Sun 2/12 @ 6PM
The Cleveland Opera & Cleveland Women’s Orchestra are offering a Valentine’s gift for those who love opera.
Dubbed “Opera Valentine: A Romantic Twilight Concert,” it will feature familiar and much-loved arias and tunes — presumably their love songs — by such noted composers of opera, operetta and musicals as Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donietti, Pietro Mascagni, Franz Lehar, and the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
The featured performers includes soprano Dorota Sobieska (who is also the Cleveland Opera’s co-founder/executive director and a longtime promoter of opera in Cleveland), tenor Brian Skoog and bass Jonathan Stuckey (pictured), with the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra conducted by Jungho Kim.
There’ll be coffee and refreshments at 5:15pm, prior to the 6pm start of the one-hour concert, taking place at the First Baptist Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights. It’s free, but donations will be gladly accepted. And you can reserve a seat for a donation of $35. Go to theclevelandopera.org/valentine.