Low Lily is the colloquial name for the Trout Lily, a wildflower that grows in the northeast and in regions further afield. Like its namesake, Low Lily the band has been blooming across the musical landscape since 2015. Simmons (guitar, banjo & vocals), Cohen (guitar, mandolin & vocals), and Sexton (fiddle & vocals) blend their […]
The Met: Live in HD season kicks off at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center with Mozart’s satirical comedy of fickle young love, one of the composer’s most sublime creations. Phelim McDermott’s “colorful, inventive” (The New York Times) staging, inspired by Coney Island in the 1950s, sets the uproarious story at a boardwalk […]
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) propelled the stunt man and mechanic from his humble beginnings working in his family’s junkyard into instant stardom with its genre defining chase scenes, guerrilla approach to filmmaking, and car crashes the likes of which had never before been seen. Made on a budget of only $150,000, it grossed over […]
Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists return to Live at the Met at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center for Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Following past triumphs in many of Verdi’s signature baritone roles, Quinn Kelsey is the […]
Captured live at London’s Vaudeville Theatre, SIX the Musical Live! brings audiences an electrifying cinematic event starring the six original West End Queens, each returning to the roles that helped ignite a global phenomenon. It will be screened at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Ars Center. Seen by more than 3.5 million people worldwide, the Tony […]
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty’s life is turned upside down when a young man walks into her pub claiming that he’s killed his father. Instead of being shunned, the killer becomes a local hero […]
Part of the Fredonia Jazz Festival, Presented in Partnership with the Fredonia Jazz Society As an accomplished composer, esteemed saxophonist, vocalist, and unique interpreter of the jazz tradition, Camille Thurman is quickly becoming one of the leading standard bearers of the art form, making a considerable and dynamic contribution to the legacy of jazz while […]
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center has partnered with the State University of New York at Fredonia’s School of Music to present a series of free-admission early evening […]
Fiddle tunes, folk songs and fancy footwork are the featured fare from this acoustic duet, who are longtime Opera House favorites! John Kirk is the primary vocalist and instrumental wizard […]
Sacred, scandalous, and irresistibly alluring, Saint-Saëns’s spectacular take on the biblical hero of legendary strength and the seductive Philistine whose beauty overpowers him returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House […]
Come celebrate the holiday season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center with the Tower Brass Quintet, as the popular group brings a family-friendly program of carols and […]
Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center in a new Live at the Met staging by celebrated British director Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė’s will make her company debut […]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is one of the world’s favorite artists; a founding member of the Impressionist movement and a constantly evolving artist, he is unmatched at depicting human connection. The National […]
Following his smash-hit company debut with The Hours, composer Kevin Puts returns to the Met with his Pulitzer Prize-winning first opera, inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with […]
Following her radiant performance in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette – which garnered raves for “high notes that spun like liquid gold … Sierra touched the operatic firmament” (The New York Times) – superstar soprano Nadine Sierra takes on another alluring French heroine, the irresistible title character of Massenet’s passionate drama. It will be transmitted live […]
One of today’s leading dramatic tenors, Brian Jagde takes on the tour-de-force title role of what many consider the ultimate Italian opera when Live at the Met returns to the […]
A profound philosophical meditation on compassion and reconciliation, this transcendent rendering of a medieval knight’s heroic quest for the Holy Grail returns to the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts […]
