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From:  "lestaylor2003 <LesTaylor@a...
Date:  Wed Feb 5, 2003  5:20 pm
Subject:  Re: Amateur opera companies in major cities

Dear Ingo et al,
That's quite a good question. It's different in large urban areas
than other places here. It is also apt to be a little different on a
state-by-state basis. Atlanta, Georgia for example, is a large urban
area with a professional opera company and other semi-professional to
amateur groups that perform opera and light opera. Virtually every
college and university that has a decent voice program will have an
opera workshop that does one or two productions per year. Smaller
city-states :-) have fewer choices, depending primarily on size and
local culture.

The city in which I live, Savannah, has touring opera companies visit
fairly regularly, but no dedicated company of its own. Last year, we
had visits from Russian, English (from London) and two American opera
companies. Our population in Savannah is a mere 250,000 or so, yet we
have a fairly rich culture with two universities and the Savannah
College of Art and Design (aka SCAD) at hand. SCAD is generally
acknowledged to be the best art school in the country by the way. We
have a thriving theatre community comprised of several companies that
do Musical Theatre and occasionally some G&S.

La Boheme is currently running on Broadway.
Regards,
Les





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