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It would be the greatest compliment to DeRenzi to note that the performance continued without a hitch. Under the direction of assistant conductor Geoffrey Loff, making his Sarasota debut this season, the orchestra sounded as polished as usual with notable solos from both English and French horns.
The singers, most of whom are veterans of Sarasota Opera seasons past, carry out their roles with consummate skill pointing to the fact that the largest share of work for both conductor and stage director is done prior to the first performance.
Stephanie Sundine has always shown great skill directing large farces and plenty of action on stage. The small cast of “Bruschino” has its own challenges twisting and turning around the deception plotted by lovers Florville (Christopher Bozeka) and Sofia (Hanna Brammer).
It was the sound of the applause from a crowd of roughly 200 people scattered around the auditorium. No matter how enthusiastic they might have been, 200 people can’t sound like the much larger crowds that usually keep the Opera House filled each season.
But to DeRenzi and other company members, that socially distanced audience produced a most joyful sound.
Though he tends to look at his job “through the eyes of conducting, for me it was just great that we were all together making music. There were people in the theater for the first time in a year and we were able to bring the community together, the performers, our crews and the audience.”
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Ray Cooper near the site of the 1932 Doris Disaster. Ray was aged three, the second oldest of four sons, when the accident occurred. He has no memory of his dad. He and his brothers shifted around with their mum Florence for a while before being placed in an orphanage. He began working at 14, eventually becoming a bricklayer and plasterer. He married Ngaire and they raised four kids. “Mum never talked about dad, ever, until the day she died. The kids at school would talk about what they’d done with their dads, but it was a non-event for us,” he said.