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Sarasota News Leader October 4, 2013 Page 109 Additionally, a series of free public talks will be presented by Sarasota Opera staff members in honor of three anniversaries: the 200th birthdays of Verdi and Richard Wagner and the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten. These talks, again presented in partnership with the Selby Public Library, will be held in the library's Geldbart Auditorium, the release notes. On Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 10:30 a.m., Victor DeRenzi, artistic director of Sarasota Opera, will discuss Sarasota Opera's Verdi Cycle, which is scheduled to be completed in 2016. At that time, "Sarasota Opera will have the distinction of being the only opera company in the world to have performed every published note Verdi wrote," the release points out. On Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 10:30 a.m., DeRenzi A portrait of Guiseppe Verdi hangs in the will moderate a screening and discussion of National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. Photo the documentary, Tosca's Kiss. Produced in by Giovanni Boidini via Wikimedia Commons 1984, it profiles residents of the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for retired Italian opera On Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 10:30 a.m., Samuel singers in Milan, which was established by Lowry, director of audience development at Verdi in 1902, the release says. Sarasota Opera, and Jesse Martins, Sarasota On Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 10:30 a.m., Sarasota Youth Opera's music director, will present a talk Opera Executive Director Richard Russell on the operatic world of composer Benjamin will present a program on the operatic world Britten. This will include musical excerpts from of Richard Wagner, focusing on Sarasota Britten's children's opera, The Little Sweep, Opera's 2014 winter production of Wagner's which will be presented by the Sarasota Youth opera, The Flying Dutchman. Opera Nov. 9-10, the release notes. VENICE THEATRE PUTS OUT CASTING CALL FOR THOSE AGE 50 AND UP Venice Theatre's senior outreach troupe, The Silver Foxes, is seeking new members to enable it to bring variety shows to venues throughout the county from November to April. Harry Moses, president of the Silver Foxes, is inviting people age 50 and up to audition, the release adds. Auditions for singers will be held on Monday, Oct. 7, at 9:30 a.m., the release continues. Each March, the troupe also presents five Singers should bring 16 to 32 bars of sheet performances of its annual Follies on the the- music; no tapes or CDs should be used. Musical Director Bobby Brader and Artistic atre's MainStage, a news release says.