Opera Tampa:
Lamentations on Beloved Friends
Some of the most beautiful operatic music mourns great losses.
Over the past 25 years, we’ve experienced many great losses
of our own. We would like to take this space to offer our own lament
as a memoriam to all the wonderful people who were great friends
to Opera Tampa and to salute several people we lost this year
who were instrumental to our creation and success.
GENE CROPSEY
JOAN JENNEWEIN
WARREN RODGERS
WALTER SANDERS
DAVID A. STRAZ, JR.
Farewell, you daring, splendid child
You most sacred pride in my heart
Farewell Farewell Farewell
Leb’ wohl, du kühnes, herrliches Kind
Du meines Herzens heiligster Stolz
Leb’ wohl Leb’ wohl Leb’ wohl
Die Walküre by Richard Wagner