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Pat Sullivan and Friends Holiday

Minsky Recital Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

Join Grammy Award winning composer and pianist Paul Sullivan for a warm, intimate concert to usher in the Holidays. He will be joined by Bangor Symphony Orchestra members Marisa Solomon, […]

The Doo Wop Project: A Doo Wop Christmas

Collins Center for the Arts

The Doo Wop Project begins at the beginning: tracing the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of five guys singing harmonies on a street corner to the biggest […]

The Met: Live in HD — The Hours

Collins Center for the Arts

Soprano Renee Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s "The Hours", adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway" and made a household name by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman, the […]

The Met: Live in HD — Fedora

Collins Center for the Arts

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of […]

The Met: Live in HD — Wagner: Lohengrin

Collins Center for the Arts

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of "Parsifal", director Francois Girard unveils an atmospheric staging […]

The Met: Live in HD — Verdi: Falstaff

Collins Center for the Arts

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park Ailyn Perez, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, tenor Bogdan […]

The Met: Live in HD — Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Collins Center for the Arts

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Gunther Groissbock returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Bruck is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal. […]

The Met: Live in HD — Blanchard: Champion

Collins Center for the Arts

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays […]

The Met: Live in HD — Mozart: Die Zauberflote

Collins Center for the Arts

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years — a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to […]

The Met: Live in HD — Don GIovanni

Collins Center for the Arts

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded […]

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