Upcoming Events:
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Date: 2/11/2013 - 5/31/2013
Location: Joan and Robert Rechnitz Hall
Student Movie Posters from the Department of Art & Design
What can you do with 4 colors, 4 names, 2 locations, 2 dates, 2 film genres and 4 adjectives?
For this project, students are asked to create a concept for a movie poster for a film that does not exist. Here are the results of their work.
Date: 4/11/2013 - 6/7/2013
Location: Pollak Gallery
Works of Jacob Landau from the Monmouth University Permanent Collection.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 4/28/2013 - 6/5/2013
Location: Rotary Ice House Gallery
Featuring the work of Monmouth University students in Photography, Graphic Design, Animation and Studio Art.
Free & Open to Public
Date: 5/22/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Ramona's life is a mess! Her older sister Beezus is a pain, her Aunt Bea may marry a dork, and her Dad just lost his job. She even thinks that her teacher hates her. Life is no picnic, and growing up isn’t easy. But with the help of her loving and patient family and friends, Ramona faces these challenges -- as audiences laugh and cheer her on. Appropriate for Grades 1 - 5
Date: 5/22/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Ramona's life is a mess! Her older sister Beezus is a pain, her Aunt Bea may marry a dork, and her Dad just lost his job. She even thinks that her teacher hates her. Life is no picnic, and growing up isn’t easy. But with the help of her loving and patient family and friends, Ramona faces these challenges -- as audiences laugh and cheer her on. Appropriate for Grades 1 - 5
Date: 5/22/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
*please note that this event has been rescheduled from the original May 16 date James Graham’s biting, energetic and critically-acclaimed new play strips politics down to the practical realities of those behind the scenes who roll up their sleeves, and on occasion bend the rules, to manoeuvre a diverse and conflicting chorus of MPs within the Mother of all Parliaments.
Date: 6/14/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Helen Mirren reprises her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II in the sell-out West End production of The Audience, broadcast as part of National Theatre Live.
Date: 6/19/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
"It is one of the inalienably great works of art. It's sexy, in every sense. And I think it should be shocking."
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Date: 6/20/2013
Location: MAC at Monmouth
with Rodney Atkins & Jana Kramer. June 20, 2013 – 7:30pm Showtime. All-ages to enter – Open to the public!
On sale Friday, March 1st at noon.
Date: 6/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
David McVicar’s stirring production of Verdi’s intense drama premiered at the Met in the 2008–09 season. This revival stars four extraordinary singers—Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Álvarez, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky—in what might be the composer’s most melodically rich score.
Date: 6/27/2013 - 7/21/2013
Location: Lauren K. Woods Theatre
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time
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Date: 7/10/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Armida is a fanciful and magical tale with “an epic, enchanted quality and a tremendous visual element.”
Date: 7/17/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Natalie Dessay stars as Verdi’s most beloved heroine in Willy Decker's stunning production, first seen at the Met in 2010. Matthew Polenzani is her lover, Alfredo, and Dimitri Hvorostovsky sings his stern father, Germont. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
Date: 7/24/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Maria Guleghina plays the ruthless Chinese princess of the title, whose hatred of men is so strong that she has all suitors who can’t solve her riddles beheaded.
Date: 7/31/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
One of the most beloved operatic comedies of all time, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville is presented in a production by director Bartlett Sher
Date: 9/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Othello, newly married to Desdemona – who is half his age – is appointed leader of a major military operation. Iago, passed over for promotion by Othello in favour of the young Cassio, persuades Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair.
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Date: 9/27/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
The Aquila Theatre will bring new life to Ray Bradbury’s visionary parable of a society gone awry. One of the most revered novels of the 20th century, Fahrenheit 451 is Ray Bradbury’s dystopian tale of a bleak future where literature and knowledge are on the edge of extinction.
*TICKETS ON SALE SOON
Date: 10/5/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien star as the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance.
Encore: Sunday, October 20 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 10/18/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
With personal anecdotes and reflections drawn from their work together, Julian Sands (24, A Room with a View, The Killing Fields, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Impromptu, Leaving Las Vegas) combines Harold Pinter’s poems and political prose to create a very fresh and intimate insight into the Nobel laureate’s literary legacy.
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Date: 10/26/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010.
Encore: Sunday, November 17 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 11/8/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Presale for Fan Club members: January 30, 2012. Tickets go on sale to the public: February 1, 2012. After 20 years in the music biz, self-described “Little Folksinger” Ani DiFranco is still technically little, although her influence on fellow musicians, activists, and indie-minded people the world over has been huge.
Date: 11/9/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
Puccini’s timeless verismo score is well served by an exceptional cast, led by Patricia Racette in the title role of the jealous diva, opposite Roberto Alagna as her lover, Cavaradossi. George Gagnidze is the villainous Scarpia.
Encore: Sunday, November 24 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 12/1/2013
Location: MAC at Monmouth
2 pm and 6 pm Shows - The Fresh Beat Band, Nickelodeon’s popular preschool music group and stars of the hit TV series of the same name, have added 50 cities by popular demand to their enormously successful 2012 tour. On sale Saturday, April 20th at 10 am via Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000 and Ticketmaster retail outlets. Tickets will be available for sale in person at the MAC box office starting on Monday, April 22 at 10:00 a.m.
Date: 12/14/2013
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
An undisputed master of Falstaff, Music Director James Levine conducts Verdi’s opera for the first time at the Met since 2005. Robert Carsen’s production—the first new Met Falstaff since 1964—is set in the English countryside in the mid-20th century.
Encore: Sunday, January 26 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 2/8/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
The great Renée Fleming returns to one of her signature roles, singing the enchanting “Song to the Moon” in Dvorák’s soulful fairy-tale opera.
Encore: Sunday, February 23 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 3/1/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 12:00 p.m.
Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop.
Encore: Sun. March 30 at 1:00 p.m
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Date: 3/15/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
Two of opera’s greatest artists—Jonas Kaufmann and Elīna Garanča—appear together for the first time at the Met in Massenet’s sublime adaptation of Goethe’s revolutionary and tragic romance. It is directed and designed by Richard Eyre and Rob Howell, the same team that created the Met’s recent hit production of Carmen. Rising young maestro Alain Altinoglu conducts.
Encore: Sun. April 13 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 4/5/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
Puccini’s moving story of young love is the most performed opera in Met history—and with good reason. Anita Hartig stars as the frail Mimì in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, with Vittorio Grigolo as her passionate lover, Rodolfo.
Encore: Sun. May 4 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 4/26/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
Music Director James Levine makes his long-awaited return to the Met podium to conduct Mozart’s beloved opera about testing the ties of love.
Encore: Sun. May 18 at 1:00 p.m.
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Date: 5/10/2014
Location: Pollak Theatre
Sat. at 1:00 p.m.
A peerless pair of Rossini virtuosos joins forces in La Cenerentola—a vocal tour de force for mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, singing her first Met performances of the Cinderella title role, and the high-flying tenor Juan Diego Flórez, as her Prince Charming.
Encore: Sun. June 1 at 1:00 p.m.
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