2012-2013 SINGLE TICKETS ON SALE ONLINE TODAY!

Single Tickets for the 2012-2013 Festival Season

On Sale Online TODAY

Sarasota, FL – Single tickets go on sale online at www.sarasotaopera.org to the general public Wednesday, August 1^st, 2012 for Sarasota Opera’s 2012-2013 Fall and Winter Festival seasons, the company’s 54^th consecutive season.  Sarasota Opera continues its tradition of assembling casts of international talent to perform a mixture of classic favorites paired with rarely performed works of artistic excellence in the beautiful historic Sarasota Opera House.                  

The fall 2012 season opens with the return of the acclaimed Sarasota Opera production of Verdi’s Rigoletto (Oct. 26 – Nov. 12), last seen in 2008 as the opera chosen to commemorate the re-opening of the newly renovated Sarasota Opera House.  Interspersed between the final two performances of Rigoletto will be the Sarasota Youth Opera world premiere of their fifth commissioned opera Little Nemo in Slumberland (Nov. 10 – 11), music by Daron Hagen and story by J.D. McClatchy. 

Title page of the score of Puccini's Turandot(Ricordi, Milan),
c. 1926 (akg-images)

Opening the 2013 Winter Festival on February 9^th will be Giacomo Puccini’s vocally extravagant Turandot, the largest production ever mounted at Sarasota Opera.  Immediately following will be Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, Verdi’s second opera A King for a Day (the 29^th installment of Sarasota Opera’s ongoing Verdi Cycle) and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men (the third opera presented in the company’s ongoing American Classics Series).  The Winter Festival will close on March 24^th with The Verdi Concert: Celebrating the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Verdi featuring Sarasota Opera soloists, chorus and orchestra conducted by Maestro Victor DeRenzi. 

Additional concerts available for ticket purchase will be the Apprenctice & Studio Artists Concert: Verdi’s Times on March 8, 2013 and the Artists Choice Concert on March 17, 2013.  Also available will be Sarasota Opera’s ongoing lecture series entitled Meet the Artists where patrons are offered an insider’s perspective as Maestro DeRenzi interviews the singers, directors and designers of all 6 of the Sarasota Opera productions. 

Due to the overwhelming popularity of our matinee performances, Sarasota Opera will continue to offer weekday matinees during the fall and winter season for specific performances of Rigoletto, Turandot and The Pearl Fishers.  All matinee performances begin at 1:30pm.  Check www.sarasotaopera.org or call the box office for specific dates. 

And patrons travel from around the world for Sarasota Opera’s “Opera Lovers’ Weekend”!  Perfect for those with a tighter travel schedule, Sarasota Opera offers three consecutive weekends in March where anyone can see all 4 operas in 3 days!  Dates for the 2013 Season are March 8-10, March 15-17, or March 22-24.  Log on to www.sarasotaopera.org for more information. 

Single tickets go on sale in the Box Office on September 4, 2012.  Subscription packages are still available for purchase in four and five show packages through the Box Office as well. 

2012 Fall Season

Rigoletto

Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Based on the play Le Roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Sarasota Opera House

Performances (6):   Oct. 26, 28(m), Nov. 1, 3, 7, 12(m)

Little Nemo in Slumberland  

Sarasota Youth Opera World Premiere

An opera in two acts by Daron Aric Hagen and Libretto by J.D. McClatchy

Based on the comic strips by Winsor McCay

Sung in English with English supertitles  

Sarasota Opera House

Performances (2): Nov. 10 and 11

2013 Winter Festival

Turandot  

Sarasota Opera Premiere

Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Sarasota Opera House

Performances (11):  February 9, 12, 17(m), 20, 23, 28, Mar. 3(m), 10, 15, 19(m), 23

The Pearl Fishers (Les Pěcheurs de perles)

Opera in three acts by Georges Bizet

Libretto by Michel Carré and Eugène Cormon

Sung in French with English supertitles

Sarasota Opera House

Performances (9):  Feb. 16, 19, 21, 24(m), 27, Mar. 1, 8(m), 16(m), 22

A King for a Day (Un giorno di regno)

World Premiere of a New Critical Edition

Opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi

Poetry by Felice Romani

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Sarasota Opera House

Performances (7):  Mar. 2, 5, 7, 10(m), 13, 16, 24(m)

Of Mice and Men  

Sarasota Opera Premiere

Opera in three acts

Music and libretto by Carlisle Floyd after the novel and play of the same name by John Steinbeck

Sung in English with English supertitles

Performances (6):  Mar. 9, 12, 14, 17(m), 20, 23(m)