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Arts Talk

By Times staff writers

Opera season announced

Opera Tampa, which premiered Anton Coppola's Sacco & Vanzetti in March, has announced its 2001-02 season at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. With Coppola conducting, the season opens Nov. 30-Dec. 2 with Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus. Feb. 8-10, a program devoted to the operatic and opera-influenced works of Leonard Bernstein will include the one-act Trouble in Tahiti plus suites from West Side Story and Candide. Verdi's Rigoletto winds up the season April 19-21.

TBPAC officer named

Julie Britton will oversee fundraising as the new vice president of advancement for Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Britton, who has been on the TBPAC staff since 1991, succeeds Ann McKeel Ross, who retired.

Opera scholarships

The Pinellas Opera League announced its annual scholarship winners: Jennifer Sanchez, a soprano who has applied for graduate study at the University of South Florida; soprano Mary Jo Vitale,a student at USF; and Jeanai Ratcliffe,soprano, who is working on a master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music.