Opera Omaha welcOmes rOger weitz “One way to get the word out and to get some extra buy-in is by collaborating. Future productions are going to have a highly collaborative nature to them. If we can get other groups involved and get their patrons to give opera a chance, then we can open up doors. We just need people to give it a chance.”
TOM AND NANCY HICKS WITH CINDY AND MOGENS BAY
Opera Omaha's 54th season kicked off with This is Opera! and Hansel & Gretel and continues Feb. 17-19 with The Marriage Contract and April 13 and 15 with The Mikado. He expects future seasons to represent similar range. Meanwhile, he champions opera as "the best deal in town," saying. "For the price of one ticket you get a night at the symphony, the theater, the art gallery.” Opera, too, he said, is great literature and design. Where else, he asks, can you get so much? He didn’t expect the stars would align to bring him home to run Opera Omaha but he’s glad it happened, especially as he and his wife Kate have just started a family. ROGER WEITZ AND MIKE YANNEY
“I’m thrilled.”
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GREAT WAY TO INTRODUCE KIDS INTO THE ARTS. ~ ROGER WEITZ
ANNETTE AND PAUL SMITH WITH MARTHA AND DAVID SLOSBURG
SHELIA MCNEILL, ANDY HOLLAND, GAIL YANNEY AND ANNE THORNE
BETIANA AND TODD SIMON
DAVE AND SUE MORRIS WITH DOUG AND KAREN RILEY