Good News Letter
GOOD NEWS LETTER Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony May, 2018 16311 Highway 62 West Don Dagenais, Editor Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632 Two Comedies Opera in the Ozarks Archives Featured are Dedicated at the in OIO’s University of Arkansas The Opera in the Ozarks Archives at the University of Arkansas were formally 68th Season dedicated on February 28 and March 1, 2018, at several special events held at Opera in the Ozarks will open its 68th the University of Arkansas. The archives consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, year of performances on Friday, June 20 season programs, over 6,900 photographs and other image formats, over 400 audiovisual recordings, and other materials that document the stories and with Johann Strauss Jr.’s classic comic performances of the thousands of young artists and staff members who have operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat). been a part of Opera in the Ozarks throughout the previous 67 years of its history. The season will continue on Saturday, The Archives were compiled thanks to the University of Arkansas Libraries June 21 with the opening of Il Barbieri Special Collections Department. The librarian and archivist who spearheaded the di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). The project, Janet Parsch, remarked that the majority of her opera viewing has been third production of the season, Douglas during the Opera in the Ozarks summer seasons in Moore’s historic drama The Ballad of Eureka Springs. Further informa- Baby Doe, opens in Tuesday, June 26. “Processing the Opera in the Ozarks collection, tion about the The three operas are performed in serving as its repository, and making it available to the general public, to me, is a wonderful example Opera in the repertory concluding on Friday, July 20.
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