We had a small series of jazz concerts during the '92 Cup in San Diego, but Valencia appears to be pulling out all the stops. From this morning's Valencia Life....

OPERA CYCLE OPENS
The Palau de la Musica in Valencia will begin staging a series of Operas related with the sea as part of a season aimed at promoting the Americas Cup. The first opera – “Marina” by Emilio Arrieta – will be staged this coming Wednesday and Friday, and will feature soprano Milagros Poblador and tenor Ignacio Encinas along with the Valencia Symphony Orchestra and the Chorus of the Generalitat Valenciana under the baton of Miquel Ortega. Other operas with a maritime theme to be performed at the Palau include “Peter Grimes” by Benjamin Britten that is to be performed in May of 2007 – the year the Americas Cup races take place - and “Sadko” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov that will be staged in October next year by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Marinsky Theatre of St Petersburg.


Valencia's Palau de la Musica