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The 2025 Summer Festival was a full one! Fourteen events included both ticketed and free performances.
Our Young Artists were busy singing around the Finger Lakes Region in free outreach events, while also performing a fully staged opera The Anonymous Lover by Joseph Bologne and an opera highlights concert, Out Loud at ARTISANworks.
Community events included Juneteenth at Mt Olivet Baptist Church and Opera & Ale at Three Heads Brewing.
The final event of the season was an all star cast production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Rochester came out to support their own Jazmine Saunders and Joshua Conyers.
THANK YOU 2025 DONORS
Finger Lakes Opera is grateful to its donors. The listing below represents gifts received between
January 1, 2025 to present.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
FRIEND
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Danielle Abramson
Clifford Ameduri
Terry Badger
Doug Baldwin and Marion Blankopf
Cindy Battisti
Linda B. Bohrer
Charlotte and Bill Brummett
Larry Campbell
Nicholas Cantiello
John Casella
Kurt and Barb Christiansen
Kathleen Cloonan
Anne C. Coon and Craig J. Zicari
Shirley and Gary Cox
Keith Egnor
Constance Fee
David Friedman
Rebecca Fuss
Connie Gates and Jennifer Lloyd
Joy Goodman
David and Deborah Gordon
Darcy Graham
Gwen and Jess Green
Ruth Henry
Kathy Hudson
Nancy Ives
Josephine Kenyon
Carolyn Kourovsky
Isadora D. Kunitz
Jennifer Leonard and David Cay Johnston
Denise Lippa
Sherry Marche’
Kasi L. Krenzer Marshall
Marion M. Mench
Daniel Meyer
Margaret Merli
Sanford and Jill Miller
Jeanne Morey
Paul and Helga Morgan
Steven Naimoli
Kerry Nolan
Dolores F. Parlato
Catherine Pollicove
Kitty Porterfield
S. Raymond
Beatrice Rosenbloom
David and Susan Rothenberg
Linda Rubens
Annette Satloff
Mona Seghatoleslami
Jason S. Smith
June Spratt
Michael Steinberg
Martina Stoeckl
Lawrence Teel
Krestie Utech
Ralph and Janice Volpe
Judit Wagner, MD
Eileen Wegman
Barbara Anne Zinker
SOLO
Clifford Ameduri
Gloria Baciewicz
Susan and Asish Basu
Gail Bosso
Eileen Buholtz
Carol and Bill Crocca
Daryl Dear Cubitt
Professor Christian and Ann Day
Peter Elliott
Kirk Heriot
James Jordan
Rose and John Kearin
Jennifer Lloyd and Connie Gates
Steven and Gail Goldberg
Deborah and Alan Lattime
Anne D. Lutkus
Paul and Helga Morgan
Otto Muller-Girard
Pamela and Paul Ness
David and Marjorie Perlman
Jon and Katherine Schumacher
Suzanne M. Spencer
Susan and Michael Stinson
Brock Tjosvold
Wayne and Anne Vander Byl
Janet Williams
QUARTET
S. D. Alexander-Jansson
Brigitte Bentele
Celia Easton
Rob W. Goodling
Marge Grinols
Katie Hannigan
Charlotte Landhuis
Gilbert Kennedy McCurdy
Ralph Meyer
Caroline S. Schultz
Karen A. Tinsmon
John C. Williams
CHORUS
Barbara and Stewart Agor
Vanda Albera
Michael Amorese
Suzanne Bell and Christopher Brown
Canandaigua National Bank & Trust
Patricia and Ed Carey
Margaret Freeman
Ruth Freeman
Barbara Hamlin
Stephanie Havey
Maria Isgro
Maxine Manjos
Robyn and Kirk Miller
Paychex Charitable Foundation
Margaret Sánchez
YOUNG ARTIST
Curt and Elizabeth Long
Drs. Margaret and Arnold Matlin
Bliss Owen
Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation
Helga Strasser
Nancy Williams
DIVA
Maggie and Neil Atkins
Ruth Rowse and Chris Dahl
Noël and JoBeth Nichols
New York State Council on the Arts
Sharon and Ron Salluzzo
Spindler Family Foundation at the Rochester Area Community Foundation
STARRING CAST
Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation
Rose-Marie B. Klipstein
Monroe County
Marion Swett Robinson
Susan and Rob Shapiro
IMPRESARIO
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Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation
Opera Guild of Rochester
Rochester Area Community Foundation
FINGER LAKES OPERA IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE FOLLOWING:
Asbury First United Methodist Church
Crystal Sellers Battle
Bishop Kearney High School
Garth Fagan Dance
Katie Hannigan
Joseph Avenue Arts & Culture Alliance
Rose-Marie Klipstein
Sheron Marche'
David Moffitt, GRID Marketing
RIT/NTID
Marion Swett Robinson
Sharon Salluzzo
Fred Tanksley, Studio 141 Photography
Tri-Cities Opera
*deceased
THANK YOU TO OUR PROGRAM ADVERTISERS
We extend our gratitude for these local businesses and organizations for their support of Finger Lakes Opera.
UP NEXT: FALL ENGAGEMENT TOUR
OCTOBER 20 -31, 2025
THE BILLY GOATS GRUFF, 2024
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, 2019
GOLDIE B. LOCKS AND THE THREE SINGING BEARS, 2023
PAST PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS
La Bohème, 2019
©Dave Jones, Empire West Photo
The Barber of Seville, 2021
©Dave Jones, Empire West Photo
Summer Scenes, 2022
©Dave Jones, Empire West Photo
Finger Lakes Opera is the premiere professional opera company in the Finger Lakes and Rochester Regions of Western New York. With a blossoming Young Artist Program, awe-inspiring mainstage productions in the summer, and a wide breadth of community events throughout the year, Finger Lakes Opera believes that opera is life. out loud.
Learn more about Finger Lakes Opera and read our Mission & Vision Statements >
WILL YOU HELP SUPPORT OPERA IN ROCHESTER?
Before the pandemic, our ticket sales and other earned revenue accounted for 30% of our total income. After COVID-19, that number has fallen less than 10%. Will you help us bridge the gap by contributing to our Annual Fund?
Together, we can keep the music playing for decades to come.
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