Black Bear Men’s Chorus, directed by Danny Williams and assistant directed and accompanied by Ginger Yang Hwalek, is comprised of students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. In this concert, they will sing a varied program of men’s choral repertoire. Tickets: $12, including fees.
Lucas Richman, conductor Firefly, composer & performing artist University of Maine Singers Oratorio Society At long last, Beethoven’s 9th returns to the BSO stage in a burst of joy to conclude the orchestra’s 127th season. What’s Interesting About This Concert Local artist Fireflyis a traditional music keeper of the Wabanaki known for his inventive techniques and […]
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. […]
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 […]
by William Shakespeare directed by Clint Dyer An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), and Paul Hilton (The Inheritance). She’s a bright, headstrong daughter of a senator; elevated by her status but stifled by its expectations. He’s […]
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 […]
by Arthur Miller directed by Lyndsey Turner A thunderous new imagining of Arthur Miller’s parable of power and its abuse, with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma) as John Proctor and Abigail Williams. A witch hunt is beginning. Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly […]
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 […]