The City’s Department of Parks,
Recreation and Community Facilities, in cooperation with the Virginia Opera and
Wells Fargo, will host Opera in the Park, as part of the 58th annual
Festival of Arts at Dogwood Dell. The concert will be held on Saturday, August
30 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The concert will feature performers from the Virginia Opera
and accompanied by the Richmond Symphony conducted by Adam Turner. Classical
pieces by Rossini, Verdi, and Mozart will be featured along with more
contemporary pieces by Steven Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. A complete
program can be found at www.vaopera.org .
This is the second year that Opera in the Park has been a
part of the City of Richmond’s Festival of the Arts. Attendance for the 2013
event exceeded 2,000 residents and visitors. For more information, please call
(804) 646-1031.
