DIRECTOR'S NOTE
A popular barber and great raconteur recalls the love of his life in a drama that blends a celebration of youthful romance with a darker tale of prejudice and classism. In the waning decades of the 19th century, Kari is born with a cleft palate, the doctor attending the birth suggesting that the kind thing to do would be to drown him “like a kitten.” Instead, he grows up to be a well-liked coiffeur whose kindness and charm win him the heart of a powerful merchant’s beautiful daughter. But the older man’s disdain for Kari’s lowly status and birth defect leads him to oppose their union. Academy Award®-winning writer-director Xavier Koller tacks back an...
Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout returns to the Opera House, this time paying tribute to Blues Harp great, Little Walter. For the past 22 years, Mark Hummel has been putting together these great all-star performances. On this, his third trip to the Opera House, Mark joins forces with Corky Siegel, James Harman & Little Charlie Baty along with the Blues Survivors paying tribute to the great Little Walter.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows the journey of two drag queens and a transsexual woman, played by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terence Stamp, across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
• Rated - R — Restricted. Children Under 17 Require Accompanying Parent or Adult Guardian.
• Running Time: 104 min.
On her debut album, singer/songwriter Fatoumata Diawara — called “the most beguiling talent to hit the world music scene in some time” — uses elements of jazz, pop, and funk along with her ancestral Wassoulou tradition, accompanying her voice with rhythmical guitar playing and her own percussion work. Her lyrics touch on such serious and personal subjects as a woman’s right to choose her spouse, and the songwriter’s own painful experience with the African practice of being raised away from her parents.
ROCKSHOW is a 1980 concert film by Wings, filmed during their 1976 North American tour. It features 30 songs from four concerts of the tour: New York, May 25 (four songs); Seattle, Washington, June 10 (five songs); Los Angeles, California, June 22 (15 songs); and Los Angeles, California, June 23 (six songs). This was part of the Wings Over the World Tour that also spawned the triple live album Wings Over America. McCartney remained reluctant to make the entire film available to the general public until now.
• Running time: 141 minutes (includes exclusive 12-min interview with Paul McCartney)
Greg Brown was born in the Hacklebarney section of southeastern Iowa and raised by a family that made words and music a way of life. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in that place. He moves audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world, and in 2013 begins theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists.
• Running Time: 101 min.
Directed and founded by trumpet player Cindy Shea in 1999, Mariachi Divas have made big waves on the national and international music scene. Mariachi Divas are a unique, multi-cultural, all female ensemble, imbued with the true flavor of Los Angeles and have been represented by women of a wide variety of descents. In 2009, Mariachi Divas won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album of the year for their release, Canciones De Amor.
Successful attorney Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) decides to defend Doris (Judy Holliday), who stands accused of the attempted murder of her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen), while Bonner's lawyer husband, Adam (Spencer Tracy), signs on as the prosecuting attorney. The sensational trial that ensues finds them sitting at opposing sides of the courtroom -- and the dinner table. Not only do Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy throw comedic sparks , but their exquisite verbal jousting was scripted by the outstanding husband-wife team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. The result is one of Hollywood's greatest co... • Running Time: 101 min.
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Or call TicketFly at 877.987.6487.
Pianist Richard Glazier, a leading authority on the music of George Gershwin and the star of two award-winning PBS television specials, brings his new concert program, “Great Movies, Great Music” to the Napa Valley Opera House. Musical selections include the theme from “Auntie Mame”, two themes from Alfred Hitchcock's “Vertigo”, a “My Fair Lady” medley, “So In Love” by Cole Porter, and Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”. Known as a master storyteller, Glazier combines fascinating movie history and backstage stories, rare audio/video presentations and brilliant piano performances in an exciting show you won’t want to miss.
When describing Cherish the Ladies, the critics say it best – “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” The Boston Globe, “An astonishing array of virtuosity,” The Washington Post, “Expands the annals of Irish music in America…the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” The New York Times – and for the past twenty five years, Cherish the Ladies have proven themselves worthy to live up to these accolades and in doing so have become one of the most engaging ensembles in the history of Irish music.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded m...
• Running Time: 101 min.
"The music says it all. Mozart is cool." So said the self-confessed "opera ignoramus" Doris Dorrie before she grabbed hold of one of the sacred cows of the operatic repertoire and transformed it into a "hippie musical." Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte ("Thus Do They All") was first staged in Vienna in 1790; it is a timeless opera, one that in fact became increasingly popular in the twentieth century as accusations of its triviality were replaced by greater recognition of its depths. Mozart's delight in juggling the comic and the serious is on full display here, and the opera's adaptability is proof of its strength. Under the motto "To cheat on your partner or not, that is the question," Dorrie stamped an originality on the work which impressed even the skeptical critics.
• In Italian with English Subtitles
• Running time: 203 minutes incl. 15 minute intermission
John Pizzarelli has had a multi-faceted career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader. Brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass, Larry Fuller on keyboards, and Anthony Tedesco on drums will comprise the quartet on-stage for an evening of fine jazz. This time around, he’ll be joined by his wife; the dynamic vocalist Jessica Molaskey.
Called the Simon & Garfunkel of Hawaii, HAPA returns to the Opera House! One of the most successful Hawaiian music groups in recent history, HAPA is an acoustic duo consisting of the guitarist-singers Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau. If you miss the islands, don’t miss this show!
Conceived from vocalist Ravid Kahalani's vision, Yemen Blues mixes music of Yemen and West Africa with contemporary grooves from funk to mambo and the deep soul of old chants. Conjuring up a rich and diverse aural palette with the use of percussion, oud, horns, and strings, Yemen Blues coexists in both the past and present, at once timeless and modern.
Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY ethic which has resulted in the sale of over 60,000 copies of her self-released albums and a devoted social media following.
A robust, down to earth, tune-filled opera based on a favorite comedy by Shakespeare. Flamboyant Sir John Falstaff, sometimes known as Plump Jack, larger than life, hard up as usual for cash, meets his match when he rashly sets out to woo two spunky women with identical love letters and famously winds up in a laundry basket.
