Arizona Opera has added a fifth opera to its 2013-14 Tucson season.
The company, which mounts performances in Tucson and Phoenix, will perform Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” April 26 and 27 at Tucson Music Hall.
When former General Director Scott Altman announced Arizona Opera’s season in January, “Don Pasquale” was not on Tucson’s lineup. Instead, Altman told season ticketholders and patrons that the company would hold nine performances of the opera in the black box theater of the new Arizona Opera Center in Phoenix, which opened this spring. The company said it would offer shuttle bus service to Tucsonans.
Altman resigned from the company in April on the eve of the season finale of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.”
Interim General Director Ryan Taylor said the Tucson “Don Pasquale” was added after an anonymous Tucson donor pledged $25,000 of the $50,000 needed to bring the production to Tucson. Other Tucson donors have given most of the remaining money, he said.
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“We’re just a few thousand dollars away from goal and I have every confidence we will reach it,” Taylor said.
Adding the fifth opera to Tucson’s season is part of Taylor’s and the company’s focus on recommitting to Tucson, where Arizona Opera was founded in 1971.
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