To Mail Us: Manatee Opera Guild, 61 N. Pineapple Ave,. Sarasota, FL 34236
November 22: 10 AM - Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci
Please note change of venue!
This multi-media talk will be presented by Martha Collins, the Sarasota Opera Stage Director. Ms. Collins is a former opera singer and is a dynamic speaker.
1700 21st Avenue West in Bradenton. Parking is available along 18th Street West and in the adjacent parking lot.
December 13, 2024 Note: (not 3rd Friday) Barber of Seville
Rossini's Barber of Seville is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe". After two hundred years, it remains a popular work.
January 17, 2025 - Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro by W.A. Mozart
Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro is a commedia per musica (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. The opera's libretto is based on the 1784 stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro"). It tells how the servants Figaro and Susanna succeed in getting married, foiling the efforts of their philandering employer Count Almaviva to seduce Susanna and teaching him a lesson in fidelity. .
February 21, 2025 Stiffelio
It's often said that there are two subjects best avoided in polite company: politics and religion. Giuseppe Verdi may have known that better than anyone.
Today, we don't often think of opera as a source of controversy. But in Verdi's time, especially in Italy, operas were like today's movies — big budget, lavish