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| | Festival Artists from Opera Saratoga
An evening of standards from Così fan tutte & Guys and Dolls from one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious opera training programs. | Buy Tickets |
| | Young Performers Showcase
Celebrate some of our region's most promising young artists in an afternoon of vocal and instrumental music, in both classical and popular styles. | Buy Tickets |
| | An Afternoon with Vincent Caruso
The host of Sirius XM’s Symphony Hall discusses his journey through classical music and radio. With guest performer, classical guitarist Humberto Flores.
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| | A Juneteenth Celebration with Anthony Davis
The Pulitzer prize-winning composer is joined by soprano Christine Jobson, bass-baritone Carl DuPont, and pianist Alan Johnson for a performance of selections from his operas, Amistad, Tania, The Central Park Five and X —The Life and Times of Malcolm X. | Buy Tickets |
| | The Magic Flute (1975)
Ingmar Bergman’s enchanting adaptation of Mozart’s beloved opera, presented to celebrate the restoration of Marcella Sembrich’s “Queen of the
Night” costume.
Sembrich Film Series | Buy Tickets |
| | Seagle Festival Season Preview
A sampling of the festival’s exciting 2024 lineup: Brigadoon, Don Giovanni, Cold Mountain and Sweeney Todd. | Buy Tickets |
| | Classical Splendor
Rising classical music stars Ruben Rengel
and pianist Ahmed Alom perform music
from Sembrich’s realm and beyond. An
evening of masterworks including sonatas
by Brahms and Poulenc, Liszt’s Paraphrase
on a theme from Rigoletto and selections
from Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series | Buy Tickets |
| | The Opera House (2017)
On the centennial of Sembrich's pink stucco teaching studio, a documentary that chronicles the creation of another great structure, the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. | Buy Tickets |
| | A Night at the Museum
An exclusive evening that offers a glimpse into the Gilded Age life of Marcella Sembrich by showcasing a selection of her treasured and rarely displayed possessions, including a diamond bracelet from the Czar of Russia and the famous Queen of the Night gown she wore at the Metropolitan Opera opening of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Followed by an elegant lakeside reception.
Centennial Benefit | Buy Tickets |
| | Chopin...and all that jazz...
Nahre Sol, a Juilliard graduate and renowned pianist with over one million online followers, joins World Champion accordionist Cory Pesaturo for this rare public performance! | Buy Tickets |
| | Harmonia Ensemble
Soulful music from the heart of Eastern Europe, performed with passionate virtuosity by this Cleveland-based folk ensemble.
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays | Buy Tickets |
| | Peter and the Wolf with WindSync
This delightful performance for the entire family shares a tale of animal friends and bravery, introducing five wind instruments of the orchestra. Based on the classic story by Sergei Prokofiev and complete with costumes and choreography, WindSync’s unique and interactive approach to musical appreciation is sure to delight kids of all ages!
At Rogers Park in Bolton Landing | Buy Tickets |
| | WindSync Woodwind Quintet
Versatile and vibrant, WindSync “play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun” (All About the Arts). A program of standards and original arrangements.
2024 Flonzaley Resident Ensemble | Buy Tickets |
| | Fitzacrraldo (1983)
An epic adventure about an opera loving madman who attempts to build an opera house in the jungles of Brazil. “One of the great visions of the cinema” — Roger Ebert
Sembrich Film Series | Buy Tickets |
| | Seagle Festival: Dragon’s Breath
A charming original children’s opera by composer EvanMack, with a libretto by Joshua McGuire, exploring themes of coping with anger and other difficulties faced by young people. | Buy Tickets |
| | From Steam Launch to Stucco: The Story of The Sembrich Studio
Join us for a fascinating look at how Marcella Sembrich’s century-old teaching studio came to be built, the origins of “Pine Hill” – built for Sembrich’s daughter-in-law across the road from the studio, and the Lake George architectural landscape in 1924. Presented by J.B. Clancy, an architect and artist with deep ties to the Adirondacks.
Followed by a tour and reception at Pine Hill. | Buy Tickets |
| | Composers Sembrich Knew
Violinist Philip Kates and his colleagues from The Philadelphia Orchestra present a chamber concert of exquisite works by Puccini, Kreisler, Rachmaninoff, and Brahms.
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series | Buy Tickets |
| | Jomion and the Uklos
A festive celebration of Afro-pop, driving vodun rhythms, enticing vocal harmonies and Caribbean styles performed by three blood-brothers from the coast of West Africa.
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays | Buy Tickets |
| | Lost Voice (2024)
Premiere screening of an impressionistic film biography of Marcella Sembrich by Polish filmmaker Radka Franczak, a prizewinning graduate of the prestigious Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing in Warsaw.
Sembrich Film Series - US Premiere Event | Buy Tickets |
| | Violinist Kinga Augustyn
The acclaimed violinist returns to The Sembrich in a program of Polish masterworks — and a rendering of the de Beriot concerto that Sembrich herself performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1884.
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series | Buy Tickets |
| | ArcoStrum - Violin & Guitar Duo
An exhilarating mix of music from all corners of the world—including works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Bach, de Falla, Piazzolla and Hai-huai. Winner of the 2023 Concert Artists Guild Competition. | Buy Tickets |
| | At That Hour, Act One - A Chamber Opera by Richard Wargo
A shared love of classical music brings together two unlikely souls in this Joyce-inspired chamber opera written expressly for The Sembrich studio. In partnership with the Hyperion Quartet, The Seagle Festival and the American Center for New Works Works Development. Also on the program, works by Haydn and Beethoven.
World Premiere Event | Buy Tickets |
| | Falling for Figaro (2021)
A romantic comedy about a successful fund manager who gives up her career in the corporate world to follow her dream of becoming an opera singer.
Sembrich Film Series | Buy Tickets |
| | Cantrip
Featuring border pipes, fiddle, and guitar, this energetic Scottish ensemble will perform a mix of driving tunes and vocal harmonies sure to create an uplifting close to our World Music series.
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays | Buy Tickets |
| | Gala: Chopin by Candlelight
We bring down the curtain on our centennial summer with an elegant candlelit evening and a salon concert featuring music by one of the world’s most beloved composers, Frederic Chopin.
Piano virtuoso Christopher Johnson performs a selection of some of the most enduring works by this “Poet of the Piano,” exploring the master’s full range of expression, from the brilliant and heroic to the poetic. The performance will be followed by a Parisian style lakeside reception, accompanied by the string duo of Amanda and Jonathan Brin. | Buy Tickets |