Rachel Bergman, flute
October 21 at 2:00 pm
Free and open to the public. A Sheridan College Faculty Recital.

Rachel Bergman, flute, will be joined by Anne Eisfeller, harp, and Marta Howard, viola.

Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
Bernard Andres: Narthex
Christian Erickson: Chorus Mundi: Four Dances for Flute and Harp (world premiere)
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

t’s bluegrass time, with local musicians playing some of the oldies … your favorites. Some old fiddle tunes and maybe a little bit of country too. Free and open to the public. $2 burgers also available.

For more information, call Bill Bradshaw at (307) 751-1852 or the Senior Center at (307) 672-2240.

GALA 2018 – THE ADDAMS FAMILY – Encore Performances

The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Gala – $110 per person

Please call the Box Office at 307-672-9084 for a group rate (10 or more)

GALA 2018 – THE ADDAMS FAMILY – Encore Performances

The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Gala – $110 per person

Please call the Box Office at 307-672-9084 for a group rate (10 or more)

THE MET LIVE IN HD 2018-19

Adult $21 ♦ Student $11 ♦ Met Season $157.50

All performances start at 10:55am with the exception of March 30th.

Season tickets are on sale now and will be available until October 13.  Individual operas will go on sale August 29!

Guiseppe Verdi’s Aida
Saturday, October 13, 10:55AM

Run time 3:36/two intermissions
(Act I 40/Intermission 30/Act II 43/Intermission 36/Act III 67)

In what should be a highlight of the new season, soprano Anna Netrebko sings her first Met Aida, going toe-to-toe with mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris. Later in the season, a second star-studded cast takes over, with Sondra Radvanovsky and Dolora Zajick as the leading ladies.Tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko and Yonghoon Lee alternate as Radamès, and Nicola Luisotti and Plácido Domingo take the podium for the Met’s monumental production.

 

Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West
Saturday, October 27, 10:55AM

Run time 3:22/two intermissions
(Act I 59/Intermission 36/Act II 46/Intermission 35/Act III 26)

Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves. Tenor Yusif Eyvazov also sings some performances. Baritone Željko Lučić is the vigilante sheriff Jack Rance, and Marco Armiliato conducts.

 

Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila
Saturday, November 3, 10:55AM

Run time 3:04/two intermissions
(Act I 46/Intermission 30/Act II 42/Intermission 30/Act III 36)

When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they open the season in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s biblical epic Samson et Dalila. Darko Tresnjak, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical in 2014 for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, makes his Met debut directing a vivid, seductive staging, featuring a monumental setting for the last-act Temple of Dagon, where the hero crushes his Philistine enemies. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years.

 

Nico Muhly Marnie
Saturday, November 10, 10:55AM

Run time 2:52/one intermission
(Act I 70/Intermission 30/Act II 72)

Composer Nico Muhly unveils his second new opera for the Met with this gripping reimagining of Winston Graham’s novel, set in the 1950s, about a beautiful, mysterious young woman who assumes multiple identities. Director Michael Mayer and his creative team have devised a fast-moving, cinematic world for this exhilarating story of denial and deceit, which also inspired a film by Alfred Hitchcock. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the enigmatic Marnie, and baritone Christopher Maltman is the man who pursues her—with disastrous results. Robert Spano conducts.
Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera
Music by Nico Muhly, libretto by Nicholas Wright, based on the novel by Winston Graham
By special arrangement with Universal Pictures

 

Guiseppe Verdi’s La Traviata
Saturday, December 15, 10:55AM

Run time 3:07/two intermissions
(Act I 30/Intermission 30/Act II 64/Intermission 30/Act III 33)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Michael Mayer’s richly textured new production, featuring a dazzling 18th-century setting that changes with the seasons. Soprano Diana Damrau plays the tragic heroine, Violetta, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez returns to the Met for the first time in five seasons to sing the role of Alfredo, Violetta’s hapless lover. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is Alfredo’s father, Germont, who destroys their love. Later performances feature Anita Hartig, Stephen Costello, Artur Ruciński, and Plácido Domingo.

 

Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Saturday, January 12, 10:55AM

Run time 3:33/two intermissions
(Act I 86/Intermission 30/Act II 28/Intermission 25/Act III 44)

Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on—for the first time at the Met—the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion. The soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała as Adriana’s lover, Maurizio. The principal cast also features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and baritone Ambrogio Maestri. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. Sir David McVicar’s staging, which sets the action in a working replica of a Baroque theater, premiered at the Royal Opera House in London, where the Guardian praised the “elegant production, sumptuously designed … The spectacle guarantees a good night out.”

 

Georges Bizet’s Carmen
Saturday, February 2, 10:55AM

Run time 3:21/one intermission
(Act I 101/Intermission 36/Act II 64)

Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances, with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere.

 

Gaetano Donizett’s La Fille due Régiment
Saturday, March 2, 10:55AM

Run time 2:35/one intermission
(Act I 77/Intermission 28/Act II 50)

Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts.

 

Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre
Saturday, March 30, 10:00AM  **** note start time ****

Run time 4:55/two intermissions
(Act I 65/Intermission 39/Act II 90/Intermission 35/Act III 66)

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

 

Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites
Saturday, May 25, 10:55AM

Run time 3:09/one intermission
(Act I 89/Intermission 30/Act II 72)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress.

GALA 2018 – THE ADDAMS FAMILY – Encore Performances

The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Gala – $110 per person

Please call the Box Office at 307-672-9084 for a group rate (10 or more)

GALA 2018 – THE ADDAMS FAMILY – Encore Performances

The Addams Family features an original story, and it’s every father’s nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. And if that weren’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before – keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s ‘normal’ boyfriend and his parents.

Gala – $110 per person

Please call the Box Office at 307-672-9084 for a group rate (10 or more)

 

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE 2018-19

Adult $21 ♦ Student $11 ♦ Season $94.50

Season tickets are on sale now and will be available until September 25. 

Follies
Tuesday, September 25, 6:00pm

Run time 2:15

New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weisman Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves.

Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke (The Comedy of Errors). Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy, and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George.

Appropriate for audiences 12 years old and up

** Please note this performance uses strobe lighting **

 

Frankenstein
Tuesday, October 30, 6:00pm

Run time 1:30

Frankenstein returns to international cinemas this Halloween, to mark the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s most famous novel.

Captured live in 2011 from the National Theatre stage in London, this thrilling, sold-out production became an international sensation, experienced by almost half a million people in cinemas around the world.

Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

Rated R

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tuesday, November 27, 6:00pm

Run time 2:40 with one 20 minute intermission

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is based on Mark Haddon’s award-winning novel, adapted by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott. The production won 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 and 5 Tony awards in 2015 including Best Play.

Rated R. Suitable for ages 15 and up. There is some strong language in this production, as there is in the novel. This occurs at the very beginning of the show and infrequently at other points during the show.

 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tuesday, January 15, 6:00pm

Run time 3:05

Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) starred Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?

Rated R. Suitable for ages 15 and up.

 

Hamlet
Tuesday, February 12, 6:00pm

Run time 3:25

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 750,000 people worldwide, the original 2015 NT Live broadcast returns to cinemas. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions

Suitable for ages 12 and up.

 

Macbeth
Tuesday, April 30, 6:00pm

Run time 3:30

The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.
Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), sees Rory Kinnear (Othello) and Anne-Marie Duff (Suffragette) play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

Please note this production contains scenes of a violent nature.
Rated R. Suitable for ages 15 and up.