TEMPLE – The Temple Stream Theater wil present internationally renowned Maine resident Julie Goell in “Carmen: The Mopera” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 7.

In “Carmen: The Mopera,” the bathroom matron of the Royal Opera takes the stage, creating a zany new version of Bizet’s “Carmen,” using mops, brooms and an old double bass.

It is the mop of the cleaning woman that gives the name to Goell’s new theater idiom, “mopera.”

“Carmen: The Mopera,” directed and co-written by Mark Ross, artistic director of Diorama Arts Center, London, is an uplifting romp through the sacred cows of opera.

Goell is a musician and performance artist who combines physical comedy with her mezzo soprano voice. She grew up in Rome, where she studied with the masters of lyric opera and commedia dell’arte.

“Goell is a practitioner of an ageless style of clowning that uses slapstick, crude puppetry, opera bouffe, mimicry and several cleaning carts full of objects to loud and ludicrous extremes,” wrote the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Goell teaches summer workshops in eccentric performance and commedia dell’arte at the Celebration Barn in Paris. She plays bass with the Casco Bay Tummlers which performs regularly at as part of the Lovell Performing Arts Series and at Deertrees Theatre in Harrison.

The Temple Stream Theater has a wood-fired oven, and pizza can be purchased prior to the show.

The theater is located on the Intervale Road. For more information, call 778 2513.