POCATELLO — Trinity Episcopal Church will host a one-hour dress rehearsal of Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera, “The Old Maid and the Thief.” It will be performed by students from Idaho State University’s Opera Workshop. This event will be held 5 p.m. Nov. 7 at 248 N. Arthur Ave. in Pocatello.

The opera will be led by Diana Livingston Friedley, professor of music and associate chair of the ISU Music Department. This project is funded in part by ISU’s Cultural Events Committee and the ISU Department of Music’s piano preparatory program.

A small U.S. town in the 1930s is the setting for the story of two older women who fall in love with the same man and will do anything to keep him close.

At 7 p.m. after the opera, there will be a sung Compline, which is a part of Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox traditions, as well as other Christian liturgical traditions. It serves as a quiet and meditative ending of the day. In monastic traditions, it begins the nighttime period of silence and reflection. The service includes confession, readings from scripture, and traditional prayers, either spoken or sung. This version is sung a capella by two to three members of the Trinity Choir.