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Asheville Lyric Opera (Asheville)
Fletcher Opera Institute (Winston-Salem)
Greensboro Opera Company (Greensboro)
Opera Carolina (Charlotte)
Opera Company of North Carolina (Raleigh)
Piedmont Opera (Winston-Salem)

Note: 10 other presenters whose offerings involve opera are indexed from the bottom of this page.

Chronological Arrangement of Events Offered by These Presenters

ARTISTS & PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

• Saturday, Thursday, & Sunday, October 18, 23, & 26 - Charlotte
  OperaCarolina
  Program: Gounod: Faust (in French with English titles)
  Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. Thursday @ 7:30 p.m., Saturday @ 8:00 p.m., & Sunday @ 2:00 p.m.
  Season tickets $409-$36; single tickets $125-$20, on sale 7/30. 704/335-1010 or http://www.operacarolina.org/
  Cast includes: James Valenti (Faust), Maureen O'Flynn (Marguerite), & Chester Patton (Méphistophélès), with Bernard Uzan, director

• Friday & Sunday November 7 & 9 - Greensboro
  Greensboro Opera Company
  Program: Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana; & Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
  War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro. 11/7 @ 8p & 11/9 @ 2p. Pre-opera talk 45 minutes prior to each performance - Odeon.
  $. 336/273-9472 or http://www.greensboroopera.org/

• Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, & Saturday, January 24, 25, 29, & 31 - Charlotte
  OperaCarolina
  Program: Rossini: The Barber of Seville (in Italian with English titles)
  Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. Thursday @ 7:30 p.m., Saturday @ 8:00 p.m., & Sunday @ 2:00 p.m.
  $125-$20, on sale 7/30. 704/335-1010 or http://www.operacarolina.org/
  Cast includes Victor Ryan Robertson (Almaviva), Ryan Taylor (Figaro), & Adriana Zabala (Rosina), & Tyrone Patterson, conductor

• Saturday February 14 - Charlotte
  OperaCarolina
  Program: Love Notes (Concert des notes d'amour)
  Dana Auditorium, Queens University, Charlotte. Thursday @ 7:30 p.m., Saturday @ 8:00 p.m., & Sunday @ 2:00 p.m.
  $. 704/335-1010 or http://www.operacarolina.org/
  Cast includes Todd Geer, Angela Renée Simpson, Michael Fabiano, & Kyle Pfortmiller

• Saturday, Sunday, Thursday, & Saturday, March 7, 8, 12, & 14 - Charlotte
  OperaCarolina
  Program: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (in Italian with English titles)
  Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. Thursday @ 7:30 p.m., Saturday @ 8:00 p.m., & Sunday @ 2:00 p.m.
  $125-$20, on sale 7/30. 704/335-1010 or http://www.operacarolina.org/
  Cast includes Kristopher Irmiter (Figaro), Ailyn Pérez (Countess), & Anne-Carolyn Bird (Susanna), with John Hoomes, director

• Thursday, Saturday, & Sunday, April 16, 18, & 19 - Charlotte
  OperaCarolina
  Program: Puccini: Turandot (in Italian with English titles)
  Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Charlotte. Thursday @ 7:30 p.m., Saturday @ 8:00 p.m., & Sunday @ 2:00 p.m.
  $125-$20, on sale 7/30. 704/335-1010 or http://www.operacarolina.org/
  Cast includes Lori Philips (Turandot), Jee Hyun Lim (Liù), Roy Cornelius Smith, & James Meena, conductor

*December 20, 2006: Six Opera Companies Unite To Form Voce Carolina: Directors of five professional opera companies in North Carolina and the A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute... sat in the lobby humming the last aria from practice waiting for the meeting to start. It's not the first time this group — including Asheville Lyric Opera, Greensboro Opera Company, Charlotte's Opera Carolina, The Opera Company of NC in Raleigh and Winston-Salem's Piedmont Opera — has worked together for the greater good of the industry — every year for the past ten years they've convened to discuss repertoire (even Puccini wouldn't want to see Madama Butterfly six times...). But ... there's more on the agenda than just who will be singing what — the NC Opera Consortium working under the name VOCE Carolina ("Voce" is Italian for "voice") plans to launch a first-ever statewide marketing initiative to promote opera as a tourism attraction. (First published by http://allaboutopera.com/.)

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"Voce Carolina"
c/o Asheville Lyric Opera
2 South Pack Square
Asheville, NC 28801

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