When Leigh sang ‘The Impossible Dream’ at his father’s funeral, the moment was both a testament to his past and a harbinger of his future.
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‘The Met: Live’ returns to screen at Fryeburg Academy
“The Met: Live in HD,” the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, begins its 17th season with a live transmission of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, a Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove, starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 21, […]
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Opera Maine to stage comic opera ‘Cinderella’
Opera Maine presents its 29th season mainstage production of “Cinderella (La Cenerentola)” by Gioachino Rossini at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 27, and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 30, at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. The story of the opera, written by librettist Jacopo Ferretti, tells the familiar and beloved tale of Cinderella, but it […]
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‘Hamlet’ wraps up Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD season
The Metropolitan Opera presents “Hamlet” for the the final Live in HD simulcast of the 2021-22 season to be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. When Australian composer Brett Dean’s “Hamlet” had its world premiere at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017, The […]
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‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ to be presented in Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series
“Lucia di Lammermoor” continues the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD season at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 21, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in Fryeburg. Soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by […]
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‘Don Carlos’ production continues Met Opera streaming series
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD season continues with “Don Carlos” at 12 p.m. on Saturday, March 26, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera. Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a cast of opera’s […]
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Met Live ‘Rigoletto’ to be shown this weekend
An encore screening of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” will be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. Originally scheduled for Jan. 29, the simulcast was canceled due to inclement weather. Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s riveting new staging Verdi’s “Rigoletto” astounded cinema audiences worldwide […]
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‘Rigoletto’ to be shown in Metropolitan Opera series
The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series presents Verdi’s Rigoletto at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 29, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy. Opera enthusiast Joe De Vito will be hosting his acclaimed Opera Lecture Series at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, in the LHE/PAC seminar room. The lectures […]
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When 3 divas put Maine atop the world stage
Three Maine women born in the middle of the 1800s were counted among the globe’s top singers during opera’s heyday.
