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The Met: Live in HD: Bizet’s CARMEN
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAcclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Verdi’s NABUCCO
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAncient Babylon comes to life in a classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze makes his Met role debut as the imperious king Nabucco, alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska reprising her thrilling turn as his vengeful daughter Abigaille. Mezzo-soprano Maria Barakova and tenor SeokJong Baek are Fenena and Ismaele, whose love transcends politics, and... Read More
Holiday Film Series: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesThis event will be held at The Ridges Auditorium on Saturday, December 23rd at 5:00 p.m. About the film Frank Capra’s classic stars the great James Stewart as George Bailey, the eternally-in-debt manager of his late father’s bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. Long considering himself a failure and now facing... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Catán’s FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesSung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The... Read More
Holiday Film Series: ELF
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesThis event will be held at The Ridges Auditorium. See event schedule below. About the film Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a regular-sized man who was raised as an elf by Santa Claus. When the news is finally broken to Buddy that he’s not a real elf, he decides to head back to his place... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Davis’s X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAnthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, finally sees its premiere at the Met! Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Heggie’s DEAD MAN WALKING
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAmerican composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, sees its premiere at the Met: Live in HD in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of... Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAbout the film Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an icon and an international inspiration. This film, by co-directors Alan... Read More
From the Hills and Hollers: TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL with Dr. Tiffany Arnold
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAbout the film Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students. About the Speaker Dr. Tiffany Arnold is an assistant professor of instruction in the College of Health Sciences and Professions where she coordinates the Appalachian Studies... Read More
‘Microplastic Madness’ to be screened Sept. 27 at The Ridges
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAs part of Ohio University’s Sustainability Film Series, Athens ReThink Plastics is hosting the film, “Microplastics Madness,” on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at The Ridges Auditorium in Athens. Admission is free for the film, which starts at 7 p.m. “Microplastics Madness” tells the “story of 56 fifth-graders from P.S. 15 in Red Hook, Brooklyn (New York... Read More