An award-winning journalist recognized for her media leadership and for promoting diversity, Trish Muyco-Tobin has more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcasting. She is also a dedicated community volunteer.
Save the date for St. Louis’ biggest media event of the year: The St. Louis Press Club is presenting its Media Persons of the Year gala on Thursday, Nov. 21, at Edward Jones South Headquarters. The 2019 honorees comprise of longtime St. Louis media veterans in a number of fields, including KMOX broadcasters Carol Daniel and Ron Elz (Radio), KTVI’s retired meteorologist Dave Murray and retired GM/president Spencer Koch (TV), St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Sarah Bryan Miller and St. Louis Jewish Light’s Bob Cohn (Print), and St. Louis Cardinals’ Dan Farrell (Public Relations). Receiving this year’s Lifetime Achievement award is CBS correspondent Barry Petersen. Tickets and sponsorships are now available through stlpressclub.org. Gazelle is serving as the event’s media sponsor.
Union Avenue Opera’s 25th anniversary season, which runs July 5 to Aug. 24, will feature more than 20 artists who will make their debut with the company, as well as the return of Christine Brewer to the UAO stage. The seven-week summer season opens with Leonard Bernstein’s hilarious, philosophical and fast-paced take on Voltaire’s 1759 satire of the same name, “Candide,” starring Brewer. The rest of the season includes Puccini’s operatic blockbuster, “La bohème,” and the St. Louis premiere of Tom Cipullo’s “Glory Denied,” the true saga of Vietnam veteran Col. Jim Thompson, the longest-held American POW in U.S. history. UAO’s milestone season will culminate with a gala on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Barnett on Washington. For more information, visit UnionAvenueOpera.org.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2020 Festival season lineup is now complete, with the announcement of the entire repertory for next year. In addition to the previously announced world premiere of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s Awakenings, the season has three new productions of celebrated operas: Bizet’s Carmen, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, and the OTSL premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. The 2020 Festival Season, which runs May 23 to June 28, 2020, also features several notable debuts of emerging conductors and stage directors, including David Charles Abell, Rodula Gaitanou, Shawna Lucey, Timothy Myers and St. Louis Symphony resident conductor Gemma New.
We applaud this year’s winners of Landmarks Association of St. Louis’ Most Enhanced Awards, which recognize excellence in restoration, rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the city’s architectural gems. Among the 16 honorees are Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, which was dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936; the Louis Sullivan-designed Union Trust building that is now Hotel Saint Louis; the Sanctuary Lofts in the Central West End, a former church built in 1891; and the Tower Grove Park Stable, one of the park’s original buildings when it was founded more than 150 years ago.
