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2019 WINTER series

Elements of Nature:
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EARTH


​Tuesday afternoons 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
January 8 -  February 12, 2019
FESTIVAL INN  (in the Guthrie Room)
1144 Ontario St., Stratford, Ontario
A series of films, live performances, and lectures

January 8
SHADOWS IN PARADISE
a documentary
By 1939, with the rise of fascism in Germany, 30,000 intellectuals and artists had been either exiled from or had chosen to leave Europe.  Many of the greatest minds of the 20th century were sent into exile in the United States.  Their immigration briefly transformed Southern California and other parts of America into important centres of world culture.
program sponsored by
Diana Shelestynsky
​Joanne McArthur
January 15
NIGHTS FROM THE ALHAMBRA
introduced by Loreena McKennitt
This concert was recorded live in the Medieval Moorish palace in Granada, Spain, where the Moors settled and ruled between the early 8th and late 15th centuries.
It is an outstanding celebration of mixed cultures reflected in the music and in the instruments used, including the oud, lyra, tabla, Celtic Bouzouki, Uillean pipes, bodhrån, hurdy-gurdy, kanoun, accordion, harp, piano, percussion, strings, guitar and electric bass.
program sponsored by
Karen Mychayluk-Wilson
Ann Reynolds
January 22 & 29
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Gioachino Rossini
We continue in Spain with Rossini’s much-loved opera buffa from 1819.  Here we see and hear the essence of Italian opera with its commedia dell’arte traditions, blended with the Spanish emphasis on rhythm and form.  The result is laughter and vocal acrobatics!  The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles.
programs sponsored by
Anonymous donor
February 5 & 12
DIE TOTE STADT  (The Dead City)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold

introduced by Andrew MacDonald
This opera by the 23-year-old German exile is written in the style of late romanticism, and received its premiere in the wake of WWI.  It represents a renewal of life and hope through the redemption of its conflicted anti-hero. The opera is sung in German with English subtitles.
programs sponsored by
Susan Tamblyn
BOOK STAGE - Manfred and Kathy Meurer
Series Sponsors:
Kevin Larson and Rebecca Reeve

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Ticket Prices

​Series: $50 *
Single sessions: $10 each
All tickets include light refreshments


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Loreena McKennitt
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
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