These performances will be on-screen at Orcas Center in April

||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER |||

Get the best seat in the house for Orcas Center’s on-screen offerings from the Metropolitan Opera and National Theatre Live this April. Filmed live in HD, these on-screen events feature a diverse sampling of the world’s best performers at the height of their careers – for a fraction of the cost!

Join us for these great events coming up in April:

Sunday, April 9 at 12pm: Lohengrin from The Met Opera. Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick
Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Soprano Tamara Wilson is the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, going head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.

Saturday, April 15 at 12pm: The Crucible from NT Live. A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lyndsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, designed by Tony Award-winner Es Devlin (The Lehman Trilogy).

Ticket prices range from $5-$47, with a “pay what you can” option to suit your personal budget. Call 360-376-2281 ext 1, or visit www.OrcasCenter.org for tickets and more information.