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Your gift provides opportunities to bring opera performances and events to our communities throughout the state of Maryland and supports our educational and senior citizen outreach programs.
SUPPORT MARYLAND OPERA
If you have been moved, entertained, or inspired by live opera events, or are just passionate about the importance of art and music in our communities, consider making a gift today. Your support allows us to continue to present the highest quality and most impactful opera experiences for you, and for students and senior citizens all across Maryland.
Donations to Maryland Opera are essential to producing innovative and high quality artistic work, expanding our community partnerships, and maintaining our educational and senior citizen outreach programming and events. With your contribution, you play a vital role in ensuring Maryland Opera flourishes as a premier arts organization, now and in the future.
We welcome program sponsorships by foundations, corporations and individuals, as well as estate gifts. If you are interested, please contact us and one of our staff will call you to discuss.
PLEDGE A GIFT
Financial support for our general operating expenses is crucial. Gifts of all sizes from our audiences and community members are welcome.
Maryland Opera is accepting pledges for monthly and annual recurring gifts. Consider a small recurring donation to help strengthen our fiscal health and support our mission of bringing the beauty and excitement of live opera to audiences of all ages and backgrounds throughout Maryland. Click here to make a pledge.
Maryland Opera, Inc. is a non-stock corporation, exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, contributions to which are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable under law. In an effort to increase the sustainability of opera, in late 2017, the Modell-Lyric decided to spin-off all matters concerning opera to a separate entity, fully independent from the Lyric. That entity became Maryland Opera, Inc., with all of its resources and energies devoted to the production of opera and opera-related education and outreach programs.
Donations of stock
Maryland Opera welcomes gifts of stock. Paying with stock or other marketable securities which have appreciated in value may provide certain tax advantages to the donor. Please consult with your own tax advisor for guidance and advice. When paying or making a donation with stock, please contact (or request your broker to contact) Maryland Opera for instructions regarding how to complete the transaction.
Thank you to our
generous donors
We gratefully acknowledge these donors since January 1, 2021 for supporting our mission to bring the beauty and excitement of live opera to the state of Maryland.
Maryland Opera is a non-profit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, contributions to which are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable under law.
Maestro
Sandra & Malcolm Berman
DIRECTOR
Peter Williams
principal
The Estate of Edith Cord
Dr. Allan & Mrs. Claire Jensen
Marguerite VillaSanta
benefactor
Livio & Diane Broccolino
Cheryl & Jim Councill
Charlotte Floyd
Louise Kirby
Frederick Pearson
Susan & Edward Perl, in memory of HIlda Perl Goodwin
Dr. Mahin Shamszad & Dr. Homayoon Farzadegan
sustainer
Doris Anderson
Robert & Martha Armenti
Jason Buckwalter & Kimberly Christie
Nancy & James Cusack
Gwen Davidson
Gladys Fernandez
Pamela Gilmour
Edward Gutman
Barbara Hecht
Richard Ley
Michael McNamee
Sharon & Andrew Nickol
Julie Shalack
John Shields
Julia M. Soler
Edith Stern & Allan Spradling
Sharon Wasserman
Lisa B. Williams
supporter
Marion Carozza
Barry Daly
Richard & Rosalee Davison
Vicki & Bruce Finkelstein
Donna & Joe Flynn
Mary R. Giles
Kathy & Tim Grayson
Steve & Monty Howard
Robert Hitz
Judith Kahl
Rona Gail Kleiman
Paul Lambert
David E. Malloy
Edward McGee
Donald Milsten
Ray C. Mitzel, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William Murphy
Virginia T. Pond
Sarah Robinson
Dolores, Kathy, & Maggie Shamer
Edith Stern & Allan Spradling
Richard & Joanne Vatz
Martin & Barbara Wasserman
Sharon Wasserman
Michael & Roberta Wentworth
patron
Katherine B. Allen
Sandi Atkinson
Michaele Battles
The Estate of Margaret Hennessey Broffman
Phyllis Bryn-Julson & Donald Sutherland
Debra Colmers
Carole Conors
Robert Daly
Ronald E. Dencker
Nancy Denebeim
Mary Durham
Michaeline Fedder
Margaret Galambos
Lucy Hagopian
Ilene Harris, in honor of Judy Waranch
Patricia & Norman Hogeland
Felice Homann
Conchita Hong Furlong
Lelia Hopkins
Judith A. James
Joeann Karibo & Mark Tamulonis
Cheryl Martin Kauffman
John Kelly
Timothy Kjer
Mary Ann Knab
Bernard E. Koehr
Rita A. Lehr
Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Leitao
Sandy & Rick Losemann
Valerie Olson
James Padgett
Susan Payne
Joseph D. Pepin
Martin, Perschler
Richard Poremski
A.F. Reed
Carol Rubinstein, in honor of Judith Waranch
Janet Ruckle
Mary Rutledge
Brad Schlegel, in honor of Brendan Cooke
Dr. Bill Shelton
Dottie Schmidt
Eleanor Schwark
Juliet Schwartzman
Emily Scott
Alex & Patricia Short
Adri Stauffer Belkot
Jane Thompson
H. Mebane Turner
Barbara C. White
Jim Williams & Stuart Berger
Miryam Yardumian,
in honor of Lois Schenck's 80th birthday
foundational support
Baltimore Community Foundation
The Kenneth S. Battye Charitable Trust
Loretta Lee Ver Valen Endowment Fund
for Leading Operatic Artists
Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation
Peggy & Yale Gordon Charitable Trust
PNC Grow Up Great
S.J. Campbell Fund
Wells Fargo Cultural Excellence
Maryland Opera is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org)
