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Recent Events:

Opera Circle has concluded its artistic program of the season with a number of exciting events in May 2008, including

  • Meet-the-Artist: Evening with Piotr Beczala

    Opera Circle Directors with tenor Piotr Beczala
    Opera Circle was thrilled to organize a public meeting with world-renowned tenor Piotr Beczala, who sang the lead role Prince in Rusalka by Antonin Dvorak with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall in June 2008. Updates on the career of this outstanding artist will be posted on our site and/or the upcoming newsletter. Left to right: Jacek Sobieski, Dorota Sobieska, Piotr Beczala.
  • Opera Circle Benefit:

    Opera Circle Benefit
    Photo: Elliott Schultz, Trustee, Benefit Coordinator; in the back: Dorota Sobieska and Jacek Sobieski, Directors of Opera Circle
    Evening of Opera Duets and Operatic Buffet
    at Drs. Gross' residence in Shaker Heights
    The evening was a phenomenal success! Thank you:
    • Dr. Francis Gross & Dr. Jane Sembric Gross
    • Northern Ohio Opera League & its President, Mrs. Mary Hamlin
    • Elliott & Ethel Schultz
    • Bill & Karen Zoltowicz
    • And Everyone Who Attended!
  • Annual Addio Concert with

    • Wanda Sobieska, violin
    • Feroza LaBonne, piano
    • Dorota Sobieska, soprano
    presented in remembrance of Pope John Paul II on his birthday
    at the Polish-American Cultural Center

The major events of the most recent 2007–2008 season included

  • Poetics of Szymanowski
  • Rigoletto
  • Le nozze di Figaro
  • Stabat Mater by Karol Szymanowski and Requiem by W.A. Mozart
  • Concert: Opera Favorites & More
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