Opera Maine is excited to once again partner with OceanView at Falmouth to present a special series of famous opera performances from around the world. Let’s come together as a community to enjoy and discuss opera.
Details and links for the MET LIVE IN HD can be found at the bottom of this page!
Fall 2024 and 2025 Opera Film Series Subscription (October 26, December 14, February 8, April 5, June 7)
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La Rondine Live in January by Giacomo Puccini
Saturday, December 14, 1:00 p.m.
Single Ticket December 14
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Giacomo Puccini’s La Rondine follows the love story between Magda and Ruggero through mid-20th century France. During the first act Magda is told she is like a swallow which foreshadows this bittersweet story. This production was recorded live at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2015.
Total run time: 1 hour and 45 minutes
1 intermission
Release date: May 26, 2016
Composer: Puccini, Giacomo
Conductor: Roberto Razzi Brignoli
Director: Rolando Villazón
Cast: Dinara Alieva – Charles Castronovo – Alexandra Hutton – Alvaro Zambrano
Subtitles: English
Language: Italian
Saturday, February 8, 1:00 p.m.
Romeo and Juliette by Charles Gounod
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Sung in French
180 minutes
1 intermission
Charles Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette is a five act French opera based on the famous Shakespeare tragedy. The opera is notable for its romantic duets between the two main characters.
Saturday, April 5 1:00 p.m.
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni.
Pagilacci by Ruggers Leoncavallo.
Single Ticket April 5
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Altogether 160 minutes
1 intermission
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
The 2015 Salzburg Easter Festival put on a lavish production of Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Jonas Kaufmann makes his debut as both Turiddu in Cavalleria Rustico and Canio in Pagliacci. Both operas boast a strong cast. Liudmyla Monastyrska, Stefania Toczyska, Ambrogio Maestri, and Annalisa Stroppa in Cavalleria Rusticana and Maria Agresta, Dimitri Platanias, Tansel Akzeybek, and Alessio Arduini in Pagliacci.
Candide by Leonard Berstein.
Single Ticket June 7
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Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide is based on Voltaire’s 1759 novella of the same name.
Total run time: 1 hour and 56 minutes
1 intermission
Release date: May 17, 2005
Composer: Bernstein, Leonard
Writers: Leonard Bernstein, Hugh Wheeler, Richard Wilbur, Stephen Sondheim
Director: Lonny Price
Cast: Kristen Chenoweth – Patti LuPone – Paul Grove – Sir Thomas Allen – Marin Alsop
Language: English
Saturday, October 26, 1:00 p.m. We will welcome you beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Arthaus releases on DVD another gem from the archives of Austrian Television. The outstanding production of Verdis Masked Ball at the Salzburg Festivals 1989 and 1990 was Herbert von Karajans legacy to the Festival. Supported by a cast of superlative actor-singers in opulent scenery, Sir George Solti agreed to conduct the opera at short notice after Karajans unexpected death in 1989. The production had been expected to be a highlight in Karajans series of Verdi operas at Salzburg. Karajans celebrated ability to unite a cultivated sound with dramatic effects was known to create extraordinary and highly acclaimed opera events. For Un ballo in maschera Karajan planned something unusual: He would not set the opera in colonial Massachusetts, as the censors had forced Verdi to do when he was composing the work, but in Stockholm in the 1790s at the court of King Gustav III of Sweden, as Verdi had originally conceived his work. Together withthe film director John Schlesinger and his stage team, Karajan developed a concept that promised theatrical splendour equal to the musical excellence that the conductor and the handpicked cast of singers would surely provide in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. But this was not to be: stage rehearsals had already begun for the opening performance of the 1989 festival when Karajan died on 16 July. Therefore it was extraordinarily lucky that a conductor of Sir Georg Soltis standing, was prepared to undertake the task just a week before the premiere, and with the whole world watching. He and the staging by Hollywood film director John Schlesinger was acclaimed by audience and press alike.
Total run time: 2 hours and 25 minutes
1 intermission
Release date: June 30, 2015
Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe
Conductor: Sir George Solti
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Plácido Domingo – Leo Nucci – Josephine Barstow – Florence Quivar – Sumi Jo – Kurt Rydl
Subtitles: English
Language: Italian (PCM Stereo)
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The screenings will take place at Lunt Auditorium on the campus of OceanView at Falmouth
74 Lunt Rd, Falmouth, Me. We will welcome you beginning at 12:30 p.m.
OceanView will provide light snacks and beverages (pending COVID protocols these may be take home treats).
There will be an intermission during each of the operas.
Purchase your tickets for the complete 2024/2025 series for $50
or select individual tickets for $15 each
Residents and Priority Waiting List members of OceanView at Falmouth and Cumberland Crossing by OceanView attend for free, and should reserve their seats in advance through OceanView.
For more information, please contact Opera Maine at (207) 879-7678 or [email protected]
All live performances are on Saturdays. Note varying start times of performances.
All Wednesday encore shows will play at 6:30 p.m.* (some theaters may vary)
MET HD:
Apple Cinemas
Maine:
Westbrook: 183 County Road, Westbrook
Saco IMAX: 779 Portland Road, Saco
New Hampshire:
Merrimack: 11 Executive Park Dr, Merrimack, Merrimack
Hooksett IMAX: 38 Cinemagic Way, Hooksett
Regal Fox Run: 45 Gosling Road, Newington, NH 03801
Other Theaters
Rockland Strand Theater, Rockland Maine
Following each Live in HD transmission, select cinemas may present additional encore (rebroadcast) screenings. Dates may vary.
U.S. Encore Schedule*
*Dates may vary at independent venues. Please check your local cinema listings for more information.