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SARASOTA
Price Per Person:
Based on double occupancy:
$1,785.00*
Single Supplement:
$450
*The increase in our cost this year reflects the premium
price of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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THE SARASOTA
OPERA
March 6 - March 9, 2003
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innovative Sarasota Opera has emerged
in recent years as one of our most imaginative and successful
regional companies. This season will mark the company’s
nineteenth anniversary in the Mediterranean Revival
Opera House, an intimate and charming venue listed
in our National Historic Registry as a Florida landmark. |
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Marie Selbye
Botanical Gardens |
For the past several years, our repeat travelers have recognized
the high quality of the Sarasota Opera and continue to choose
March as the ideal time to escape from winter. For 2003, our
most important decision is to upgrade our accommodations to
the deluxe Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Sarasota’s
newest and most glamorous property.
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The
Sarasota Opera’s outstanding productions and unusual
repertory are due to the leadership of Artistic Director
Victor DeRenzi. We have been honored
on several recent occasions by Mr. DeRenzi joining our
final dinner with his estute personal comments about his
operatic season. The acoustically perfect opera house
contains only l,000 seats, and most evenings are completely
booked months in advance |
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The
Ritz-Carlton |
Following the pattern of the last few years, our 2003 visit
will again include all four of the operatic evenings.
This year’s repertoire includes the balanced variety of
major works by Giuseppe Verdi, Georges Bizet, Johann Strauss
and Italo Montemezzi. There are very few companies in this country
where opera aficionados can indulge in the luxury of four different
works of such high quality on four successive days.
In order of historical development,
the earliest work will be Georges Bizet’s exotic romance
The Pearl Fishers, in a revival of the enormously
popular 2000 production. Second will be a new production of
Verdi’s riveting Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth,
in the 1865 revised version which includes some of the most
cogent scenes in all of Verdi.
Third,
Johann Strauss’ Viennese operetta Die Fledermaus
also merits a sparkling new production to capture the
exuberance of “the greatest operetta ever written”
(Sarasota Opera). Finally, yet another new production
will be devoted to a rarity of 20th century Italian verismo
– Italo Montemezzi’s brooding melodrama The
Love of Three Kings. (‘Fledermaus’
will be performed in English. The other three operas will
be sung in the original language with simultaneous English
surtitles.)
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