Six popular Sarasota Opera past productions will be broadcast on Classical WSMR radio beginning Saturday, October 23^rdat 1pm Eastern Time: Verdi’s Otello (2012), D’Albert’s Tiefland (2018) on October 30^th, Puccini’s La bohème (2020) on November 6^th, Montemezzi’s The Love of Three Kings (L’amore dei tre rei) (2017) on November 13^th, Verdi’s Rigoletto (2019) on November 20^th, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel (2015) on November 27^th. The broadcasts will be hosted by WSMR Music Director and Host Russell Gant and introduced by Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi and General Director Richard Russell. Listeners can tune-in to Classical WSMR at 89.1 and 103.9 on the radio, listen online at WSMR.org, or through the WUSF Public Media app.

Sarasota Opera’s Fall Season on stage begins on Friday, October 29 with Gioachino Rossini’s The Silken Ladder (La scala di seta), a 90-minute romantic comedy, with six performances through November 13, 2021. For more information, visit SarasotaOpera.org, contact the Sarasota Opera Box Office at (941) 328-1300, or visit in person at 61 N. Pineapple Avenue, Sarasota.