MILWAUKEE, April 29 /PRNewswire/ - Global opera star and Grammy Award winner Mark S. Doss will be a featured singer at the 75th anniversary gala of Milwaukee's Florentine Opera Company.

By TOM STRINI Luncheon, lecture kick off MacDowell centennial The MacDowell Club of Milwaukee will open a year of centennial celebration events with its annual fall luncheon and lecture at 1 p.m. on Sept. 14.

By Tom Strini, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apr. 13--The Florentine Opera has abandoned its "Idiot's Delight" project, a proposed opera after Robert Sherwood's 1935 play. William Bolcom, an acclaimed composer who has had two major successes at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, was to have written the music.