The Met’s 2017–18 season of Live in HD movie-theater transmissions features ten presentations plus a special holiday encore, beginning October 7 with Bellini’s Norma. 

October 7, 2017 – NORMA (Bellini) Encore October 15 
New Production
Tentative run time: 3:29

October 14 – DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (Mozart) Encore October 22
3:29

November 18 – THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Adès) Encore November 26 
New Production
2:52

December 17 – HANSEL AND GRETEL (Humperdinck) Holiday Encore
1:53

BELLINI

Norma (New Production)

This new production of Bellini’s masterpiece stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her rival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.

MOZART

Die Zauberflöte

Judy Sjerven came to Skagit Valley from San Diego in summer of 2006 to take a plein air workshop by master pastelist/teacher Richard McKinley. The beauty of the area was so inspiring, that six weeks later she was settled into a little house and studio in La Conner. She also took workshops with Albert Handell in Monterey and Terri Ford in Paris and Skagit Valley. She loves the immediacy and possibilities of pastel.

Alice Neel said “You should keep painting no matter how difficult the experience, because this is all part of the experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is…. unless it kills you, then you know you have gone too far.”  I’ve kept painting, no matter how difficult it was, and it hasn’t killed me yet, and I’m 71.  I’m encouraged, and I’m not stopping!

Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within

Rating: PG

Runtime: 129 Minutes

Director:  Bill Condon

Starring:  Dan Stevens, Emma Watson, Gerard Horan, Hattie Morahan, Haydn Gwynne, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Luke Evans, and Ray Fearon

Join TAG, META and the LINCOLN Theatre 

as they host the Fourth Annual

Drive for the Arts - Friday September 8th - Avalon Golf Links

Show your support for community theatre in Skagit Valley by playing a spirited round of golf or becoming a sponsor of The Fourth Annual Drive for the Arts.

META PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS A SUMMER CAMP PRODUCTION OF

The Lion King Experience

Music and Lyrics By Elton John & Tim Rice

Book by Roger Allers & Irene Mecchi
Additional Music and Lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, and Hans Zimmer
Based on the Broadway Production By Julie Taymor

JULY 24TH - AUGUST 5TH

Stand and Deliver

A TRUE STORY ABOUT A MODERN MIRACLE.

In 1982, a new troublemaker hit Garfield High. He was tough. He was wild. He was willing to fight.
He was the new math teacher and together with one class, they proved to America they could… Stand and Deliver.

This work is a collection of traveling art, by that I mean, this is what I do on vacation. Our last trip was during the cold, rainy season here in Skagit County, to the magical island of Maui. In this show, you'll see some of what we experienced, including sunny warm weather.

Key West, FL was another important trip we made. Such a lively, colorful place, rich in history (think Hemingway) and a lighthouse in the southernmost point of the US.

I've included watercolor castles in Portugal, pen and ink with colored pencil art from Mazatlan and Santa Fe, too.