Festival Finale: A Journey Into the Light

Our 2021 Festival Finale is a fitting testament to the trials and tribulations of the past 18 months, a collective journey of reflection — and now rejoicing. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs his groundbreaking exploration of the Mass woven through Western European, African American, and 21st-century traditions. As the grand finale, the Brentano String Quartet and cellist Paul Watkins perform Schubert’s profound Cello Quintet — one of the most inspiring chamber works ever composed.

Reed College, Kaul Auditorium
Saturday, 7/24 • 7:30 pm PT
Sunday, 7/25 • 4:00 pm PT

Hal’s all grown up! The Dauphin mocks Hal with tennis balls. War starts between England and France. Meanwhile, Falstaffe’s dead, so Pistoll takes over. Buddies Bardolph and Nym get hanged for stealing, and Pistoll is force-fed a leek.
Henry wins the war, but must now woo a wife. In French.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Shipwreck, romance, treason, revenge, spirits, clowns, song, and dance create a perfect storm of fantasy. Years ago, Prospero and daughter were shipwrecked on an island. Twelve years later, a “storm” brings their enemies. With the help of sprite Ariel, Prospero manipulates plots, bringing them happily together before giving up magic.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

AT-HOME: Visionary Quintets Revealed

The Dover Quartet, former Protégés and one of the CMNW audience’s favorite ensembles, returns for thrilling works with two of the world’s great virtuoso pianists: Marc-André Hamelin and Matan Porat. Porat premieres his own CMNW-commissioned quintet, and Hamelin illuminates Leo Ornstein’s monumental quintet.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 7/29 • 7:30 pm PT
Buy an AT-HOME Summer Festival Pass

Renegade Opera’s Orfeo in Underland follows the journey of Orfeo, a young musician, whose partner, Euridice, has passed away. Presented at twilight in the First Presbyterian Church’s ADA accessible outdoor plaza, Orfeo in Underland features English dialogue, a chamber orchestra, and fantastical puppetry. Music Director Danielle Jagelski’s original musical arrangement is for piano, string quintet, and 8 voices. Reflecting on the collective trauma brought about by the pandemic, Orfeo in Underland grapples with communal loss and asks what moving forward looks like.

Stage Director: Joellen Sweeney
Music Director: Danielle Jagelski
Cast: Claire McCahan, Madeleine Tran, Madeline Ross, Elsa Dougherty, Elliot Menard, Claire Robertson-Preis, Jess Preis, and Timothy Lafolette
Orchestra: Salem String Quartet, Philip Kettler (Cello), and Rebecca Stager (Piano).
Costume Design: Ophir El-Boher
Puppet Design: Arcadia Trueheart
Mask Design: Elliot Menard
Stage Manager: Brooke Larson
Orfeo in Underland is brought to you by Renegade Opera, through the fiscal sponsorship of Our Song Artists, a 501(c)3 organization, and by the support of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council!
Our sliding scale tickets all afford the same operatic experience, simply choose the ticket price level that suites you best. See you at the opera!

Falstaffe woos two wives simultaneously hoping they will shower their husbands’ money on him. Discovering this, they teach him a lesson using their wits and a jealous husband.  Meanwhile, three suitors compete for Anne who, defying her parents, chooses for herself. All plots uncovered in a fairy filled finale.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org 

“The Importance of Being Earnest” is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise, and misadventure.

The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best-loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage.

Come and see Penguin Productions‘ fresh take on this quirky tale, breathing new life into this iconic (and hilarious) play.

“I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner, the butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.”

“I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

Performing: July 16,17,24,25,30 & 31 at 7pm
General Admission: $15.00
Senior (62+) & Children: $10.00
For tickets and to learn more: https://www.penguinsonstage.org/

‘Early’ at Zidell Yards

Join push/FOLD to celebrate our final performances in Portland before our first international tour, traveling to perform Early at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City, Mexico!

As Portland stages reopen, push/FOLD presents Early as part of the ‘Old Moody Stages’ festival at Zidell Yards at the Portland waterfront.

Featuring an all-female cast of four dancers, Jordan Kriston (former dancer with Pilobolus), Heather Hindes, and Ashley Morton join founding member Briley Jozwiak. Originally performed by artistic director Samuel Hobbs, Jordan steps into Samuel’s role in a non-stop performance of solos and duets, slipping between butoh-like movement and Samuel’s signature fast-paced movement-partnering style in this tacit reflection on the human condition.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

Renegade Opera’s Orfeo in Underland follows the journey of Orfeo, a young musician, whose partner, Euridice, has passed away. Presented at twilight in the First Presbyterian Church’s ADA accessible outdoor plaza, Orfeo in Underland features English dialogue, a chamber orchestra, and fantastical puppetry. Music Director Danielle Jagelski’s original musical arrangement is for piano, string quintet, and 8 voices. Reflecting on the collective trauma brought about by the pandemic, Orfeo in Underland grapples with communal loss and asks what moving forward looks like.

Stage Director: Joellen Sweeney
Music Director: Danielle Jagelski
Cast: Claire McCahan, Madeleine Tran, Madeline Ross, Elsa Dougherty, Elliot Menard, Claire Robertson-Preis, Jess Preis, and Timothy Lafolette
Orchestra: Salem String Quartet, Philip Kettler (Cello), and Rebecca Stager (Piano).
Costume Design: Ophir El-Boher
Puppet Design: Arcadia Trueheart
Mask Design: Elliot Menard
Stage Manager: Brooke Larson
Orfeo in Underland is brought to you by Renegade Opera, through the fiscal sponsorship of Our Song Artists, a 501(c)3 organization, and by the support of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council!
Our sliding scale tickets all afford the same operatic experience, simply choose the ticket price level that suites you best. See you at the opera!

Get ready for the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts’ One-Day Open Show! Explore a non-juried exhibit featuring the work of 150 emerging and established artists. That’s over 600 art pieces of different styles and techniques! Each artist will have their own space outside the Lakewood Center to display their art, allowing you to engage with and celebrate each artist’s unique vision. All artworks will be for sale, and a limited number of cash and non-cash awards will be presented to artists!

To experience the show, simply arrive at the Lakewood Center for the Arts parking lot, and Lakewood staff and volunteers will guide you into the outdoor exhibit. In the event of rain, the exhibit will be postponed or canceled.

Location: Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S State St, Lake Oswego
Date: July 31 from 10:00AM – 5:00PM
Learn more at www.lakewood-center.org

“The Importance of Being Earnest” is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde’s comedies. It’s the story of two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise, and misadventure.

The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best-loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage.

Come and see Penguin Productions‘ fresh take on this quirky tale, breathing new life into this iconic (and hilarious) play.

“I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner, the butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.”

“I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”

Performing: July 16,17,24,25,30 & 31 at 7pm
General Admission: $15.00
Senior (62+) & Children: $10.00
For tickets and to learn more: https://www.penguinsonstage.org/

War, conspiracy, omens, assassination, and a ghost! The too ambitious Caesar is killed by a group of high-ranking political conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius. Fleeing Rome, they are defeated in battle by Antony and Octavius, Caesar’s heir; but it’s only after the battle that the bodies start piling up…

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

‘Early’ at Zidell Yards

Join push/FOLD to celebrate our final performances in Portland before our first international tour, traveling to perform Early at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City, Mexico!

As Portland stages reopen, push/FOLD presents Early as part of the ‘Old Moody Stages’ festival at Zidell Yards at the Portland waterfront.

Featuring an all-female cast of four dancers, Jordan Kriston (former dancer with Pilobolus), Heather Hindes, and Ashley Morton join founding member Briley Jozwiak. Originally performed by artistic director Samuel Hobbs, Jordan steps into Samuel’s role in a non-stop performance of solos and duets, slipping between butoh-like movement and Samuel’s signature fast-paced movement-partnering style in this tacit reflection on the human condition.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

Renegade Opera’s Orfeo in Underland follows the journey of Orfeo, a young musician, whose partner, Euridice, has passed away. Presented at twilight in the First Presbyterian Church’s ADA accessible outdoor plaza, Orfeo in Underland features English dialogue, a chamber orchestra, and fantastical puppetry. Music Director Danielle Jagelski’s original musical arrangement is for piano, string quintet, and 8 voices. Reflecting on the collective trauma brought about by the pandemic, Orfeo in Underland grapples with communal loss and asks what moving forward looks like.

Stage Director: Joellen Sweeney
Music Director: Danielle Jagelski
Cast: Claire McCahan, Madeleine Tran, Madeline Ross, Elsa Dougherty, Elliot Menard, Claire Robertson-Preis, Jess Preis, and Timothy Lafolette
Orchestra: Salem String Quartet, Philip Kettler (Cello), and Rebecca Stager (Piano).
Costume Design: Ophir El-Boher
Puppet Design: Arcadia Trueheart
Mask Design: Elliot Menard
Stage Manager: Brooke Larson
Orfeo in Underland is brought to you by Renegade Opera, through the fiscal sponsorship of Our Song Artists, a 501(c)3 organization, and by the support of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council!
Our sliding scale tickets all afford the same operatic experience, simply choose the ticket price level that suites you best. See you at the opera!

AT-HOME: Sonic Kaleidoscope: Sax, Guitar & Percussion

Two Grammy Award-winners, saxophonist Timothy McAllister and guitarist Jason Vieaux team up for their Summer Festival debuts performing the world premiere of an exciting CMNW commission by American composer Pierre Jalbert. The folk idiom of Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, the most dramatic work of this summer festival, caps this memorable program full of wide-ranging instrumental colors and ensembles, including the Dover Quartet.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 7/31 • 7:30 pm PT
Buy an AT-HOME Summer Festival Pass

We open our 2021-2022 season with a timely musical celebration of Dante Alighieri’s literary legacy. Join Big Mouth Society to celebrate summer and honor the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death with music based on his poetry and written over a 500-year period. Like us, Dante lived through plague, social protest and regime change. We’re excited to share his work in an array of virtuosic vocal and instrumental music by historical and contemporary masters, as we gather together once again.

We will hold four performances, each in a different outdoor corner of Portland. All appropriate pandemic precautions will be observed. Seating is limited to 30 persons per show for an up-close-and-personal experience; tickets will be sold online in advance of each performance. Big Mouth works to ensure open access to the arts and equitable treatment of artists. Ticket pricing is pay-as-you-can, and we kindly suggest that audience members contribute the equivalent of their hourly wage per ticket purchase.

Tickets: https://www.big-mouth.org/eventsandtickets
Each show will take place at a private residence in Portland. Attendees will receive address information following ticket purchase.

Southwest Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 3pm
North Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 7pm
Northeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 3pm
Southeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 7pm

The show’s eight performers are emerging and established local professional musicians. Several are graduates of Big Mouth’s Education program, which provides apprenticeship opportunities to promising musicians. In this production, they will perform side-by-side with their mentors. In Spring 2022, this production will be augmented and expanded into a Big Mouth Society Mainstage event and feature four new commissions, written by Oregon-based composers and inspired by Dante’s poetry.

Learn more about Big Mouth’s Composers Competition (https://www.big-mouth.org/composers-competition). Introductions are due via email by midnight on July 15, 2021.

We open our 2021-2022 season with a timely musical celebration of Dante Alighieri’s literary legacy. Join Big Mouth Society to celebrate summer and honor the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death with music based on his poetry and written over a 500-year period. Like us, Dante lived through plague, social protest and regime change. We’re excited to share his work in an array of virtuosic vocal and instrumental music by historical and contemporary masters, as we gather together once again.

We will hold four performances, each in a different outdoor corner of Portland. All appropriate pandemic precautions will be observed. Seating is limited to 30 persons per show for an up-close-and-personal experience; tickets will be sold online in advance of each performance. Big Mouth works to ensure open access to the arts and equitable treatment of artists. Ticket pricing is pay-as-you-can, and we kindly suggest that audience members contribute the equivalent of their hourly wage per ticket purchase.

Tickets: https://www.big-mouth.org/eventsandtickets
Each show will take place at a private residence in Portland. Attendees will receive address information following ticket purchase.

Southwest Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 3pm
North Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 7pm
Northeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 3pm
Southeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 7pm

The show’s eight performers are emerging and established local professional musicians. Several are graduates of Big Mouth’s Education program, which provides apprenticeship opportunities to promising musicians. In this production, they will perform side-by-side with their mentors. In Spring 2022, this production will be augmented and expanded into a Big Mouth Society Mainstage event and feature four new commissions, written by Oregon-based composers and inspired by Dante’s poetry.

Learn more about Big Mouth’s Composers Competition (https://www.big-mouth.org/composers-competition). Introductions are due via email by midnight on July 15, 2021.

Renegade Opera’s Orfeo in Underland follows the journey of Orfeo, a young musician, whose partner, Euridice, has passed away. Presented at twilight in the First Presbyterian Church’s ADA accessible outdoor plaza, Orfeo in Underland features English dialogue, a chamber orchestra, and fantastical puppetry. Music Director Danielle Jagelski’s original musical arrangement is for piano, string quintet, and 8 voices. Reflecting on the collective trauma brought about by the pandemic, Orfeo in Underland grapples with communal loss and asks what moving forward looks like.

Stage Director: Joellen Sweeney
Music Director: Danielle Jagelski
Cast: Claire McCahan, Madeleine Tran, Madeline Ross, Elsa Dougherty, Elliot Menard, Claire Robertson-Preis, Jess Preis, and Timothy Lafolette
Orchestra: Salem String Quartet, Philip Kettler (Cello), and Rebecca Stager (Piano).
Costume Design: Ophir El-Boher
Puppet Design: Arcadia Trueheart
Mask Design: Elliot Menard
Stage Manager: Brooke Larson
Orfeo in Underland is brought to you by Renegade Opera, through the fiscal sponsorship of Our Song Artists, a 501(c)3 organization, and by the support of the Oregon Community Foundation and the Regional Arts and Culture Council!
Our sliding scale tickets all afford the same operatic experience, simply choose the ticket price level that suites you best. See you at the opera!

Orsino loves Olivia (unrequitedly). Twins, Viola and Sebastian, are shipwrecked. Viola cross-dresses, works for Orsino, and Olivia falls in love with her/him. Olivia’s dr-uncle and friends trick Malvolio into thinking Olivia loves him. Olivia (confused) marries Sebastian. Twins reunite, Malvolio’s gulling and Viola’s gender are revealed, Orsino proposes to Viola.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

AT-HOME: Reflecting upon Classics

The internationally renowned Brentano String Quartet begin their tenure as CMNW’s 2021-22 Artists-in-Residence merging their “luxuriously warm sound and yearning lyricism” (The New York Times) with the dark expression of Haydn and Barber on the first half of this program. The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio, consisting of CMNW Artistic Directors Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, and Paul Watkins of the Emerson Quartet, makes its CMNW debut with Brahms’s glorious C major piano trio.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Thursday, 8/5 • 7:30 pm PT
Buy an AT-HOME Summer Festival Pass

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

Frederick exiled the rightful Duke to the Forest of Arden. Orlando’s brother won’t raise him right. Orlando and Rosalind fall in love. Frederick banishes Rosalind. The girls escape to Arden (Rosalind cross-dressed). Rosalind gets Orlando to pretend she/he is Rosalind and woo her. A god appears and performs many marriages.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

The Capulets and Montagues hate one another. Romeo (Montague) sneaks into a Capulet party and meets Juliet (Capulet). They marry in secret. Juliet’s cousin challenges Romeo. Romeo kills them and is banished. Juliet fakes death. Romeo doesn’t realise, takes poison, and dies beside the “body.” Juliet wakes and commits suicide by dagger.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Overlooking spectacular views of the vineyards and valley, the program opens with Gabriella Smith’s high intensity Carrot Revolution, followed by the impressionist colors of Germaine Tailleferre’s String Quartet, and Golijov’s sublime Tenebrae. The program will conclude with Joel Thompson’s socially charged In Response to the Madness, and Beethoven’s turbulent, yet ultimately triumphant String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4.

In-person tickets are available at http://www.wvchambermusic.org. Due to Covid safety measures, seating capacity is extremely limited. In-person tickets are $95 for general admission and include a special three-wine tasting paired with each program.

AT-HOME: Festival Finale: A Journey Into the Light

Our 2021 Festival Finale is a fitting testament to the trials and tribulations of the past 18 months, a collective journey of reflection — and now rejoicing. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs his groundbreaking exploration of the Mass woven through Western European, African American, and 21st-century traditions. As the grand finale, the Brentano String Quartet and cellist Paul Watkins perform Schubert’s profound Cello Quintet — one of the most inspiring chamber works ever composed.

Online Virtual Concert
Premieres Saturday, 8/7 • 7:30 pm PT
Buy an AT-HOME Summer Festival Pass

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

We open our 2021-2022 season with a timely musical celebration of Dante Alighieri’s literary legacy. Join Big Mouth Society to celebrate summer and honor the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death with music based on his poetry and written over a 500-year period. Like us, Dante lived through plague, social protest and regime change. We’re excited to share his work in an array of virtuosic vocal and instrumental music by historical and contemporary masters, as we gather together once again.

We will hold four performances, each in a different outdoor corner of Portland. All appropriate pandemic precautions will be observed. Seating is limited to 30 persons per show for an up-close-and-personal experience; tickets will be sold online in advance of each performance. Big Mouth works to ensure open access to the arts and equitable treatment of artists. Ticket pricing is pay-as-you-can, and we kindly suggest that audience members contribute the equivalent of their hourly wage per ticket purchase.

Tickets: https://www.big-mouth.org/eventsandtickets
Each show will take place at a private residence in Portland. Attendees will receive address information following ticket purchase.

Southwest Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 3pm
North Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 7pm
Northeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 3pm
Southeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 7pm

The show’s eight performers are emerging and established local professional musicians. Several are graduates of Big Mouth’s Education program, which provides apprenticeship opportunities to promising musicians. In this production, they will perform side-by-side with their mentors. In Spring 2022, this production will be augmented and expanded into a Big Mouth Society Mainstage event and feature four new commissions, written by Oregon-based composers and inspired by Dante’s poetry.

Learn more about Big Mouth’s Composers Competition (https://www.big-mouth.org/composers-competition). Introductions are due via email by midnight on July 15, 2021.

We open our 2021-2022 season with a timely musical celebration of Dante Alighieri’s literary legacy. Join Big Mouth Society to celebrate summer and honor the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death with music based on his poetry and written over a 500-year period. Like us, Dante lived through plague, social protest and regime change. We’re excited to share his work in an array of virtuosic vocal and instrumental music by historical and contemporary masters, as we gather together once again.

We will hold four performances, each in a different outdoor corner of Portland. All appropriate pandemic precautions will be observed. Seating is limited to 30 persons per show for an up-close-and-personal experience; tickets will be sold online in advance of each performance. Big Mouth works to ensure open access to the arts and equitable treatment of artists. Ticket pricing is pay-as-you-can, and we kindly suggest that audience members contribute the equivalent of their hourly wage per ticket purchase.

Tickets: https://www.big-mouth.org/eventsandtickets
Each show will take place at a private residence in Portland. Attendees will receive address information following ticket purchase.

Southwest Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 3pm
North Portland | Sunday, August 1, 2021, 7pm
Northeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 3pm
Southeast Portland | Sunday, August 8, 2021, 7pm

The show’s eight performers are emerging and established local professional musicians. Several are graduates of Big Mouth’s Education program, which provides apprenticeship opportunities to promising musicians. In this production, they will perform side-by-side with their mentors. In Spring 2022, this production will be augmented and expanded into a Big Mouth Society Mainstage event and feature four new commissions, written by Oregon-based composers and inspired by Dante’s poetry.

Learn more about Big Mouth’s Composers Competition (https://www.big-mouth.org/composers-competition). Introductions are due via email by midnight on July 15, 2021.

Forgetting the French Princess is arriving soon, King Ferdinand and friends swear off women,  The courtiers are smitten. Letters are sent and confused. Berowne reasons ways out of the oath. The French court departs, but will return in one year to marry the King and courtiers… if they prove worthy.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Two sets of identical twins, masters (Antipholus) and servants (Dromio), were separated by shipwreck. Antipholus of Syracuse arrives in Ephesus and Adriana mistakes him for her husband (E.Antipholus).. S.Antipholus gets a gold chain E.Antipholus ordered, but then E.Antipholus is arrested for not paying. Confusion reigns until Antipholus’ parents are found.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

From the sunny, wood lined modern design of Sokol Blosser’s tasting room to your home! The program opens with Gabriella Smith’s high intensity Carrot Revolution, followed by the impressionist colors of Germaine Tailleferre’s String Quartet, and Golijov’s sublime Tenebrae. The program will conclude with Joel Thompson’s socially charged In Response to the Madness, and Beethoven’s turbulent, yet ultimately triumphant String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4.

Online premier: August 13, 4pm PDT from Sokol Blosser Winery tasting room

PROGRAM:
Gabriella SMITH – Carrot Revolution
Germaine TAILLEFERRE – String Quartet
Osvaldo GOLIJOV – Tenebrae
Joel THOMPSON – In Response to the Madness
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN – Quartet in C Minor Op.18 #4

ARTISTS:
Sasha CALLAHAN and Megumi STOHS LEWIS, violin; Charles NOBLE, Viola; Leo EGUCHI, Cello.

Scottish lords Macbeth and Banquo meet witches who predict Macbeth will be King and Banquo father of kings. Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill King Duncan. Prince Malcolm escapes and Macbeth takes the throne. Macbeth orders Banquo killed. Lady Macbeth goes mad. Malcolm raises an English army that defeats Macbeth.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo Golijov joins the festival for their second weekend, with a live performance in the barrel room on Saturday, August 14th at J. Christopher Wines in Newberg, OR. The concert explores notions of light and dark, and will center around two very different examples of Golijov’s compositional voice: the world premiere of mentre la pioggia, a string quintet inspired by Vivaldi’s Winter Concerto, and his large scale epic, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for string quartet and Klezmer clarinet. The performance will feature Oregon Symphony principal clarinetist James Shields, and take the listener on a passionate journey exploring the extraordinary life of Isaac the Blind, a 13th century Kabbalist rabbi of Provence. The program also includes Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s touching final work Movement for String Trio, dictated from his death bead, and Haydn’s glorious “Sunrise” Quartet.

In-person are available at http://www.wvchambermusic.org. Due to Covid safety measures, seating capacity is extremely limited. In-person tickets are $95 for general admission and include a special three-wine tasting paired with each program.

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

At Old Moody Stages, Profile Theatre will present the final play in our Paula Vogel series: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel, directed by Jamie M. Rea. What is the retirement plan for the oldest profession? As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the Life.

About:
Welcome to Old Moody Stages—a collaborative outdoor art series brought to you by some of Portland’s most innovative arts organizations who bring live performance back to the city in a fresh new way!  Innovative dance concerts, provocative theater performances, and heartwarming musical moments take place throughout the summer at Old Moody Stages at Zidell Yards in Portland’s South Waterfront. The series will run July 21 – August 29, 2021 and will be presented in accordance with local, state, and federal health guidelines. Be safe and feel alive this summer at Old Moody Stages!

Tickets are now on sale for Chant At The Moon, a benefit concert presented by Salem Symphonic Winds at 6 pm on Sunday, August 15 at Youngberg Hill.

Hermia loves Lysander (requitedly). Helena loves Demetrius (unrequitedly). Pucke (a fairy) accidentally makes Lysander and Demetrius love Helena. Chaos ensues. King Oberon bespells Queen Titania to love an actor transformed into an ass. The fairies reconcile. Pucke fixes the spells (except Demetrius). Everyone gets married and watches a terrible play.

About WIL Festival:
OPS Fest performs all 23 plays in its repertory over the summer at 10 different Portland parks. Check the website for the schedule and Facebook for updates: https://Facebook.com/opsfest
The OPS Fest company of skilled, flexible actors will perform with occasional interruptions of songs, dances, and sketches throughout. Shows begin at 7pm and the audience is welcome to arrive during the hour before to watch the pregame dance & fight rehearsals.
Children, picnics, and leashed pups are always welcome!

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

An astounding group of virtuosos – Yo-Yo Ma on cello, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass, and Chris Thile on mandolin – reunite live for the first time in nearly a decade. Joined by featured vocalist Aoife O’Donovan, the lively talents of these exceptional artists come together on stage to create a singular sound that’s part composed, part improvised, and uniquely American – music so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo, airplane pilots’ nickname for a situation in which many different things need to go right to avoid disaster. In the words of the Los Angeles Times, this concert presents “unlikely musicians on unlikely instruments in concerts … that [are] part blues, part bluegrass and a smidgen of Bach.”

Presented by Oregon Symphony and Edgefield Concerts. The Oregon Symphony does not perform.

Tickets are $79.50 general admission (advance) and $119.50-$169.50 reserved (advance). Tickets are only available through McMenanims Edgefield.  Concert takes place at McMenamins Edgefield Amphiteater, located at 2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale, Oregon.

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

MacArthur Genius and double GRAMMY winning Composer-in-Residence Osvaldo GOLIJOV joins Oregon Symphony Principal Clarinetist James Shields and your favorite WVCMF performers for an evening including the world premiere of his Mentre la Pioggia as well as the epic klezmer-inspired tale of The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Also featured will be Haydn’s beloved “Sunrise” Quartet and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s final work, Movement for String Trio.

Concert 2, Online Premiere: Aug 20, 4:00pm PDT, from J. Christopher Wines

PROGRAM:
Osvaldo GOLIJOV – Mentre la Pioggia [WORLD PREMIERE]
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – Movement for String Trio
Franz Joseph HAYDN – Op.76 #4, The Sunrise
Osvaldo GOLIJOV – The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

ARTISTS:
Sasha CALLAHAN, Greg EWER, and Megumi STOHS LEWIS, violins; Charles NOBLE, Viola; Leo EGUCHI, Cello; James SHIELDS, Clarinet

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

Bjørn Heglie, beloved local Scandinavian folk singer, will take us all on a musical tour of folk songs of Scandinavia that will travel from early songs of sailors longing for home to children’s songs to songs of love. Come enjoy and take a light heart and tapping toes home with you. All ages are welcome! General admission: $15 Learn more at https://www.nordicnorthwest.org/let-your-heart-sing
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Meet the Musician, Bjørn Heglie,
Bjørn Heglie was born in Trondheim, Norway. He came to the US after WWII, making a career in all things mathematical. He now concentrates on his first love—music—as a composer, musician, recording artist, and storyteller.

We are delighted to return to Archery Summit this summer, and to bring with us an exciting program of old and new favorites! Caroline SHAW’s Valencia (inspired by a simple supermarket orange) is full of the playful colors and irreverent style has made her music a big WVCMF hit in the past. Gershwin’s Lullaby for string quartet is an early work that contains all the heartfelt sentiment that would help him define generations of American music. GOLIJOV’s Arum dem Fayer is a setting of a yiddish folk song, written in memory of a friend lost to COVID-19. Finally, we will present Franz Schubert’s seldom heard String Quartet in G Major – a stunningly beautiful work often neglected due to its scale and technical difficulty.

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

Come to a performance featuring the participants and staff of the Northwest Oboe Seminar! Program will include music by Antonio Soler, Emmanuel Chabrier, Gary Powell Nash and others, as well as a Boismortier trio featuring renowned oboist and returning guest Allan Vogel, along with Seminar Director, Victoria Racz and special guest Karen Wagner (Oregon Symphony)!

Saturday, August 21, 2021 * 7:30 p.m.
First Evangelical Church
4120 N.E. St. John’s Road, Vancouver, WA
General Admission $15 – tickets available at the door.

Oboe accessories and some general music supplies will be for sale at the reception courtesy of Seminar sponsors MCW Woodwinds, and RDG, Inc.

Spend an entire week with Astoria’s favorite, The Hermitage Piano Trio. This time Sergey Antonov, Ilya Kazantsev, and Misha Keylin are bringing friends for eight nights of stellar performances. The Hermitage Piano Trio will be joined by violist Mark Berger, violinist Irina Muresanu, and pianist Asiya Korepanova.

August 15-22nd, All shows 7pm
Reserved Seating $20-$40

• August 15th, Opening Night with the Hermitage Piano Trio
• August 16th, “One on One” with pianist Ilya Kazantsev
• August 17th, “Criminal Composers” featuring history’s badly behaved composers
• August 18th, “Bach in Time” The Goldberg Variations arranged for String Trio
• August 19th, “One on One” with pianist Asiya Korepanova
• August 20th, “Four by Four” String quartets
• August 21st, “88 by 20” with pianists Ilya Kazantsev and Asiya Korepanova
• August 22nd, Closing Night

The Liberty Theatre
1203 Commercial Street
Astoria, Oregon 97103
503-325-5922 x55 (Box Office)
www.libertyastoria.org

We are delighted to return to Archery Summit this summer, and to bring with us an exciting program of old and new favorites! Caroline SHAW’s Valencia (inspired by a simple supermarket orange) is full of the playful colors and irreverent style has made her music a big WVCMF hit in the past. Gershwin’s Lullaby for string quartet is an early work that contains all the heartfelt sentiment that would help him define generations of American music. GOLIJOV’s Arum dem Fayer is a setting of a yiddish folk song, set in memory of a friend lost to COVID-19. Finally, we will present Franz Schubert’s seldom heard String Quartet in G Major – a stunningly beautiful work often neglected due to its scale and technical difficulty.

Online premiere: August 27, 4:00pm PDT: @ Archery Summit, Barrel Caves

PROGRAM
Caroline SHAW – Valencia
George GERSHWIN – Lullaby
Osvaldo GOLIJOV – Arum dem Fayer
Franz SCHUBERT – String Quartet #15 in G Major

ARTISTS:
Sasha CALLAHAN and Megumi STOHS LEWIS, violin; Charles NOBLE, Viola; Leo EGUCHI, Cello.

The Capulets and Montagues hate one another. Romeo (Montague) sneaks into a Capulet party and meets Juliet (Capulet). They marry in secret. Juliet’s cousin challenges Romeo. Romeo kills them and is banished. Juliet fakes death. Romeo doesn’t realise, takes poison, and dies beside the “body.” Juliet wakes and commits suicide by dagger.

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Orsino loves Olivia (unrequitedly). Twins, Viola and Sebastian, are shipwrecked. Viola cross-dresses, works for Orsino, and Olivia falls in love with her/him. Olivia’s dr-uncle and friends trick Malvolio into thinking Olivia loves him. Olivia (confused) marries Sebastian. Twins reunite, Malvolio’s gulling and Viola’s gender are revealed, Orsino proposes to Viola.

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Forgetting the French Princess is arriving soon, King Ferdinand and friends swear off women,  The courtiers are smitten. Letters are sent and confused. Berowne reasons ways out of the oath. The French court departs, but will return in one year to marry the King and courtiers… if they prove worthy.

About the 2021 Season:
OPS Fest is proud to bring admission-free Shakespeare back to the Portland Public Parks this year! Henry IV, Part 2 and Measure for Measure are the new plays on the roster. The season ends on the last weekend in August with the Gentlemen’s Show (all fellas!) of Romeo & Juliet, GentleThem’s Show (non binary & trans actors!) of Comedie of Errors, and the extremely popular Gentlewomen’s Show (sisters are doing it for themselves!) of Loves Labours Lost.

About Original Practice Shakespeare Festival:
OPSFest brings no-cost Shakespeare to parks all over the Portland Metro area. The company uses the original practice techniques of Elizabethan England: limited rehearsal, scrolls in hand, audience interaction, and an onstage prompter. Gender fluid casting is our jam!

Learn more at opsfest.org

Join us for a performance of harpsichord concerti led by Byron Schenkman, alongside a chamber ensemble. The works include two harpsichord concerti by J. S. Bach, a concerto by Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, and a world premiere of a new work for period instruments by Portland composer Damien Geter. Filmed at the Redd on Salmon Street in Southeast Portland.

This is a Digital Production and will be free and available to everyone. Watch them here, on GreatArtsPeriod.org, or on YouTube.

Founded by Gorge artists in 2006, the Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is a yearly public tour showcasing the wonderful art of Gorge artists and providing insight into the environment in which art is created. It is our mission to advance art and encourage artists in the Columbia River Gorge by building community among artists and the public, promoting art and business education, and providing opportunities for the public to experience and enjoy art.

The 2021 Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is scheduled to happen the weekend of September 17, 18, and 19, 2021. 44 artist studios throughout the Columbia River Gorge will be open for visiting!  For COVID-19 updates, and to learn more, visit www.gorgeartists.org/welcome

Founded by Gorge artists in 2006, the Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is a yearly public tour showcasing the wonderful art of Gorge artists and providing insight into the environment in which art is created. It is our mission to advance art and encourage artists in the Columbia River Gorge by building community among artists and the public, promoting art and business education, and providing opportunities for the public to experience and enjoy art.

The 2021 Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is scheduled to happen the weekend of September 17, 18, and 19, 2021. 44 artist studios throughout the Columbia River Gorge will be open for visiting!  For COVID-19 updates, and to learn more, visit www.gorgeartists.org/welcome

Founded by Gorge artists in 2006, the Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is a yearly public tour showcasing the wonderful art of Gorge artists and providing insight into the environment in which art is created. It is our mission to advance art and encourage artists in the Columbia River Gorge by building community among artists and the public, promoting art and business education, and providing opportunities for the public to experience and enjoy art.

The 2021 Gorge Artists Open Studios Tour is scheduled to happen the weekend of September 17, 18, and 19, 2021. 44 artist studios throughout the Columbia River Gorge will be open for visiting!  For COVID-19 updates, and to learn more, visit www.gorgeartists.org/welcome

New Music Director David Danzmayr opens the season with an exhilarating Oregon Symphony celebration. This season’s central theme – how a composer’s cultural background shapes their music – comes to life in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Peru-inspired Elegía Andina and Mahler’s unforgettable “Resurrection” Symphony.

Program:
Kenji Bunch: Fanfare (World premiere commission)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegía Andina
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Artists:
David Danzmayr, Conductor
Oregon Repertory Singers and The Portland State Chamber Choir
Soloists TBA

This concert is part of Classical Series A

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New Music Director David Danzmayr opens the season with an exhilarating Oregon Symphony celebration. This season’s central theme – how a composer’s cultural background shapes their music – comes to life in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Peru-inspired Elegía Andina and Mahler’s unforgettable “Resurrection” Symphony.

Program:
Kenji Bunch: Fanfare (World premiere commission)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegía Andina
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Artists:
David Danzmayr, Conductor
Oregon Repertory Singers and The Portland State Chamber Choir
Soloists TBA

This concert is part of Classical Series A

Learn more and buy tickets

New Music Director David Danzmayr opens the season with an exhilarating Oregon Symphony celebration. This season’s central theme – how a composer’s cultural background shapes their music – comes to life in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Peru-inspired Elegía Andina and Mahler’s unforgettable “Resurrection” Symphony.

Program:
Kenji Bunch: Fanfare (World premiere commission)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegía Andina
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Artists:
David Danzmayr, Conductor
Oregon Repertory Singers and The Portland State Chamber Choir
Soloists TBA

This concert is part of Classical Series A

Learn more and buy tickets