REASONS TO CELEBRATE:
OPERA TAMPA REACHES
MILESTONE 25TH ANNIVERSARY
This season marks the silver anniversary
of the Tampa Bay area’s grand opera company.
For those of us who have been with Opera Tampa from
the inception, it’s hard to believe 25 years have passed
since that inaugural production of Madama Butter y.
A 25th anniversary means a silver celebration, and if
there’s any art form that is both precious and metal,
it’s opera.
“Opera is about blood and guts,” says Opera Tampa
General Director and Straz President Judy Lisi. “That’s
why kids get it so easily and really enjoy it when the
stories are explained in the right ways. But it’s also
blood and guts set to the most glorious music you’ve
ever heard.”
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