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Opera Takes Center Stage
English journalist John Evelyn, after seeing his first opera in 1735, called it "the most extravagant entertainment conceived by the mind of man." A French journalist writing in the same period deemed opera "a fight between composer and librettist which neither wins." Some 273 years later the controversy still lingers: Some people like opera; some do not. Some can take it or leave it. ...more
November 12, 2008
Political Opera Returns to Tarpon Center
Politicians with inflated egos, promises that don't deliver and deals between enemies. These are the themes of an opera by local composer Constantine Grame being perfomred at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center. ...more
October 4, 2008
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