The Mobile Symphony Orchestra returns to full strength for its season-opening “Celebrate!” concerts at the Saenger Theatre, while the University of South Alabama’s Glass Arts program holds its second annual pumpkin sale and a Mobile art-and-fashion showcase brings together dozens of local creatives downtown.
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Mobile arts calendar packs in piano contest milestone, historian’s lecture and opera scholarships
A 50th-anniversary piano competition, a University of Mobile lecture by historian Wayne Flynt marking Alabama’s bicentennial, and newly announced winners of Mobile Opera’s Madame Rose Scholarship Competition highlight a busy week for the Mobile arts scene.
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Mobile Symphony Marks 20th Season with Mammoth Mahler Performance, While Opera and Exploreum Round Out Spring Arts Calendar
The Mobile Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 20th season with a large-scale performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at the Saenger Theatre, while Mobile Opera stages La Boheme and the Gulf Coast Exploreum debuts a prehistoric creatures exhibit.
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USA Voice Students Bring Smetana’s Comic Opera “The Bartered Bride” to Laidlaw Recital Hall
University of South Alabama voice students are taking the stage this month for a production of “The Bartered Bride,” the beloved comic opera by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, at Laidlaw Recital Hall on the USA campus. Smetana wrote the opera in the 1860s, weaving together a tangled comic tale of…