LUNAFEST

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

ZONTA ADK to Host Free in Person + Virtual Filmfest Get ready to feel empowered and inspired! LUNAFEST, is a 90-minute presentation made up of 7 short films that showcase the strength of women and gender nonconforming individuals. All are welcome! This year's selection of short films will leave you feeling uplifted and ready to...

Make Your Own Stop Motion Animation Party

Whitcomb's Garage 1598 NYS Route 22, Essex

Enter the magical world of animation. Create your own short film during a Friday night art party at Whitcomb's Garage. No experience needed.... surprisingly easy! Guidance provided. Snacks, wine, seltzer. Bring a phone or iPad. Viewing party at the end. Advance registration required. High school and up. Limit of 12 main participants - but feel...

Met Live On-Screen: Falstaff

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium on April 1 to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park, Ailyn Pérez, and Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole...

$15 – $25

NTL: Shakespeare’s Henry V

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power. Captured live from the Donmar Warehouse in London. Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove...

$5 – $15

Met Live On-Screen: Der Rosenkavalier

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aging Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover Octavian and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as the churlish Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s wealthy father, Faninal....

$15 – $25

Met Live On-Screen: Champion

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021–22. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays...

$15 – $25

Met Live On-Screen: Don Giovanni

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s A View from the Bridge and West Side Story, Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its...

$15 – $25

Met Live On-Screen: Die Zauberflöte

Lake Placid Center for the Arts 17 Algonquin Drive, Lake Placid, NY

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pit raised to make the musicians visible to the...

$15 – $25