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The gold standard in opera and live theatre comes to Orcas Island with this season’s On Screen series.
Running from now until June, you can view a diverse sampling of the world’s best performers at the height of their careers in productions from The Met: Live in HD and National Theatre Live. These on-screen events give you the best seat in the house from the comfort of your own island. In December, Orcas Center is showing three
performances: Arabella, The Magic Flute and Life of Pi.
Met Live in HD, Arabella: Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and
enchantment of 19th-century Vienna to the Met stage in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Compelling soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her role debut as Arabella, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Soprano Louise Alder makes her Met debut as her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny is the dashing count who sweeps Arabella off her feet.
Met Live in HD, The Magic Flute: Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. The Met made history in December 2006 when it
presented its first Live in HD transmission to movie theaters worldwide — the abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. This holiday season, the opera returns in a special encore presentation.
National Theatre Live, Life of Pi: Wednesday, Dec. 17 at 7 p.m. Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a
unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive? Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is brought to life in a breathtaking new way.
Ticket prices range from $12-$65 with an additional $2 ticketing fee. Tickets are available online at
www.OrcasCenter.org by phone at 360-376-2281 ext 100, or in-person at the Box Office an hour prior to the
performance.
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