OPERAS, BALLETS + PLAYS
A calendar of international, full-length performances, projected in high-definition, shown at
nearby movie theaters and on public television
Prepared monthly by Dick Joslin for Cambridge At Home members, 8/26/2015
Sun Sep 6
Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Metropolitan Opera,
NYC, w/Marcelo Alverez starring in both operas, Eva-Mari Westbroek, Patricia
Racette, WGBH-TV, Channel 2, 1:00 PM. (3hr)
Sun Sep 20
Puccini’s “La Boheme,” Royal Opera, London, w/Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja,
Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, 10:00 AM. (2hr 55min)
Thu Sep 24
George Farquhar’s comedy, “The Beaux’ Stratagem,” National Theatre, London,
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7:00PM. (3hr)
Thu Sep 24
Prokofiev’s ballet ”Romeo and Juliet,” San Francisco Ballet, Cinema de lux
Dedham, Revere Showcase Cinema, 7:00 PM. (3hr)
Sat Oct 3
Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” live, Metropolitan Opera, NYC, w/Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri
Hvorostovsky, AMC Assembly Row Somerville, AMC Burlington Cinema, Cinema
de lux Dedham, 12:55 PM. (3hr 10min)
Wed Oct 7
Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” Met Opera, w/Yonghoon Lee, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, AMC
Assembly Row Somerville, AMC Burlington Cinema, Cinema de lux Dedham, 6:30
PM. (3hr 10min)
Thu Oct 8
Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” Met Opera, AMC Burlington, 1:00 PM. (3hr 10min)
Thu Oct 15
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” National Theatre, London, w/Benedict Cumberbatch.
AMC Burlington Cinema 10, Coolidge Corner Theatre, 7:00 PM (4hr)
(To be replayed at Coolidge Corner Theatre, Thu, Oct 29, and Thu, Dec 3)
Please check with the theater before you go. Some performances are sold out ahead of time.
Reserved seat tickets are at AMC Assembly Row Somerville, AMC Burlington, and for some
seats at Legacy Place Dedham. Elsewhere seats are not reserved, so arrive early.
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Medici.TV
For free you can enjoy hundreds of full simulcast broadcasts-a-year of live classical music
performances including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, etc., on your home computer
at http://www.medici.tv/ The website, headquartered in Paris, offers live performances from
well-known summer festivals like Salzburg, Aspen, Aix-en-Provence, as well as year-round from
Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Paris Opera, and American artists and orchestras on
tour, etc. Following such live performances, they are available for replay, again for free, for
several weeks. A subscription ($11.01/mo, or $101.15/yr) gives you access to their complete
catalogue of 1500 performances. Although easily available on the internet, apparently there is
a way to connect it to special t.v. sets such as Samsung Smart TV’s. (If any reader successfully
connects Medici.tv to their television set, please let this writer know and I will share your set-up
system with our readers.)
Theaters:
AMC Assembly Row 12, 395 Artisan Way, Somerville, 617/440-4192. This new theater is
located in the new, large Assembly Row shopping center located on North side of Somerville,
off Route 28, abutting the Mystic River. The theater is adjacent to the popular new Legoland. A
giraffe stands on the sidewalk corner between the two. Free parking is in large lots and in a
large five-story garage whose entrance is just beyond the theater. Assembly Station, on the
Orange Subway Line, is at the edge of the Shopping Center. Reserved seats are $24.
AMC Burlington Cinema 10, 20 South Avenue, Burlington. 781/229-1931. Ample, free parking
in the lot in front. Reserved tickets are $25
Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, 617/734-2501, Tickets are $20.
http://www.coolidge.org. Metered parking in the lot behind the theater. Free on-street
parking after 8:00 PM and on Sundays.
Showcase Cinema de Lux, Legacy Place Mall, Dedham, exit 15A off I-95 (Route 128). 781/3262100. Tickets are $25. Free parking in open lot and in the garage attached to the theater.
Revere Showcase Cinema Lux, 565 Squire Road, Revere, on the far (West) side of the rotary at
intersection of Routes 1 and 60. 781/286-1660. Tickets are $25. Large, free parking lot.
If you would like to regularly receive the monthly update of this calendar, by either email or
regular mail, just phone the CAH office, 617/864-1715, and request it.
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