Single tickets are now on sale for a couple of summer music events in Seattle: Seattle Opera’s production of the Richard Wagner opera “Lohengrin” and the Tony Award-winning musical “Hairspray” at The 5th Avenue Theatre.
Seattle Opera opens its 2004-05 season July 31 with the first of eight productions of “Lohengrin” at McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. The company has earned an international reputation for its Wagner productions, notably Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle. “Lohengrin” is considered by many to be Wagner’s most accessible opera, a dreamlike tale set in medieval Germany in which a mysterious knight comes to defend the honor of Elsa, the opera’s heroine.
The cast includes Seattle’s own Jane Eaglen, one of the world’s great Wagnerian sopranos, and marks the Seattle debut of Dutch tenor Albert Bonnema in the title role.
Performances are July 31-Aug 21. Single tickets are $47-$123, 206-389-7676 or 800-426-1619, www.seattleopera.org.
“Hairspray”: Get out the poodle skirts and saddle shoes. “Hairspray,” the Broadway musical based on the raucous John Waters rock ‘n’ roll movie of the same name, comes back to Seattle for performances Sept. 7-26 at The 5th Avenue.
“Hairspray” premiered at The 5th Avenue in June 2002, went straight to Broadway and won eight Tony Awards in 2003.
Single tickets go on sale now for this national touring production. Tickets range from $22 to $72, on sale at Ticketmaster outlets, 206-292-ARTS, www.ticketmaster. com.
The 5th Avenue will host a Spotlight Night preview of the musical, open free to the public Monday at 7 p.m. at the theater, 1308 Fifth Ave. Information: www.5thavenuetheatre.org/.
“Silents, Please!”: Five classic silent films starring the great Rudolph Valentino will be shown in July and August at the historic Everett Theatre in downtown Everett.
The screenings will be accompanied by organist Dennis James on the theater’s 16-rank pipe organ.
The movies are among Valentino’s greatest: “The Eagle,” “The Conquering Power,” “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “The Sheik” and “The Son of the Sheik.” They will be shown on Tuesday nights July 6 through Aug. 3. Tickets are $5 to $11 at the box office, 425-258-6766.
Happy birthday, Cary: The Seattle Art Museum celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of film legend Cary Grant by showing six of Grant’s witty screen comedies July 8 through Aug. 12 at the downtown Seattle museum.
The films include “The Awful Truth,” “Holiday,” “The Talk of the Town,” “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer” and “Monkey Business.”
Among his co-stars are some of film’s greatest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Jean Arthur, Peter Lorre, Myrna Loy, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe.
Series tickets are $29; 206-654-3121. Information: www.seattleartmuseum.org/.
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