Opera in the Ozarks to Get New Theater Building
By David SalazarArkansas’ Opera in the Ozarks will be getting a new theater building courtesy of The Walton Family Foundation.
In an official press statement released on the Walton Family Foundation’s official website, the organization revealed that it will provide a $38 million grant to fund the design and construction of the facility. The theater aims to seat 300 people and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2025. Construction begins this June.
“For seven decades, artists have traveled to Opera in the Ozarks on their music education journey,” said Jim and Lynne Walton in the official statement. “A new theater continues this legacy by offering generations of future musicians and singers a new stage to showcase their talents.”
The Walton Family Foundation works in three areas: “improving education, protecting rivers and oceans and the communities they support, and investing in our home region of Northwest Arkansas and the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta.”
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