Sforzini on the Morning Blend
Maestro Sforzini and Kelly Butler appear on Morning Blend with a preview of The Magic Flute. Click here to see.
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Maestro Sforzini and Kelly Butler appear on Morning Blend with a preview of The Magic Flute. Click here to see.
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Voices of Spring Waltz, Johann Strauss Jr., performed by the Tampa Bay Symphony, November 7, 2017, at the Palladium Theater in St. Petersburg, FL.
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St. Petersburg Opera Company is delighted to announce the first ever DVD recording of the Carlisle Floyd opera Susannah, with Maestro Mark Sforzini and starring Susan Hellman Spatafora, Stefanie Izzo and Aleksandra Ritums. Filmed in 2014 at the Palladium Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida, the DVD includes bonus materials including an interview with composer Carlisle
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From Creative Pinellas: Maestro Mark Sforzini dispels notions of opera being too stuffy or boring. The affable conductor, composer and director of the St. Petersburg Opera hosts amusingly informative events that de-snobify the genre. His Evenings and Mornings with the Maestro and the cheeky Opera Therapy series offer explanations, conversations and mini-performances that shed light
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Broadway World‘s Peter Nason reviews: I am in the camp that believes that SOUTH PACIFIC is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest work. Even though it won the Pulitzer Prize and is the only musical to garner the Tony Award for all four acting categories, the show still sometimes seems overshadowed by other R & H classics:
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St. Pete Times‘s Andrew Meacham writes: The St. Petersburg Opera Company again closes its season with a musical, this time running two weeks. The extra week for South Pacific anticipates healthy crowds at the Palladium, but also does justice to a serious production. The show allowed me to indulge long-standing curiosities about the acting potential of
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St. Pete Times reviews: A fount of incomparable music — unpredictable, irreverent and playful, including a couple of quartets by the romantic leads that balance like opposite sides of an algebraic equation. This story … also illustrates the composer’s saucy sense of humor, as does the music itself throughout the three acts. Read the rest
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St. Pete Times‘ Andrew Meachum writes: Daisy Buchanan — you’ve heard of her — is an irrepressible teen. She is drawn to Jay Gatsby — you’ve heard of him — an enigmatic, though problematic, wealthy older man. Sforzini labored over Daisy, his operatic prequel to The Great Gatsby, for more than a year. It was
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Creative Collaborations: Music by Russell Andrade and Mark Sforzini Thursday, February 18, 2016, 7:30pm Preis Hall at Opera Central 2145 First Avenue South, St. Peterburg Mun-Tzung Wong and Mark Sforzini, piano John Upton, oboe Fred Gratta, cello Jeffrey Smich, violin Mark Sforzini and Maurizio Venturini, bassoon Michelle Seipel, soprano Kara Cornell, mezzo-soprano Russell Andrade, tenor
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