Big Announcement!!!

Friday evening at Kentucky Opera's opening night of Otello, the announcement came.
The Opera announced their three season plan which includes an "Audience Choice " in the 2010 Season! Here is the line up:

2009 :
Verdi's La Traviata
Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men
Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
Beethoven's "Fidelio" in concert with the Louisville Orchestra

2010:
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
Audience Choice -- Donizetti's The Elixir of Love;Britten's The Turn of the Screw; Offenbach's La Perichole. At $1 a vote one of these very different operas will bring in the Louisville-born soprano Emily Albrink.
Puccini's Madama Butterfly
Verdi's, Nabucco in concert with the Louisville Orchestra

2011:
Bizet's Carmen
Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair
Verdi's Rigoletto
Concert TBD

Read Andrew Adlers story here
Do tell us what you think through the comments but remember if you want to vote on the Audience Choice, you must submit $$$! Vote eary & often! You can call the opera if you would like to vote via credit card. 502-584-4500.