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Jan
13
Wed
Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci @ Limelight Cinema
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Jan 13 @ 6:00 pm
Royal Opera House: Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci @ Limelight Cinema | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Presented by Mount Bakery with complimentary delicious treats served at the Sunday Matinees. These two short Italian operas are each regarded as the composers’ masterpiece, and are brought together in a new staging by award-winning director Damiano Michieletto, who sets both operas in a poverty stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where the Mafia has a hold. The Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts a cast that includes charismatic Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, exciting Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio and the thrilling Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: film Local Film opera
Sep
9
Fri
Opera Latte @ Walton Theater
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Sep 9 @ 7:30 pm

Opera Latte is two short comic operas about coffee: La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi and The Coffee Cantata by J.S. Bach. The works represent the musical theater of the Baroque period. In one, an arrogant maid cons her master into marrying her so she won’t have to submit to a mistress. In the other a father berates his daughter for her coffee habit. Eventually, daughter and father reconcile when he agrees to have a guaranteed three cups of coffee a day written into her marriage contract (remember, this was written in 1735).

The production, in English, features local singers and is staged and directed by Rob Viens, with live chamber orchestra.

 

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: opera
Sep
10
Sat
Opera Latte @ Walton Theater
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Sep 10 @ 3:00 pm

Opera Latte is two short comic operas about coffee: La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi and The Coffee Cantata by J.S. Bach. The works represent the musical theater of the Baroque period. In one, an arrogant maid cons her master into marrying her so she won’t have to submit to a mistress. In the other a father berates his daughter for her coffee habit. Eventually, daughter and father reconcile when he agrees to have a guaranteed three cups of coffee a day written into her marriage contract (remember, this was written in 1735).

The production, in English, features local singers and is staged and directed by Rob Viens, with live chamber orchestra.

 

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Opera Latte @ Walton Theater
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Sep 10 @ 7:30 pm

Opera Latte is two short comic operas about coffee: La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi and The Coffee Cantata by J.S. Bach. The works represent the musical theater of the Baroque period. In one, an arrogant maid cons her master into marrying her so she won’t have to submit to a mistress. In the other a father berates his daughter for her coffee habit. Eventually, daughter and father reconcile when he agrees to have a guaranteed three cups of coffee a day written into her marriage contract (remember, this was written in 1735).

The production, in English, features local singers and is staged and directed by Rob Viens, with live chamber orchestra.

 

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: opera
Sep
11
Sun
Opera Latte @ Walton Theater
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Sep 11 @ 3:00 pm

Opera Latte is two short comic operas about coffee: La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi and The Coffee Cantata by J.S. Bach. The works represent the musical theater of the Baroque period. In one, an arrogant maid cons her master into marrying her so she won’t have to submit to a mistress. In the other a father berates his daughter for her coffee habit. Eventually, daughter and father reconcile when he agrees to have a guaranteed three cups of coffee a day written into her marriage contract (remember, this was written in 1735).

The production, in English, features local singers and is staged and directed by Rob Viens, with live chamber orchestra.

 

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: opera
Feb
4
Sat
Firefly Classics Presents Soprano Ibidunni Ojikutu and Pianist Rebecca Jordan Mañalac @ Jansen Art Center
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Feb 4 @ 7:30 pm
Firefly Classics Presents Soprano Ibidunni Ojikutu and Pianist Rebecca Jordan Mañalac @ Jansen Art Center | Lynden | Washington | United States

The Jansen Art Center is pleased to present the first Firefly Classics concert of the season featuring Soprano Ibidunni Ojikutu and Pianist Rebecca Jordan Mañalac on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. The Firefly Classics series features classical music performances held in the beautiful Chamber Hall, which seats 100 people and features a Schimmel concert grand piano, providing an intimate setting for the community to engage in live music experiences.

Ojikutu and Mañalac collaborate to present “Songs From the American Experience.” This multi-faceted program celebrates the music of American composers, featuring Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Moses Hogan, Nkeiru Okoye, Rogers & Hammerstein, and more.

New works join old favorites, opera mingles with jazz, and spirituals meet musicals in a journey that takes us from Appalachia to the Midwest, from the deep South to Philadelphia. These songs express the hopes and fears, loves and labors of a diverse people coming together to build a country that can be home for all.

Tickets for this concert are $25 and can be purchased at the Gallery Shop at the Jansen Art Center or online at www.jansenartcenter.org. Firefly Classics 3-Concert Series tickets for the are available for $65.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: classical music concert opera Piano
Jul
30
Sun
Otello (Royal Opera House) @ Pickford Film Center
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Jul 30 @ 11:00 am – 1:45 pm
Otello (Royal Opera House) @ Pickford Film Center | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Otello is Verdi’s final tragedy. After astonishing productivity in his early career, the composer slowed in later life; more than fifteen years separate Otello and its predecessor, Aida, although Verdi revised his earlier works Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlo in the interim. He was lured out of retirement by the composer and librettist Arrigo Boito, who tempted him with a proposal that was very close to Verdi’s heart: Shakespeare’s Othello. Boito adapted the libretto from Shakespeare’s play, with much intervention from Verdi. As the latest utterance from the master of Italian opera, the 1887 premiere was an instant success – but, more than that, Otello has been an important part of the international opera repertory ever since.

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Othello (Royal Opera House) @ Pickford Film Center
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Jul 30 @ 11:00 am – 1:45 pm

Otello is Verdi’s final tragedy. After astonishing productivity in his early career, the composer slowed in later life; more than fifteen years separate Otello and its predecessor, Aida, although Verdi revised his earlier works Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlo in the interim. He was lured out of retirement by the composer and librettist Arrigo Boito, who tempted him with a proposal that was very close to Verdi’s heart: Shakespeare’s Othello. Boito adapted the libretto from Shakespeare’s play, with much intervention from Verdi. As the latest utterance from the master of Italian opera, the 1887 premiere was an instant success – but, more than that, Otello has been an important part of the international opera repertory ever since.

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Theater Performances Tags: film opera royal opera house
Nov
3
Fri
Pacific Northwest Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro” @ McIntyre Hall
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Nov 3 @ 7:30 pm – 10:45 pm
Pacific Northwest Opera presents "The Marriage of Figaro" @ McIntyre Hall

Pacific Northwest Opera will be presenting Mozart’s masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro”, considered one of the greatest operas ever written, and one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score. Features Metropolitan Opera soprano Katie van Kooten and a cast of brilliant young singers at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon . Four performances November 3,5,10, & 12

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Nov
5
Sun
Pacific Northwest Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro” @ McIntyre Hall
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Nov 5 @ 1:30 pm
Pacific Northwest Opera presents "The Marriage of Figaro" @ McIntyre Hall

Pacific Northwest Opera will be presenting Mozart’s masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro”, considered one of the greatest operas ever written, and one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score. Features Metropolitan Opera soprano Katie van Kooten and a cast of brilliant young singers at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon. Four performances November 3,5,10, & 12

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Nov
10
Fri
Pacific Northwest Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro” @ McIntyre Hall
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Nov 10 @ 7:30 pm – 10:45 pm
Pacific Northwest Opera presents "The Marriage of Figaro" @ McIntyre Hall

Pacific Northwest Opera will be presenting Mozart’s masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro”, considered one of the greatest operas ever written, and one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score. Features Metropolitan Opera soprano Katie van Kooten and a cast of brilliant young singers at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon. Four performances November 3,5,10, & 12

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Categories: Arts and Entertainment Tags: opera Theater
Nov
12
Sun
Pacific Northwest Opera presents “The Marriage of Figaro” @ McIntyre Hall
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Nov 12 @ 1:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Pacific Northwest Opera presents "The Marriage of Figaro" @ McIntyre Hall

Pacific Northwest Opera will be presenting Mozart’s masterpiece “The Marriage of Figaro”, considered one of the greatest operas ever written, and one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score. Features Metropolitan Opera soprano Katie van Kooten and a cast of brilliant young singers at McIntyre Hall, Mount Vernon. Four performances November 3,5,10, & 12

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January 2016 – November 2023 Jan 2016 – Nov 2023