ARB’s Silent Auction is coming to a screen near you!

ARB’s Silent Auction is coming to a screen near you!

While we missed celebrating our 65th Anniversary with you in-person, we hope to still connect with you virtually.

Thursday, June 18th - Saturday, June 20th

Bid on fantastic items, learn about our 2020 Honorees, and support the legacy and future of American Repertory Ballet and Princeton Ballet School.

Stay tuned for registration details...

Please see below for a taste of the silent auction menu.

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A fantastic Cuban meal cooked with love by Aydmara Cabrera!

Enjoy a special dinner and conversation via Zoom with Princeton Ballet School's Director.

Menu, delivery, and size of dinner party will be mutually arranged.

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Celebrate the end of the school year and inspire a young dancer with this signed copy of Misty Copeland’s Firebird and lace Ainsliewear leotard.

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SILENT AUCTION TO SUPPORT FUNDING NEW TEAM OF DRAFT HORSES

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OPERA BUFFS WANTED FOR VERISMO OPERA’S OPEN HOUSE & SILENT AUCTION

Open House and Silent Auction

WHEN: Saturday, September 12, 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Performing Arts School at bergenPAC, 30 N. Van Brunt St., Englewood
TICKETS: Free
For further information about the program or Verismo Opera, call (201) 886-0561 or send an e-mail to info@verismopera.org.

Artistic Director Lucine Amara, a Met Opera luminary, invites the public to attend the free event and learn more about the grand opera company's fall season. The program will feature vocalists performing solos from Verismo Opera's 2015 season and past productions. Opportunities will be discussed to get involved in the nonprofit opera company as supernumeraries acting in non-speaking and non-singing roles, volunteers working behind-the-scenes, and singers performing in the Verismo Opera Chorus. Exhibits will display memorabilia, costumes, and photos from Verismo Opera’s years of producing grand operas, sponsoring an annual international vocal competition, presenting concerts, holding master classes, giving operalogues, and training the stars of tomorrow.

To continue the grand opera company's work, a silent auction will feature a range of fine items available for purchase. Among the products available to bid upon will be opera CDs from artists, including Lucine Amara and records; ivory, alabaster collectible opera plates by Italian master Franco Ingargiola; prints; large photos posters personally signed by Lucine Amara; and several other items. Funds from the auction will be used to support the volunteer chorus.

Ms. Amara, Verismo Opera Music Director/Principal Conductor Anthony Morss, Stage Director Evelyn La Quaif, Associate Conductor/Chorus Director Mara Waldman, and President Dr. James Garvin, MD will discuss Verismo Opera’s mission, vision, and history. They will introduce the grand opera company’s new productions of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Verismo Opera's premiere of Amilcare Ponchielli’s La Gioconda.

The company will perform Lucia di Lammermoor on October 18, 2015 and present La Gioconda on April 17, 2016. Both productions will be performed at bergenPAC, located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey, at 3:00 p.m.

The Open House site is handicapped accessible. A parking lot has a designated handicapped parking space. The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera is committed to ensuring its programs and services are accessible to all. Members of the public requiring a special accommodation or with specific questions about the physical features of a facility where Verismo Opera performs may call (201) 886-0561 at least two weeks prior to the event.

SOUTH ORANGE SYMPHONY CONTINUES 66TH SEASON WITH NEW CONDUCTOR

SOUTH ORANGE SYMPHONY PRESENTS

MUSIC BY DVORAK, BEETHOVEN & TCHAIKOVSKY

WHEN: Sunday, February 22, at 3 PM
WHERE: Sterling Hall at South Orange Middle School, 70 North Ridgewood Road, South Orange
ADMISSION: free of charge and made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts administered through Essex County.

The South Orange Symphony continues its 66th season with its recently-appointed conductor Susan Haig.

For added excitement, the Orchestra’s annual Silent Auction fundraiser will be held during intermission. Those wishing to donate goods or services for the Silent Auction can contact the Symphony by email at southorangesym@aol.com

If you are unable to attend the concert and fundraiser, donations may be mailed to South Orange Symphony Orchestra, P.O. Box 91, South Orange, NJ 07079.

For more information, email SOUTHORANGESYM@aol.com, call 973.376.6349, check the South Orange Symphony Facebook page or our new website: www.sosymphony.org

NJ’S VERISMO OPERA CELEBRATES 25 SEASON WITH OPEN HOUSE AND SILENT AUCTION, SEPT. 6

VERISMO OPERA OPEN HOUSE & SILENT AUCTION

WHEN: Saturday, September 6, 1 PM
WHERE: The Performing Arts School of bergenPAC, located at 1 Depot Square in Englewood, New Jersey.
ADMISSION: Free
The site is handicapped accessible. A parking lot has a designated handicapped parking space.
For further information about the program or Verismo Opera, call 201.886.0561.

Artistic Director and Met Opera luminary Lucine Amara, Verismo Opera Music Director/Principal Conductor Anthony Morss, General Manager/Stage Director Evelyn La Quaif, Chorus Director/Associate Conductor Mara Waldman, and President Dr. James Garvin, MD will discuss Verismo Opera’s mission, vision, and history. They will introduce the grand opera company’s new production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, as well as the 2015 season performances of George Bizet's Carmen and Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Set in Paris, France, La Bohème will be performed on Sunday October 19 and 26 at bergenPAC, located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey. The 2015 season will open with Carmen on April 26, followed by Lucia di Lammermoor on October 18, with all performances presented at bergenPAC.

The open house program will present vocalists performing solos from La Bohème. Exhibits will display memorabilia and photos from Verismo Opera’s 25 years of producing grand operas, sponsoring an annual international vocal competition, presenting concerts, holding master classes, giving operalogues, and training the stars of tomorrow. Opportunities to perform in the chorus, act as a supernumerary in non-speaking and non-singing roles or volunteer behind-the-scenes with the company will be presented. Verismo Opera representatives in costume will be available to answer questions.

To continue the grand opera company's work, a silent auction will feature a range of fine items available for purchase. Among the operatic products available to bid upon will be CDs with Lucine Amara; ivory, alabaster collectible opera plates by Italian master Franco Ingargiola; and others.