Sarasota Opera Receives $50,000 Arts Appreciation Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation
Coconut Telegraph
SRQ DAILY
SATURDAY NOV 24, 2018 |
Sarasota Opera has been awarded a $50,000 Arts Appreciation Grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation. The grant offers unrestricted funding to area arts organizations in support of their artistic mission. This year’s Arts Appreciation Grant will help support Sarasota Opera’s 2018/2019 Season, which marks the company’s 60th year of presenting world-class opera on the Southwest Florida Gulf Coast.
“We are most appreciative of the Gulf Coast Community Foundation for their long-standing support of Sarasota Opera,” says Executive Director Richard Russell. “This grant will be used for production costs for our internationally recognized Opera Festival.”
Sarasota Opera is committed to producing opera as a living art form: offering a stage for American-trained artists, producing high-caliber training programs, owning, maintaining, and operating the Opera House as a year-round facility, and promoting and increasing public knowledge and appreciation of opera. In addition to striving for artistic excellence, Sarasota Opera directs itself toward becoming accessible to all of the greater community. Coordinated artistic, educational, informational, and social outreach programs help accomplish this.
“We appreciate the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s support which recognizes the impact that our opera has on all those in our community,” concludes Maestro Victor DeRenzi.
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