Waterville Opera House

The Waterville Opera House collaborates with Missoula Children's Theatre, an internationally recognized touring group, to present sessions of theater camp! Each week concludes with a fully realized performance! This week, it's Pinocchio. For children in grades 1 - 8. Camp runs Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., with a performance on Saturday. Cost is $220 […]

Purposely varying from the plot of Daniel Defoe’s novel, MCT’s Robinson Crusoe teaches the lesson that reading invites more than observation. Unlike TV and movies, which provide every detail, a book allows the reader the luxury and the joy of imagination. We arrive on Robinson’s island years after he and his sole companion, a goat […]

The Waterville Opera House collaborates with Missoula Children's Theatre, an internationally recognized touring group, to present sessions of theater camp! Each week concludes with a fully realized performance! This week, it's Robinson Crusoe. For children in grades 1 - 8. Camp runs Mon.-Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., with a performance on Saturday. Cost is […]

Waterville Opera House collaborates with Missoula Children’s Theatre, an internationally recognized touring group, to present sessions of theater camp during February and summer vacations for students in the 1st through 8th grades. Each week concludes with a fully realized performances, with scenery, costumes, and props. Theatre camp provides children with hands-on opportunities to learn about […]

For the last thirty two years, The Peking Acrobats have redefined audience perceptions of Chinese acrobatics. They perform daring maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda of chairs and display their technical prowess at such arts as trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting, and gymnastics. They push the limits of human ability, defying gravity with amazing displays of […]

This performance is an encore HD broadcast from Moscow. Running Time: 2 hours (1 intermission) Featuring the world-renowned Bolshoi Ballet, this is a staging of two one-act ballets. CARMEN: This story centers on Carmen, Don José and the bullfighter Escamillo. Carmen is a passionate, free-spirited woman in contrast to the temperamental and fickle Don José. […]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Francis Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita Mattila, a legend in her own time, returns to the Met as the Prioress. This performance is an encore high-definition broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera […]

REM Awards was broadcast live from the Waterville Opera House starting at 7:00PM Friday, May 24, 2019. Here is a link to the recorded event: Click for Facebook link We invite you to join our REM Partner organizations in paying tribute to exemplary volunteers who have enriched lives by serving our community with style, grace, […]

Few recording artists are as creative and prolific as Bruce Cockburn. Since his self-titled debut in 1970, the Canadian singer-songwriter has issued a steady stream of acclaimed albums every couple of years. Bone On Bone, Cockburn’s 33rd album, arrives with 11 new songs, including “3 Al Purdys,” a brilliant, six-minute epic that pays tribute to […]

Juston McKinney returns to the Waterville Opera House! Maine Sheriff's Deputy turned comedian Juston McKinney is not a newcomer to the spotlight. With a national career that started over 20 years ago as he was trying to hang up his badge and cutting his teeth in New York City on the weekends. That has led […]

Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) lead in All About Eve, broadcast live to cinemas from the West End in London. All About Eve tells the story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. […]

For Americana godfather David Bromberg, it all began with the blues. His incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes – but is not limited to – adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son. A […]

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts. This […]

If you haven't already, order your tickets for opening night of The Wizard of Oz. Only opening night ticket holders and sponsors are invited to this free VIP party. Hors d'oeuvres by Amici's Cucina and libations by Meridians. All opening night ticket holders are entered to win a Wizard of Oz themed Day's Jewelers bracelet, […]

In this lavish staging of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, it is Princess Aurora’s sixteenth birthday. Four foreign princes have come to ask for her hand. At the height of the festivities, an old woman with a knitting spindle appears at the Princess’s side… This performance is an encore high-definition broadcast from Moscow. The running time is 2 […]

Shemekia Copeland March 9, 2019 at 8:00pm Shemekia Copeland returns to Waterville Opera House! Shemekia Copeland never holds back. Her instantly recognizable voice—capable of being sultry, assertive and roaring—delivers every song with unparalleled honesty and passion. Her wide-open vision of contemporary Americana roots and soul music showcases the evolution of a passionate artist with an up-to-the-minute musical […]

(Rescheduled from Jan 19, 2019) Soprano Anna Netrebko joins the ranks of Renata Tebaldi, Montserrat Caballé, and Renata Scotto, taking on — for the first time at the Met — the title role of the real-life French actress who dazzled 18th-century audiences with her on-and offstage passion. The soprano is joined by tenor Piotr Beczała […]

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This performance is an HD broadcast from London. Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes By: William Shakespeare The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris (The Threepenny Opera, London Road), sees Rory Kinnear […]

This performance concludes a week-long session of theatre camp. Although set in a “land of colored ice,” this classic tale will warm your heart in its illustrative retelling by a group of fun-loving, imaginative hobgoblins. As they depict the journey of a young girl and her quest to find her best friend, you may just […]

Waterville Opera House collaborates with Missoula Children's Theatre, an internationally recognized touring group, to present sessions of theatre camp during February and summer vacations. This play will be The Snow Queen. Each week concludes with a fully realized performance, with scenery, costumes, and props. Participants will learn about the theatrical process while practicing for the […]

Directed by Jules Dassin. By all cultural accounts, 1968 was a hellish year for America. The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy helped spark the “burn baby burn” sensibility ignited in the streets. It was also during this turbulent period that Paramount Pictures reluctantly agreed to finance Jules Dassin’s remake of the classic film […]