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| | Lake George Music Festival Preview
A selection of traditional classical pieces and new works by emerging composers, capturing the spirit of the festival’s diverse line-up.
Tickets: $40 | 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.
Tickets: $15 | Buy Tickets |
| | Gilded Melodies
A unique journey back to The Gilded Age with Dr. Christopher Brellochs; a program of 19th-century opera arias and fantasies for saxophone and piano, featuring music by Donizetti, Bellini, and more.
Tickets: $40 | Buy Tickets |
| | A Juneteenth Celebration: William James Knapp
Join music consultant to Historic Cherry Hill and HBO’s The Gilded Age Dr. Christopher Brellochs, baritone LayVon Scott and pianist Dr. Elizabeth Gerbi for an exploration of music of the Black experience in the Capital Region during the era, as told through William James Knapp’s music collection.
Tickets: $40 | Buy Tickets |
| | FILM: The Age of Innocence (1993)
Sembrich Film Series
New York aristocrat Newland Archer strains the intransigent mores of Gilded Age society when he falls for his fiancée's scandalous cousin. Martin Scorsese’s opulent rendering of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder.
Free Admission | Buy Tickets |
| | Seagle Festival Season Preview
A sampling of the festival’s exciting 2025 lineup: The Pirates of Penzance, Carmen, Mayo Bucker (a life interrupted) and Anything Goes.
Tickets: $40 | Buy Tickets |
| | Cécilia Celtic Trio
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays
Cécilia's blend of traditional Celtic and Quebecois music on accordion, piano, and fiddle has an undeniably fresh and high-spirited sound sure to be a toe-tapping opening to our World Music series.
Tickets: $35 | Buy Tickets |
| | FILM: ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007)
Sembrich Film Series
Go backstage with the original casts of Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo and Caroline, and Change in the race for the coveted 2004 Best Musical Tony Award.
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| | Riding the Rails: Studio Talk & Tea
Benefit Event
Join The Sembrich's Caleb Eick for an entertaining glimpse into the Gilded Age through Marcella Sembrich's 1909 transcontinental concert tour. From rail strikes to lost jewelry, this entertaining talk, chronicling a year in the career of the famous diva, is sure to delight and shine new light on the life on Madame Sembrich. Followed by an elegant Gilded Age tea.
Tickets: $75 | Buy Tickets |
| | “In the Good Old Summertime” with Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble
Outdoor Promenade Concert
This Vermont-based chamber chorus will perform sparkling a cappella arrangements of works from composers such as Stephen Foster and Amy Beach, to Bowery waltzes and comic Gilded Age numbers.
Tickets: $45 | Buy Tickets |
| | Spira Piano Quartet
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series
This newly formed chamber ensemble from the Albany area makes its Sembrich debut in an exciting, wide-ranging program, including piano quartets by Gabriel Fauré, Gustav Mahler and Bohuslav Martinů, as well as an arrangement of a Mozart Adagio by Arvo Pärt.
Tickets: $55 | Buy Tickets |
| | FILM: Ragtime (1981)
Sembrich Film Series
Milos Forman’s panoramic depiction of Gilded Age New York, based on E.L. Doctorow’s historical novel. A prelude to our July 23rd event, “The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.”
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| | Seagle Festival: Monkey and Francine in the City of Tigers
Seagle Festival Children's Opera
Join music consultant to Historic Cherry Hill and HBO’s The Gilded Age Dr. Christopher Brellochs, baritone LayVon Scott and pianist Dr. Elizabeth Gerbi for an exploration of music of the Black experience in the Capital Region during the era, as told through William James Knapp’s music collection.
Free Admission - Reservation Encouraged | Buy Tickets |
| | A Latin American Musical Tour
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays
In a kaleidoscope of rhythm and melody, this season’s Flonzaley Resident Artists usher us through a colorful playlist resounding with music of Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. 2024 Flonzaley Resident Artists.
Tickets: $35 | Buy Tickets |
| | Undiscovered Gems of The Gilded Age
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series
Pianist Ahmed Alom, mezzo-soprano Rosario Armas and violinist Ruben Rengel pay tribute to our season theme with a selection of rarely heard gems from the Gilded Age, including a set of songs by Sembrich Colleague Amy Beach. Also on the program, music by Diamond Point summer resident Henry Holden Huss. 2024 Flonzaley Resident Artists.
Tickets: $55 | Buy Tickets |
| | FILM: A Real Pain (2024)
Sembrich Film Series
Two mismatched cousins, David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Golden Globe-winner Ciaran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. Filmed on location in Warsaw and Lublin and featuring music by Chopin performed by Israeli Canadian pianist Tzvi Erez.
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| | The Gilded Age: The Hit Series & The Era That Inspired It
Entertainment historian John Kenrick returns with behind-the-scenes stories and some of the real-life dramas behind Julian Fellowes’ HBO series The Gilded Age.
Tickets: $30 | Buy Tickets |
| | Jomion & The Uklos - Youth Drum Workshop
This family band from Benin, West Africa will lead a drum workshop in the morning and a full performance in the evening, sure to be a festive celebration of Afro-pop and enticing vocal harmonies. At Rogers Park in Bolton Landing.
While this workshop is geared towards younger audiences, any who wish to participate are welcome!
Free Admission - Reservation Encouraged | Buy Tickets |
| | Jomion & The Uklos - Community Concert
This family band from Benin, West Africa will lead a drum workshop in the morning and a full performance in the evening, sure to be a festive celebration of Afro-pop and enticing vocal harmonies. At Rogers Park in Bolton Landing.
Free Admission - Reservation Encouraged | Buy Tickets |
| | Members of The Philadelphia Orchestra
Alfred Z. Solomon Masterwork Series
Violinist Philip Kates is joined by his colleagues from The Philadelphia Orchestra and pianist Michael Clement for a program of Gilded Age masterworks, including music by Amy Beach and Antonín Dvořák.
Tickets: $55 | Buy Tickets |
| | Lakeside with Altissimo Arts
Outdoor Promenade Concert
Philadelphia’s innovative musical troupe, featuring saxophones, piano and viola, brings a varied program of concert favorites – from Mussorgsky to Freddie Mercury, to the shores of Lake George.
Tickets: $45 | Buy Tickets |
| | FILM: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Sembrich Film Series
A musical romance written and directed by Jacques Demy with a beautiful through-composed score by Michel Legrand highlighted by the iconic love song “I Will Wait for You.”
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| | Skye Consort & Emma Björling
Touba Family Foundation World Music Wednesdays
Presenting an assortment of whiling polskas, groovy reels, passionate love songs, breathtaking hymns, and original compositions, this ensemble will wow with their “trans-Atlantic Chamber Folk.”
Tickets: $35 | Buy Tickets |
| | GALA: A Gilded Age Musicale
2025 Gala Performance
The curtain descends on our summer season with an elegant recreation of a Gilded Age vocal recital featuring the dazzling Polish Canadian coloratura soprano Karoline Podolak joined by pianist Michael Clement.
Marcella Sembrich’s lakeside studio serves as the setting for an evening of songs and arias from opera and operettas of the era, including several virtuosic selections from Sembrich’s own repertoire, including “Sempre libera” from Verdi’s La Traviata, the aria with which Sembrich concluded her operatic career. The performance will be followed by an opulent reception.
Honorary Committee: $275
Tickets: $175 | Buy Tickets |