2024/25 Season
Sponsors & Contributors
Amelia Island Opera gratefully acknowledges our many contributors for their financial support. Your gifts help drive our mission to enrich the cultural fabric of the greater Amelia Island community, elevate the voices of emerging artists, and explore alternative mediums of performance.
Listed gifts were received between September 1, 2023, and June 30, 2025. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of our donor listings. If we have misspelled or omitted a name or you would prefer to not be listed online, please accept our apology and notify us at
(904) 556-7342 or info@ameliaislandopera.org so that we may update our records accordingly.
Diamond ($10,000 +):
Paul Bosland
The Burroughs Family Foundation (Nancy Bartmess and Richard Burroughs)
Platinum ($5,000 - $9,999):
Sue Ann Braddock
Keith and Marilyn Erdahl
William and Debbie Hyde
Robert E. & Patricia M. Stichweh
Gold ($1,000 - $4,999):
Susan Barry & Gerald Custer
Virginia "Gigi" Feazell
Dan Groth and Frances Peters
Shelley and Jeff Hirshberg
Michael Isernia
Mark and Donna Kaufman
Roderick Matthews
Gary and Toni Myers
William Petas and Pamela Stumpp
Jeannie Scheininger
Martin and Raylene Scholtens
Wendy Turner and Kim Pollock
Silver ($500 - $999):
Sarah J. Edwards
Ron and Lisa Flick
Marcia L. Foshee-Duffy and Robert Duffy
LaBeaud Philanthropic Foundation
Len and Lynne Pelletiere
Jeffrey Rogers
Suzanne and Doug Schiffman
Anne and Don Teddlie
Donald and Janet Wilkerson
Bronze ($100 - $499):
Susan Wood Alpeter
Jack & Diane Duffy
Claire Ellis
John and Caryl Ferry
Prudence D. Hostetter
Alwynne Lamp
Robin Lashley
Maya LoCastro
Patricia Wescott Lowe
Joseph Mayes
Alissa Myatt
Anne Oman
Beth Partleton
Jane Preston
Steve and Lucille Ramsey
Bert Royal
Judy Skaggs
Claudia Smith
Sandra Sproat
Christine Tibbetts
John Tibbetts I
Spence and Jan Turner
Nancie L Waldron
Marjean Wegner
Mariann Weihenmayer and Curtis Dahl
Thomas Whittemore
Robert Zingle
Supporters (up to $99):
Kathleen Boling
Joyce Ellenson
Richard Restiano
Judith Steinmeyer