Sarasota Opera’s 59th season will mark the return of Giuseppe Verdi to our stage with one of his most famous operas–La traviata. The 2018 Winter Opera Festival will bring you two Sarasota premieres: Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, and Bellini’s Norma. Our lineup will also include one of the most popular operas of all time—Bizet’s Carmen, as well as a hidden gem. Eugen d’Albert’s Tiefland—an opera that is regularly seen in Germany and Austria, but that has only had one U.S. production in the past century. Tiefland’s music and empassioned plot follows in the footsteps of the Italian Verismo tradition.
