Charles Runnells | Naples Daily News
When Ramón Tebar joined Opera Naples in 2013, the new artistic director had a major goal: To bring more international opera singers to Naples.
Not Naples, Italy, mind you.
Naples, Florida.
Most opera stars, though, had no idea there even WAS another Naples.
“I had to always explain — at least for the first two, three seasons: ‘Well, this is not Napoli,’” Tebar says. “This is not Naples, Italy. It’s Naples, Florida.”
That quickly changed, though, as major opera stars came to sing for Southwest Florida audiences. Then they’d go back to Europe and tell all their friends.
“The opera world is a very small world,” Tebar says. “They would talk to each other. They would say, ‘Look, you should go to Naples. It’s wonderful — a great city. … You’ll have a lot of fun.’
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