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Category Archives: Events

Opera is for Everyone

Posted on November 13, 2017 by editor Posted in At the OC, Events, Operas, SPO News, St. Pete Opera

by Susie Hellman Spatafora (Assoc. Director of Development at St. Pete Opera and lover of opera education for kids!)

Everyone here at Opera Central is super excited about our opera for children, Pinocchio! Sunny Spaces, our set designer and … Read the rest

Cocktails with the Maestro

Posted on November 13, 2017 by editor Posted in Events, Mark Sforzini, SPO News, St. Pete Opera
Join the fun at our inaugural Cocktails with the Maestro in vibrant downtown St. Petersburg.  Gather your friends and join us after work or school to enjoy a great venue and opera antics…a perfect duo. Maestro Mark Sforzini will lead
… Read the rest

‘Faust’ a Hit!

Posted on October 23, 2017 by editor Posted in Events, Operas, Reviews, SPO News, St. Pete Opera, Tickets

Seasoned cast scores an extra-base hit for St. Petersburg Opera with ‘Faust’ says Andrew Meacham, Times Performing Arts Critic:

Charles Gounod’s Faust sets the table early. The world-weary philosopher immortalized in a dramatic poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is … Read the rest

Meet me at the opera. You have your ticket, right?

Posted on October 19, 2017 by editor Posted in Events, Operas, SPO News, St. Pete Opera
Gounod’s romantic, French grand opera Faust presents us with glorious melodies and sumptuous orchestrations for this dark tale. Unhappy with life, Faust yearns for a return to his youth; makes a pact with the Devil and draws a host of … Read the rest

Samuel Hall sings Nessun Dorma

Posted on August 29, 2017 by editor Posted in Artists, Events, Operas, SPO News, St. Pete Opera

St. Petersburg Opera Company’s Samuel Hall sings Nessun dorma at the Palladium Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida  on December 18, 2016 with Maestro Mark Sforizini directing the St. Petersburg Opera Orchestra and Chorus in the annual Seasonal Sparkle celebration of … Read the rest

Creative Collaborations 2017

Posted on April 7, 2017 by editor Posted in Artists, At the OC, Events, St. Pete Opera

Creative Collaborations 2017 Program Notes

Co-Sponsored by Belinda Dumont & William Ward

Rhapsody for Bassoon and Marimba – World Premiere
by Mark Sforzini

Performed by John Shaw (marimba) and Mark Sforzini (bassoon).

meiuqeR: A Tragedy in Reverse – World Premiere… Read the rest

‘Abduction from the Seraglio’ shows off genius

Posted on March 18, 2016 by editor Posted in Events, Operas, Reviews, SPO News

St. Pete Times reviews: A nearly full house turned out on Friday for the St. Petersburg Opera’s first production of 2016, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio.

As with all things Palladium, the former church with … Read the rest

Photos from Abduction

Posted on March 18, 2016 by editor Posted in Events, Operas


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Does Father know best? Dying from tuberculosis, the courtesan Violetta Valery grasps at one last chance for love when she meets the country boy Alfredo. Their romantic idyll is interrupted by his status conscious father[...]
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Does Father know best? Dying from tuberculosis, the courtesan Violetta Valery grasps at one last chance for love when she meets the country boy Alfredo. Their romantic idyll is interrupted by his status conscious father[...]
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La Traviata @ The Palladium | Saint Petersburg | Florida | United States
Does Father know best? Dying from tuberculosis, the courtesan Violetta Valery grasps at one last chance for love when she meets the country boy Alfredo. Their romantic idyll is interrupted by his status conscious father[...]
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