Yankee Brew News: June - July 2023 Issue
La bohème at Maine Beer Company
What happens when one of the world’s greatest breweries teams up with Maine’s most adventurous opera company? A full taproom full of hop heads and opera fans were fortunate enough to find out when Opera in the Pines staged a performance of Puccini’s La bohème in Maine Beer Company’s Freeport taproom. The opera was adapted for the space with a smaller cast and a piano reduction of the original score, but the sold-out audience hung on to every note…
Jimi Michel, Staff Writer
207 Maine
How to get people to attend opera? A Maine company may have the answer.
Rob Caldwell, NEWS CENTER Maine
Spectrum News: Maine
New company brings a down-to-earth approach to opera
Sean Murphy, Digital Journalist
207 Maine
A new Maine opera company gets ready for its inaugural production
Rob Caldwell, NEWS CENTER Maine
The Portland Press Herald - The Maine Sunday Telegram
Maine Jewish Museum hopes to attract a wider audience, first with an Anne Frank opera
The Portland museum plans to collaborate with other cultural organizations to put on more events and programs, including the first production of Opera in the Pines.
Ray Routhier, Staff Writer
The Maine Weekender
Produced in partnership with the Maine Jewish Museum in Portland, alternative opera company Opera in the Pines is putting on performances of The Diary of Anne Frank tonight and this Saturday at 7 p.m. Based on the text from the famous diary that Anne kept during her family’s confinement while in hiding during WWII, the opera provides an inside look into the life of a spirited young woman coming of age in troubled times. Each performance will begin with a presentation by professor Abraham Peck, founding director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies program at the University of Maine at Augusta, about Frank’s life and diary, and the impacts it continues to have on the world to this day.
Maine Magazine