3rd Sunday of every month | 2:00 PM | $20

La Scala Opera House

Rosendale Theatre in association with Emerging Picture’s Opera in Cinema is proud to announce its 2011 – 2012 opera season: nine exciting High Definition (HD) opera experiences sung in their original languages with English subtitles from September until May on the third Sunday of every month. Every opera production originates from Europe’s major opera houses. Show time is always 2:00 pm but, for early arrivals, at 1:45 pm Ulster County’s Maureen Brooks will give a short pre-curtain talk on the featured opera. All tickets are $20 and they can be bought at the door. Participating opera houses include London’s Royal Opera House, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceau. Some of the world’s best singers, orchestras, directors, designers and beloved composers are showcased in these opera cinema experiences where the viewer has the sensation of actually sitting in Europe’s most famous opera houses. But, once the curtain goes up, cameras take Rosendale audiences where the audiences sitting in the Old World opera house could never go. Edward Schoelwer, the coordinator for the HD opera series for Rosendale Theatre, says, “We’ve been delighted by the great audience support for the opera during our “trial and error stage” and look forward to seeing our regulars as well as making new friends.”

Maureen Brooks, a retired attorney, is a self-taught operaphile and “Ring Nut.” She teaches courses in opera for SUNY New Paltz’s Lifetime Learning Institute and she will be present at every Opera Sunday.

Entering its second year as a not-for-profit, volunteer run, center for film and all the performing arts and education, the historic Rosendale Theatre, run by the Rosendale Theatre Collective (RTC), is dedicated to enhancing the cultural life and economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County.

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2:00 PM | $20 | IL TABARRO / SUOR ANGELICA / GIANNI SCHICCHI | Three one-act operas | From the Royal Opera House | Sung in Italian with English subtitles | Estimated running time: 225 minutes, including two intermissions

This is The Royal Opera’s first complete presentation of Puccini’s Il trittico since 1965. Leading director Richard Jones staged his witty, darkly comic realization of Gianni Schicchi for The Royal Opera in 2007, and here he completes the trio. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano will conduct. Il trittico (‘the triptych’), unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, in 1918, represented an operatic departure. Instead of a single evening-length narrative, Puccini offered three contrasting one-act works. Il trittico reached Covent Garden in 1920, but has rarely been performed there complete.

2:00 PM | $20 | Running time: Act 1: 95 minutes, Intermission: 20 minutes; Act 2: 60 minutes | Total running time: 175 min
A comic opera in two acts From Teatro Regio di Parma Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Rossini’s charming comedy The Barber of Seville is sure to leave you singing “Figaro, Figaro, Figaro!” – just one of this opera’s many memorable tunes. A truly Italianate spectacle, performed on the classic stage of the Teatro Regio di Parma in Parma, Italy. Starring Luca Salsi as the rapscallion barber Figaro and Ketevan Kemoklidze as the clever beauty Rosina.

2:00 PM | $20 | Sung in Italian with English subtitles 138 minutes plus one intermission

A new production from the Netherlands Opera
Recorded live at The Amsterdam Music Theatre, Nov & Dec 2009

Puccini’s operatic take on the Wild West is sprinkled with Hollywood glitz in this splashy production from the Netherlands Opera. The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West) stars blond bombshell soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the cowgirl Minnie.

2:00 pm | $20 | An opera in three acts From the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain | 200 minutes plus 2 intermissions | Sung and spoken in German with English subtitles

The Abduction from the Seraglio features upbeat songs, virtuosic singing, and a happy ending – but with classic Mozartean twists and turns. This modern yet timeless production stars German coloratura soprano Diana Damrau as the lovely maiden Constanze, one of her signature roles.