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Met Live season begins with ‘La Sonnambula’

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, returns for the 2025-26 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m., with a new production of Vincenzo ...

Billy Joel tribute band coming to Opera House

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center will present “The Billy Joel Tribute Experience” with Pat Farrell and the Cold Spring Harbor Band in concert on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The concert celebrates 50 years since Billy Joel performed in Fredonia in Dods Hall on the State ...

Hamilton brings together new collection of oboe etudes

A new compilation, “12 (Soon-To-Be Famous) Studies for Oboe,” by Professor Sarah Hamilton of the State University of New York at Fredonia, has been published. The collection of newly composed etudes introduces blues, funk, Latin rhythms, multiphonics, harmonics, glissandi, complex meters ...

Area author celebrates sixth book

Local author Rebecca Cuthbert will celebrate her sixth traditionally published book at 2 p.m. Saturday at Downtown Brew in Fredonia. This is a public event and all are welcome. There will be readings, cookies, drink specials, an open mic and more. “The Hauntings Back Home” is a collection of ghost stories with two special guests: author Jonathan Gensler contributes the foreword and the 13th bonus story, and local debut author Beatrice Sheehan, daughter of Fredonia residents Mary Woo and Michael Sheehan, is spotlighted at the beginning of the collection with her spooky poem ...

“The Addams Family” comes to Main Street Studios

Tickets are on sale for Main Street Studios gleefully ghoulish musical production of "The Addams Family." Main Street Studios continues to deliver high quality stage productions to the area with a blend of entertainment professionals, local grade school, high school, college and community ...

Alumni return for concert with Air Force ensembles

Two members of the United States Air Force Band Singing Sergeants are returning to where their musical aspirations took flight. Technical Sgt. Michael Aiello (baritone) and Master Sgt. Hillary Grobe (alto) are graduates of the School of Music at the State University of New York at ...