- January 11, 2012
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"Not all my dates are here," joked Blake Jones, center, wing Barbara Tiffany, left, and Sherry Cole, right, as they waited for friend Valerie Vance to arrive.
Marci Weibel and her husband, Mark, sell raffle tickets each year.
Don and Lindi Moreau, of Palm-Aire, love attending.
Summerfield's Rossana Schmidt and her daughter, Bryanna, volunteer for the event.
Gayle Guynup, Lee Dougherty Ross and Michaela Ristaino
Greenbrook's Peter and Teresa Masterson watch their daughter, Sophia, perform.
Composer Thomas Pasatieri poses with event organizers, opera singers and longtime friends Carol Sparrow and Randolph Locke.
Clockwise from front: Patricia Talbott, Gene Noble, Richard Reber and Glo Reber.
Marcel, owned by Tracy Lamb, quickly became the evening's mascot. "He did dress in a tux," Lamb says.
Lorraine Murphy joins friend Judy Egan, of Longwood Run, who came to watch a student she mentors, Nicole Smith, not pictured.
Performer Jessica Hollick Dvoracsek laughs with her mom, Kathy Hollick, before the performance.
Palm-Aire Country Club member Helen Martin loves the OASIS event.
Gary Ward poses with his wife Genie Polower, a 69-year-old opera student.
Chelsea Alberda sings "I Wish I Were In Love Again" made famous by actress Judy Garland.
Conn Thibodeau performs a duet from "Phantom of the Opera" with Nicole Smith.
Nicole Smith and Conn Thibodeau perform a duet from "Phantom of the Opera."
Opera enthusiasts and animal lovers joined together July 29 and July 30, at the Palm-Aire Country Club, for the OASIS (Opera for Animals: Singing is Saving) Young Artist Program.
Guests enjoyed a cocktail hour and dinner buffet before opera, operetta and musical theater performance by opera students of East County residents Carol Sparrow and Randolph Locke.
Sparrow and Locke’s longtime friend, composer Thomas Pasatieri, was also in attendance.
