$30-50, 617-227-044

www.bostonmidsummeropera.org

An unusual double feature: First up is “Trouble in Tahiti,” a bleak one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein depicting a miserable married couple in socially constricted 1950s suburbia. But if it depresses you, don’t worry — the second half is “Bon Appetit!”, a bizarrely humorous opera-tization of a Julia Child episode. The moral: Forget love, eat chocolate!