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Robinson Ballet's - The Nutcracker 2024
Performance
Next Date: Sat 11/30/2024 at 6:30 PM
The Grand Theater
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| Assigned Seating |
G 1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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2 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| On the Stanley Subaru Stage
Saturday, 6:30pm, Sunday, 2:00pm
Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker is an enchanting holiday tradition perfect for audiences of all ages. The story of Clara and her magical Christmas toy continues to inspire, and it is brought to magical life in this full production featuring the choreography of the Robinson Ballet.
$15 Adults, $10 Youth (12&under) Reserved Seating
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Frogtown: The Grinch 2024
Performance
Next Date: Fri 12/06/2024 at 6:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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| General Seating |
G 1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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2 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| On the Stanley Subaru Stage
Friday, 6:00pm, Saturday, 1:00pm
The Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers are back with their holiday hilarity and the great curmudgeon character, The Grinch!
$12 Adults, $8 Youth (12&under) General Admission
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Live Theatre: A Christmas Story the musical
Musical
Next Date: Fri 12/13/2024 at 7:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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6 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| On the Stanley Subaru Stage - Sponsored by H&R Block of Ellsworth & Bucksport
Directed by Nick Turner, Musical Direction by Stephanie Bradshaw
Based on the movie classic that runs round-the-clock on television every Christmas. Set in the 1940s in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana, the musical follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his quest for the Holy Grail of Christmas gifts—an Official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Rebuffed at every turn with a similar echoing response, Ralphie plots numerous schemes to achieve his desperate desire for the coveted BB gun. |
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Film: Lost On A Mountain In Maine
Onscreen
Next Date: Thu 12/26/2024 at 7:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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| General Seating |
PG 1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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4 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| The true story of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, who, after becoming lost in the rugged wilderness of northern Maine during the summer of 1939, grapples not only with his fight to survive, but with the broken relationship with his father whom he may never see again.
$5 General Admission |
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Maine's Own Comedian: Bob Marley
Onstage
Next Date: Fri 01/03/2025 at 8:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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3 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| Post-Holiday Shows
On the Stanley Subaru stage
Friday, January 3rd 8:00pm
Saturday, January 4th 5:30pm
Saturday, January 4th 8:00pm
Maine’s Own Comedian Bob Marley makes his return to the Stanley Subaru Stage at The Grand in Ellsworth January 3-4, 2025 – A Grand Tradition!
$39.50 Reserved Seating
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Live from the MET: Aida
Onscreen
Next Date: Sat 01/25/2025 at 1:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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3 Hrs, 10 Mins |
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1 Upcoming Date/Time |
| 1:00pm
Soprano Angel Blue makes her long-awaited Met role debut as the
Ethiopian princess torn between love and country, one of opera’s defining roles. Music
Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for the New Year’s Eve premiere of
Michael Mayer’s spectacular new staging, which brings audiences inside the towering
pyramids and gilded tombs of ancient Egypt with intricate projections and dazzling
animations. Mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, following her 2024 debut in Verdi’s La Forza
del Destino, is Aida’s Egyptian rival Amneris, sharing the role with Elīna Garanča, who
returns to the Met for the first time since 2020. Leading tenors Piotr Beczała and Brian
Jagde alternate as the soldier Radamès, who completes the greatest love triangle in
the repertory. The all-star cast also features baritones Quinn Kelsey and Amartuvshin
Enkhbat and bass-baritone Eric Owens as Amonasro and basses Dmitry Belosselskiy,
Alexander Vinogradov, and Morris Robinson as Ramfis. Christina Nilsson makes her Met
debut in the title role in March, and Alexander Soddy shares conducting duties.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 10 MINS |
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Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Maine - Ruddigore 2025
Performance
Next Date: Fri 03/07/2025 at 7:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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6 Upcoming Dates/Times |
| Directed by Deiran Manning
Friday, March 7 & 14 7:00pm, Saturday, March 8 & 15 2:00pm, Sunday, March 9 & 16 2:00pm
A jilted bride driven to madness, a baronet cursed to perform wicked deeds, a local guild of disgruntled professional bridesmaids, the village beauty held hostage by etiquette, the shy farmer she loves, the heroic sailor prepared to sacrifice friendship to win her hand, and ghosts! An ancient witch’s curse has condemned each heir of Ruddigore to commit a crime a day or perish in agony. Refusing to submit to this fate, the latest baronet of Ruddigore fakes his death and goes into hiding in the local village as timid farmer Robin Oakapple leaving his younger brother, Sir Despard, to shoulder the family curse. When his identity is betrayed, will the shy and honest Robin be able to stomach the family tradition of moustache-twirling villainy-for-life or will his exasperated ancestors return from the grave to haunt him? Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical take on Melodrama and the Victorian obsession with the supernatural, Ruddigore turns the gothic romance tropes of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Picture of Dorian Gray on their head in this zany comedy operetta that will delight the whole family.
$20 Adults, $12 Students, $8 Youth (12 & under) Reserved Seating
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Live from the MET: Fidelio Encore
Onscreen
Next Date: Sat 03/29/2025 at 1:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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2 Hrs, 35 Mins |
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1 Upcoming Date/Time |
| 1:00pm
Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise
Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of
tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the political prisoner Florestan, sharing the stage with
bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran bass René Pape as
the jailer Rocco, and soprano Ying Fang and tenor Magnus
Dietrich, in his company debut, as the young Marzelline and Jaquino. Bass Stephen Milling
sings the principled Don Fernando, and Susanna Mälkki conducts the Met’s striking
production, which finds modern-day parallels in Beethoven’s stirring paean to freedom.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 2 HRS 35 MINS
*recorded live March 15 |
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Live from the MET: Le Nozze Di Figaro
Onscreen
Next Date: Sat 04/26/2025 at 1:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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1 Hrs, 30 Mins |
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1 Upcoming Date/Time |
| 1:00pm
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading two
extraordinary casts in Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Bass-baritones
Michael Sumuel and Luca Pisaroni star as the clever valet Figaro, opposite sopranos
Olga Kulchynska and Rosa Feola as his betrothed, the wily maid Susanna. Baritone
Joshua Hopkins and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka alternate as the skirt-chasing Count,
sopranos Federica Lombardi and Jacquelyn Stucker in her Met debut trade off as his
anguished wife, and mezzo-sopranos Marianne Crebassa and Emily D’Angelo share the
role of the adolescent page Cherubino.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 30 MINS |
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Live from the MET: Salome
Onscreen
Next Date: Sat 05/17/2025 at 1:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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1 Hrs, 40 Mins |
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1 Upcoming Date/Time |
| 1:00pm
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances
of Strauss’s white-hot one-act tragedy, which receives its first new
production at the company in 20 years. Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera
directors, gives the biblical story—already filtered through the beautiful and strange
imagination of Oscar Wilde’s play—a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting rich
in symbolism and subtle shades of darkness and light. Headlining the new staging is
soprano Elza van den Heever as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, who demands
the head of Jochanaan, sung by celebrated baritone Peter Mattei. Tenor Gerhard Siegel
is Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod, with mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as
his wife, Herodias, and tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth. Derrick Inouye conducts two
performances in May.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 1 HRS 40 MINS |
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Live from the MET: IL Barbiere Di Siviglia
Onscreen
Next Date: Sat 05/31/2025 at 1:00 PM
The Grand Theater
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3 Hrs, 0 Mins |
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1 Upcoming Date/Time |
| 1:00pm
Rossini’s effervescent comedy retakes the stage in Bartlett Sher’s
madcap production. Two star mezzo-sopranos—Isabel Leonard and
Aigul Akhmetshina—headline a winning ensemble as the feisty heroine, Rosina, alongside high-flying tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Jack Swanson, in his Met debut, as her
secret beloved, Count Almaviva. Baritones Davide Luciano and Andrey Zhilikhovsky star
as Figaro, the infamous barber of Seville, with baritone Nicola Alaimo and bass-baritone
Peter Kálmán as Dr. Bartolo and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Don Basilio rounding out
the principal cast. Giacomo Sagrippanti conducts.
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS |
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