Today’s guest on the Arts Alive! podcast is Mark Sforzini, the founder and general director of St. Petersburg Opera Company. The Auburn, Alabama native is also...
St. Petersburg Opera Company begins Season 18 this weekend with a production of Alcina, a 1735 Italian opera by baroque composer George Frideric Handel. Typical of...
St. Petersburg Opera Company is in the middle of its 17th season, going great guns with founder and artistic director Mark Sforzini still very much in...
Along with its intense, dramatic score and soaring arias, Puccini’s Tosca is one of opera’s most well-known thrillers, with a multi-layered plot containing as much lust,...
In all of opera, arguably the best-known aria of all is “Vesti la giubba,” from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Between Caruso, Pavarotti and Crazy Joe Davola on Seinfeld,...
Welcome to the Catalyst’s Community Voices platform. We’ve curated community leaders and thinkers from all parts of our great city to speak on issues that affect...
During Thursday’s panel discussion on the arts and the pandemic, moderator Paul Wilborn read an email that had come in from a viewer: “Livestreams by...
When last we checked in with Tyler Putnam and Sarah Nordin, on a late-April edition of the Catalyst Sessions video interview series, the husband and wife...
The bay area’s close-knit opera community was shocked to learn that tenor Samuel Hall died Saturday afternoon from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in his...
Maestro Mark Sforzini and four singers from the St. Petersburg Opera Company were at the Lake Seminole Square community Thursday morning for a private pop-up concert....
