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What is Jazz? event set for tonight

What is jazz? It’s the original American popular music! It’s art and improvisation! It’s energetic and dance-able! Yes, jazz is all of these things, but it’s also so much more! Bring the whole family to learn all about the creation and evolution of this distinctly American musical genre ...

Opera House to show Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition opera transmissions to theaters around the world, returns for the 2021-22 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m. with Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. ...

Opera House launches podcast on the arts

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is creating a new podcast, Notes from the Aisle Seat! The biweekly podcast is produced and hosted by Tom Loughlin, a Western New York actor, director and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair emeritus of Theatre and Dance at the ...

Fredonia expands Mainstage Series with ‘New Works Now!’

The Department of Theatre and Dance at the State University of New York at Fredonia will open its 2021-22 Walter Gloor Mainstage Series in October with a brand new production titled “New Works Now!” Performance dates and times are Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 3 at 2 p.m. in ...

Opera House plans first live event this Saturday

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents its first in-theatre live performance event on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. with the incredible Ekstasis Duo presenting a new program of the music of underrepresented composers. Opera House Executive Director Rick Davis notes that “due ...

‘Swan Song’ up next at Opera House

The next film in the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center Cinema Series is the independent film “Swan Song.” It will be screened this Saturday, Sept. 4, and Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. Opera House Executive Director Rick Davis notes that “due to the increase in COVID ...