Stop. Look. Listen.

Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera Saturday: Bellini’s La Sonnambula, with Natalie Dessay as Amina, 1 p.m., Penn Cinema. Here are some reviews: it seems Mary Zimmerman’s production received a critical reception but the singing and acting are getting more love. Besides, Dessay is being a good sport about the whole thing. (HT to About Last Night for […]

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Patricia Racette as Cio-Cio-San in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, to be shown live in HD 1 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Penn Cinema.

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Franklin & Marshall’s performing arts season gets off to a quick start with the Second City Touring Company’s DeFace the Nation Sept. 1-2 and pianist Andrius Zlabys Sept. 6, followed by OperaLancaster’s Puccini double bill of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci. Get a schedule here, or check the box office here. It’s worth noting that this fall’s Sound Horizons series […]

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The Metropolitan Opera will be broadcasting live in HD again this season, and here are the details. The opening gala, featuring Renée Fleming, is Monday, Sept. 22. The season includes the premiere of John Adam’s Doctor Atomic and new productions of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, Massenet’s Thaïs, Puccini’s La Rondine and Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Tickets are on sale […]

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It wouldn’t be summer without lemonade, and it wouldn’t be summer in Lancaster without the Lemonade Concert Series. Produced by OperaLancaster, the concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at the Church of the Apostles, 1850 Marietta Ave., starting June 19. Here’s the schedule:
June 19 - Voices of the Future: Jean Bradel and Millersville […]

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Imagine a land ruled by the military, a land in which people vanished silently overnight and no one dared mention their names. Imagine a time and place where it would take supreme courage just to say your child’s name – when your child is one of the disappeared. That is the military-ruled Argentina of the […]

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Music and drama come together to tell the story of a courageous group of women in “Las Madres de la Plaza,” a new opera being staged at Elizabethtown College Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Two Elizabethtown faculty members created the piece: John Rohrkemper, associate professor of English, wrote the […]

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