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Today, an annual Good Friday Fish Fry will be held at the American Legion Post 47 at 5 p.m. Enjoy the annual Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Havre de Grace Recreation Committee, at noon Saturday, at Concord Point Lighthouse Park. - Despite its classy sounding name, the Alamedean Light Opera Company in Baltimore was little more than an amateur theater group. Composed mostly of wannabe opera singers, some with damn fine voices, the company produced standard fare operettas at the old Poly high school in the '40s and '50s.
- The upcoming production of “Porgy and Bess” by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir is back by popular demand.
- Besides the rich assortment of holiday concerts this month, there’s also a holiday opera to consider placing on your Christmas calendar. The Columbia-based Opus Concert Theatre will be performing Gian Carlo Menotti’s one-act opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at Slayton House Theatre.
- The Bell Foundry building in Station North that once houses dozens of artists and performers before it was condemned last year was sold to a developer that has been upgrading old urban buildings into boutique apartments.
- A presentation of Leonard Bernstein's controversial "Mass" will feature more than 500 performers from the Peabody Institute, Morgan State University and other Baltimore organizations, with Marin Alsop conducting, at New Psalmist Baptist Church.
- Meet the Baltimore area’s leading voices in business, activism, research and more.
- The Havre de Grace City Council gave its permission for Mayor William Martin to reach an agreement with the Susquehanna Hose Co. that will allow the Opera House to use the second floor of the adjoining firehouse.
- In mid-August, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra embarked on their first international tour in 13 years. They visited England, Scotland and Ireland our the course of nine days.
- Scottfield Theatre Company is the brainchild of Becky Titelman, a Harford County native who founded the company along with two of her colleagues: director, producer and actor Allan Herlinger and Chuck Bowden, who handles technical aspects of productions.
- On Saturday, August 4, 2018, the Cultural Center at the Opera House (Opera House) will celebrate its first anniversary with a daylong celebration.
- Performing Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "The Mikado," with its dated stereotypes of the Japanese characters, now causes controversy in some cities, something Baltimore's Young Victorian Theatre Company seeks to avoid as it prepares to stage the work.
- Review of Columbia Orchestra's upcoming symphonic pops concert on April 14-15.
- Eminent bass-baritone Eric Owens will give his first Baltimore recital, presented by Shriver Hall Concert Series.
- “Quartet” continues through Feb. 4 at the Colonial Players, 108 East St., Annapolis. For tickets call the box office at 410-268-7373 or go to thecolonialplayers.org.
- Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe will open a new vocal recital series at Baltimore's Modell-Lyric Opera House with a program full of new and vintage American music.
- Preview of Howard County Concert Orchestra's "La Dolce Vita!" concert on Jan. 14.
- Mezzo soprano appeared with the old Baltimore Opera Company and studied with Rosa Ponselle
- A look back at the top stories of 2017 in southeastern Harford and western Cecil counties.
- Jeanne F. Blair, a saleswoman and opera singer who performed with the old Baltimore Civic Opera Co., died Dec. 6 from lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 89.
- Baltimore Concerto Opera delivered a sensitive performance of Massenet's "Werther" with tenor Brian Cheney and mezzo-soprano Chrystal E. Williams, conducted and accompanied at the piano by Rachelle Jonck.
- 'Little Women' opens Annapolis Opera's season on a high note.
- Although staged opera won't return to Baltimore's Modell Lyric Performing Arts Center anytime soon, three opera stars are due there in concerts during the second half of the 2017-2018 season.
- Baltimore Symphony principal guest conductor Markus Stenz leads orchestra excerpts from Wagner's "Parsifal" on program that also features concertmaster Jonathan Carney in Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy."
- James M. "Jamie" Scott, a costumer designer whose work was featured on both the stage and in opera, died Sept. 20 from liver cancer at Bebee Medical Center in Lewes, Del. He was 56.
- A preview performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" at Baltimore's Hippodrome reveals worthy, musically rich sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera."
- A brand new drama company is preparing to make its debut at the refurbished Cultural Center at the Opera House in Havre de Grace. Scottfield Theatre Company will present “Tuck Everlasting, the Music
- "Love Never Dies," the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera," heads to Baltimore on the way to official start of its national tour.
- This has not been a banner year for most inhabitants of Earth, and the idea of blasting off and relocating to another planet grows more appealing each
- Best bets for classical music performances during the fall season.
- Profile of the Tidewater Players, who return to the Havre de Grace Opera House this week.
- Two years after construction began, the Havre de Grace Opera House has re-opened with a week of festivities that end Sunday.
- The Havre de Grace Opera House will have its opening week in August. The Aegis gets a behind-the-scenes tour Sunday as renovation work wraps up.
- The new adaptation, titled "Carmen — Vive la Liberte (Long Live Freedom)" by Bizet, Merimee, Cantrelle, will be performed on June 11 and 18 at 3 p.m., at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center.
- Columbia’s Colleen Daly balances family with a thriving opera career
- Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Malcolm Martineau offered their brilliant, expanded version of a Schumann song recital for Shriver Hall Concert Series.
- Stellar mezzo-soprano Susan Graham will make her Baltimore debut for Shriver Hall Concert Series with pianist Malcolm Martineau in an unusual program built around a Schumann song cycle about a woman's life and love.
- Baltimore Concert Opera presents Rossini's infrequently encountered "Semiramide" featuring Opera Delaware cast.
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Columbia Pro Cantare music director Frances Motyca Dawson has done a lot of music reflecting her Czech heritage over the years and other Eastern European co
- The renovations of the Havre de Grace Opera House are nearly complete, and the facility is slated to open in June and be managed by the Havre de Grace Arts Collective.
- Peabody Chamber Opera presents one-act works by composers Errollyn Wallen, Thomas Whitman and Jonathan Holland about women who are, in one way or another, left in the dark.
- Harold J. Stern, a beloved piano teacher and chorister who had been associated with several Baltimore churches, died Jan. 25 from complications of prostate cancer at Brightview Senior Living in Towson. He was 87.
- German conductor Johannes Debus, French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet make Baltimore Symphony debuts.
- Artistic Director Aran Keating talks about the nonprofit opera company's quest for a new space for BROS's raucous and imaginative productions.
- A look at three organizations fueling the increasingly vibrant arts scene in Annapolis: Annapolis Opera, Annapolis Shakespeare Company and Annapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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Taneytown
In Taneytown, an opera house used to provide residents with a hub for entertainment, said George Naylor, a longtime resident who helpe
- A commentary on Lyric Opera Baltimore and the prospects for professional, fully staged productions in the city.
- Dr. Robert T. "Bob" Singleton, a pioneering cardiologist, World War II veteran and opera lover who served for 25 years as director of the cardiovascular laboratory at the University of Maryland Hospital, died of gastrointestinal bleeding Sept. 12 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
- Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre continues its 50th anniversary season with a sublime production of "Rent," a play by the late Jonathan Larson that is now
- Lyric Opera Baltimore closes its season with a vividly sung production of Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette."
