Lecture Series: Opera Yesterda

Company
Pinellas Opera League

Program
“Adventures in Opera and Musical Theater" Lecture Series sponsored by the Pinellas Opera League, which seeks to educate and promote an appreciation of opera in the Tampa Bay area. There will be live performances by opera singers & dancers, skits, film excerpts, videos, and of course – music!

Internationally acclaimed Stage Director, Tito Capobianco will be the guest presenter with Opera: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow on Wednesday, November 18 at 2 pm in the Murray Studio Theater at Ruth Eckerd Hall. Capobianco, is known for his ingenious and versatile treatment of repertory classics, from Baroque to Romantic, verismo, contemporary and his innovative updated settings of the operas starting in 1957 with a modernistic version of Puccini’s Tosca. In addition to his unparalleled and distinctive success with his 24 opera productions at the Lincoln Center in New York City, Capobianco has staged more than 250 productions in Europe, Australia and the American continent for major opera houses, such as Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, San Francisco, Sidney and the Las Palmas Festival in Spain.

Capobianco’s staging of American and world premieres such as Ginastera’s Don Rodrigo and Bomarzo, Menotti’s La Loca, Giannini’s Servant of Two Masters plus numerous new productions which have been hailed as landmarks in opera history, have had a strong influence in the development of opera in the United States.

Wednesdays, 2:00PM to 3:30PM
Murray Studio Theater

Individual Tickets: $5 per lecture
Order a Package by October 28th and Save!! Buy all six lectures for only $25. Please call the Ticket Office at (727) 791-7060 to order a package.