A pocket-scaled pairing of 'L'histoire du soldat' and 'Gianni Schicchi'

It's a fallacy to think that community theater or community opera are necessarily altogether different from their larger and more polished brethren. Take the InSeries, which has been presenting professional, small-scale music theater of various forms for 30 seasons. Its latest double bill, which runs at the Gala Hispanic Theatre through June, is a pocket-scaled pairing of Stravinsky's "L'histoire du soldat" (in the version for three instruments: violin, clarinet and piano) and Puccini's "Gianni ...