2015 brings two major milestones for peerless American baritone Sherrill Milnes, who celebrates his 80th birthday on January 10 and the 50th anniversary of his Metropolitan Opera debut on December 22, 2015.
Opera Tampa will present Milnes with the Anton Coppola Excellence in the Arts Award on February 7, and he will be back in New York City on February 13 for “A Winter’s Opera Night,” a special fundraising gala at the Harmonie Club to honor Milnes at 80 and benefit his acclaimed Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs — VOICExperience and the Savannah VOICE Festival — through which he continues to make an invaluable contribution to opera, actively and passionately training young singers and developing new audiences for the vocal arts.
February also marks the 2015 VOICExperience workshop in New York, “Opera as Drama.” The weeklong intensive, beginning February 8, concludes on February 14 with a public concert at the National Opera Center’s Audition Hall, “Opera as Drama: A Valentine Showcase.”
On February 25, Opera America presents “Sherrill Milnes@80” at the National Opera Center, where the baritone will share stories and video clips from his long and illustrious career in an intimate conversation with Opera America President/CEO Marc A. Scorca.
