DANCE
Ballet camps
Monday is the deadline to register for June 10-14 and 17-21 summer dance camps at Western Arkansas Ballet, 4701 Grand Ave., Fort Smith:
◼️ “Nutcracker” Ballet Camp, for ages 4-5, 10 a.m.-noon June 10-14, including a daily ballet technique class with explorations of music, dance history, nutrition, creative expression and dance vocabulary, culminating in a short studio performance on the last day. Cost is $85.
◼️ “Coppélia” Ballet Camp, for ages 6-7, 1-3 p.m. June 10-14, with a similar agenda and final-day short performance. $85.
◼️ “Cinderella” Ballet Camp, for ages 8-9, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. June 17-20. Same areas of study and a final-day short studio performance. $100.
◼️ Elevé Dance Workshop for ages 10-15, 9:30 a.m.-2:45 p.m. June 17-21, offering expanded dance knowledge and abilities in ballet and jazz with an extended technique class and supplementary lessons to help improve all aspects of dance training, plus classes in stage makeup and hair, a vocabulary lesson, and pieces of choreography from “Nutcracker” and other ballets, plus a last-day “Jeopardy” game and showcase. $175.
Registration forms are available at the studio or online at waballet.org/dance-academy.
Soprano Angel Blue sings the role of Bess with bass-baritone Eric Owens as Porgy in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020 production of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” on movie screens Aug. 14 as a “Met Live! in HD” encore. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Metropolitan Opera)
MUSIC
Opera in the Ozarks
The Opera in the Ozarks summer music festival and opera training program has programmed 22 fully staged and costumed opera performances June 21-July 19 at Inspiration Point, 16311 U.S. 62 West, overlooking Beaver Lake 5 miles west of Eureka Springs.
The lineup:
◼️ “La Traviata” by Giuseppe Verdi, June 21, 27, 29; and July 2, 7, 10, 13, 19.
◼️ “The Crucible” by Robert Ward, June 22, 26, 30; and July 5, 8, 12, 17.
◼️ The double-bill of “Beauty and the Beast” by Vittorio Giannini and “L’enfant et les sortilèges” by Maurice Ravel, June 25, 28; and July 1, 6, 9, 14, 18.
Evening performances at Inspiration Point are at 7:30 p.m. with 3 p.m. Sunday matinees.
Singers and orchestra musicians from around the country assemble each summer at Inspiration Point; this season’s cast includes 34 singers performing with an orchestra of 25.
There will also be more than a dozen performances of a traveling production, “Little Red’s Most Unusual Day” by John Davies, set to music by Jacques Offenbach and Gioacchino Rossini, at locations throughout Northwest Arkansas, including libraries, schools, retirement centers and more. The season also includes a July 15 chamber music concert at Inspiration Point, and two Broadway Cabarets, one at 7 p.m. July 11 at Mount Sequoyah, 150 N. Skyline Drive, Fayetteville, with heavy hors d’oeuvres; the other at 6 p.m. July 16 at the Crescent Hotel, 75 Prospect Ave., Eureka Springs, which will include dinner.
Single opera tickets are $25 and $30 with discounts for children and students under 18. Tickets for the Fayetteville cabaret are $60; for the Eureka Springs cabaret, $75. Chamber music concert tickets are $20, also with discounts for children and students. Call (479) 253-8595 or visit opera.org.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2016 production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” is a “Met Live! in HD” encore on movie screens Aug. 7. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Metropolitan Opera)
‘Met Live’ encores
For four consecutive Wednesdays, July 24-Aug. 14, Fathom Events and the Metropolitan Opera will screen 2024 Summer Encores, featuring four past performances from the celebrated “Met Live in HD” series of cinecasts, all at 1 and 6:30 p.m. at the Razorback Cinema in Fayetteville:
◼️ July 24: The 2018 cinecast of Giacamo Puccini’s “La Bohème,” with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Mimì and tenor Michael Fabiano as Rodolfo.
◼️ July 31: The 2014 cinecast of Giacchino Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the title role and tenor Juan Diego Flórez as her Prince Charming.
◼️ Aug. 7: The 2016 cinecast of Puccini’s “Turandot,” with soprano Nina Stemme, tenor Marco Berti and soprano Anita Hartig.
◼️ Aug. 14: The 2020 cinecast of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” with soprano Angel Blue and bass-baritone Eric Owens.
Visit athomevents.com/series/the-met-live-in-hd-summer-encores.
TICKETS
‘Miss Dee’s Kitchen’
Katrina A. Walker’s touring stage comedy “Miss Dee’s Kitchen” will be onstage at 8 p.m. Sept. 21 at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway. Walker, a native of Akron, Ohio, and raised in Memphis, Tenn., plays the title character, with a cast that includes Tony Grant, Samson Logan and Nia Dorsey. Tickets are $54-$100, via Ticketmaster.com.
Chenoweth concert
Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth performs favorite songs from her stage and screen career as well as selections from her 2021 album “HAPPINESS is … Christmas!” 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. Broadway season subscribers and Friends of Walton Arts Center get first crack at tickets — $59-$139; they’ll go on sale to the public later this summer. Visit waltonartscenter.org.
Kristin Chenoweth performs Dec. 3 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
