A&E Picks and Highlights

Current Performance: Azucena in Verdi’s “Il trovatore” at Sarasota Opera. The production runs through March 22.

Hometown: Euclid, Ohio.

If you could be anything other than a musician: I think I would be working in speech pathology.

What’s your least favorite sound: Snorting.

What song always gets stuck in your head: “Moon River”

If you could sing any role what would it be? Delilah in the opera “Samson et Delilah” by Camille Saint-Saëns

Where: Café Americano, 1409 Main St.

What: This is a popularly requested classic Mediterranean dish. It’s made with homemade pasta combined with fresh clams in a simple but elegant sauce with garlic, extra virgin olive oil enriched with fresh organic cherry tomatoes. It’s $15.95.

What else: It’s recommended that you top the dish with bottarga for an additional $2 — it’s a Mediterranean salt-cured roe also known as Italian caviar.

Best paired with: Pinot Grigio Branko

Size and medium: 30 inches by 38 inches; photography, Digital C Print.

On display: Through April 5 in “Revelations On The World As It Is: Adriane Colburn and Christina Seely” at Selby Gallery, 2700 N. Tamiami Trail

Inspiration: (This photo is one in Seely’s project “Lux” here’s her inspiration for the series): “ I was captivated by the beauty of the light on the NASA map of the world at night and also the complexity of what this light represents about us ... Three regions on the map are noticeably brighter than the rest ... and they use around two-thirds of the world’s resources and create about 45% of the world’s CO2. Though these statistics lead to the conclusion that this light obviously equals an intensely negative impact on the planet; since its inception, man-made light has also represented ingenuity and progress, innovation, growth, prosperity, amusement, romance, optimism and promise — basically fundamentally positive and hopeful things. My real interest lies in this complexity and what it reflects about our current relationship with the planet.”

A&E Editor's Picks: 

Thursday, Feb. 20
‘Man of La Mancha’
2 and 8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $35 to $70. Call 953-3368.

‘Ringling by the Bay: soulRCoaster’
5 p.m. at Bayfront Gardens
Tickets $10. Call 359-5700.

‘New Stages: ETHEL & Robert Mirabal’
7:30 p.m. at Historic Asolo Theater
Runs through Friday.
Tickets $30. Call 359-5700.

Masterworks Series: ‘Homage’
Sarasota Orchestra
8 p.m. at Neel Performing Arts Center
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
2:30 p.m. Sunday at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $20 to $84. Call 953-3434.

Friday, Feb. 21
Jazz at Two: Skip Conkling
The Jazz Club of Sarasota
2 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist
Call 366-1152.

Tom Ellison with June Garber and the Hip Pocket Quartet
7 p.m. at St. Thomas More Catholic Church.
Tickets $10. Call 923-1691.

Saturday, Feb. 22
Shake, Rattle and Roll with the Chorus of the Keys
2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Riverview Performing Arts Center
Tickets $20 to $35. Call 993-8768.

Sunday, Feb. 23
34th annual Jazz Festival
Jazz Club of Sarasota
Runs through March 1.
Various times and various locations. Call 366-1552.

‘Americana’
Suncoast Concert Band
3 p.m. at Church of the Palms
Tickets $5. Call 907-4123.

34th annual Jazz Festival: Jazz in the Park
Jazz Club of Sarasota
Noon at Philippi Park. Call 343-7773.

Monday, Feb. 24
‘Memphis’
8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Call 953-3368.

Tuesday, Feb. 25
Meet the Artists of ‘The Flying Dutchman’
Sarasota Opera
5 p.m. at Sarasota Opera House
Tickets $5. Call 328-1300.

Wednesday, Feb. 26
Inside Asolo Rep Panel Discussion: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
11 a.m. at Asolo Repertory Theatre
Tickets $5. Call 351-8000.

Ariel Quartet: The Beethoven Cycle: Complete String Quartets
The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast
7 p.m. at USF Sarasota-Manatee
Tickets $20. Call 350-2338.

Lang Lang
8 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Tickets $70 to $105. Call 953-3368.

34th annual Jazz Festival: Caravan by Trolley
Jazz Club of Sarasota
6:15 p.m. at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Call 366-1552.