
Cincinnati Opera has announced details of the company’s 2021 Summer Festival, a return to the stage following the cancellation of the company’s 100th anniversary season in summer 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A sold-out crowd filled the theater at the School of Creative and Performing Arts to see the Righteous Brothers in concert. The benefit was organized by Neal Schear of Schear & Schear and Larry Bergman of NAI Bergman to raise money for Starfire.
While the new administrators were busy attending to the needs of SCPA faculty, staff and students, executive director Nick Nissley realized “the real crisis was that we had lost the trust and confidence of our investors, of the donor community.” The public couldn’t discern the difference between the Friends of SCPA fundraising organization and the school itself, he said.