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I serve as the conductor for Emerald City Opera, a six-year-old summer opera festival in the community of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. We bring singers and musicians from the rosters of major opera houses and orchestras to mount a production in this wonderful community each August. There is great buy-in and ongoing enthusiasm in Steamboat for what had been until six years ago an art form that was completely absent there. What success we have we attribute to our offering (so far) of great, repertoire operas, and to good theatrical exploitation of the intimacy in the small auditorium that serves as our venue.
Opera in a community like Steamboat Springs is the opposite of fancy or elitist. If you want to find the true elite, take a look at who sits in the luxury boxes at major league baseball or the NFL, or in the best seats at a big-name rock concert. There is where you will find your elite.

Adam Flatt
Newport

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