Sarasota Opera Awarded $20,000 for Youth Opera World Premiere
Coconut Telegraph
SRQ DAILY
SATURDAY JUL 8, 2017 |
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects across the country in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2017. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $20,000 to the Sarasota Opera in support of the commissioning and world premiere of Rootabaga Country, a new opera by composer Rachel J. Peters which will mark the company’s 6th world premiere. The winning work is an adaptation of selections from Carl Sandburg’s 1922 book Rootabaga Stories which is a collection of whimsical short stories created out of Sandburg’s desire to invent “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. The NEA received 1,728 Art Works applications and will make 1,029 grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000.
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