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LECTURE SERIES "ADVENTURES IN OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATER"

 The Marcia P. Hoffman Performing Arts Institute is proud to invite you to “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, and film excerpts from DVDs, videos, and music from CDs, on Wednesday, from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. There is no charge for parking.

The series will be held at the Murray Studio Theater, located at 1111 McMullen Booth Road, Clearwater, Florida. Individual tickets are $5.00 per lecture, or a package of six lectures for $25.00.
Call the Ruth Eckerd ticket box office for tickets at 727-791-7400 or tickets may be purchased at the door.

 

April 28, 2010-"ACTING IN OPERA", NOT JUST PARK AND BARK, Lecturer, Bob Simon, Opera Tampa

Oct. 27, 2010-"Political Opera" (State of Affairs)-Lecturer-Bob Simon-Director of Education Sarasota Opera

Nov 17, 2010-"Madness in Opera" (Murder and Mayhem, Potions)-Bill Weiss Pinellas Opera Board Member

Jan. 20,  2011-"Chineese Opera" (Dragons Lanterns and Fireworks-Bill Weiss-Pinellas Opera Board Member

Feb.23,  2011-"Celebrating Black Opera Singers" (in honor of Black History  Month)-Middy Larson Pinellas Opera Board Member

March 23, 2011-"Opera From the British Isles" (Handel to Britten)-Mark Sforzini) Director St. Pete Opera

April 27, 2011-"Wagner's Ring Cycle" (Nordic Family Values)-Constintine Grame Opera Director Tarpon Springs Cultural Center



THE PINELLAS OPERA LEAGUE PRESENTS "OPERA ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON"

 The Pinellas Opera League in partnership with the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art will be showing DVDs at 1:30 P.M., every second Sunday of the month, in the video center of the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art at the campus of the St. Petersburg College, 600 Klosterman Road, Tarpon Springs, Florida. It is FREE.


Sun. May 9.......       OTHELLO – Giuseppe Verdi’s powerful drama of intrigue and betrayal, filmed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli and Justino Diaz. 

Sun. June 13......    The Three Tenors- Carreras, Domingo and Pavaroti with Zubin Mehta.
 


   THE PINELLAS OPERA LEAGUE PRESENTS "DANCE ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON"

 The Pinellas Opera League in partnership with the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art will be showing DVDs at 1:30 P.M., see dates below, in the video center of the Leepa Rattner Museum of Art at the campus of the St. Petersburg College, 600 Klosterman Road, Tarpon Springs, Florida. It is FREE.


Sat. May 1.....    THE MERRY WIDOW – Music by Franz Lehar, Ballet in 3 acts, performed by The National Ballet of Canada

Sat. June 5.....   La Fille Mal Garde (The Wayward Daughter). Music F. Herold. Royal Ballet.


METROPOLITAN OPERA LIVE HD BROADCASTS 2010 SCHEDULE

MAY 1................."ARMIDA"-RICCARDO FRIZZA, RENEE FLEMING