FUNERAL INFORMATION UPDATED
Surviving Tri-Cities Opera co-founder Peyton Molyneaux Hibbitt passed away early this afternoon (March 1) at his home in Binghamton. The 2008 BCAC Heart of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award winner was 93.
Hibbitt and the late Carmen Savoca started TCO in 1949. The community opera group grew into a training company of international renown.

TCO co-founders Peyton Hibbitt, left, and Carmen Savoca. (Savoca died in 1998.)