Upcoming Events
Date: April 11, 2010
Location: New York City Opera
Details:
Join PFO friends in New York for NYC Opera's for a performance of Handel's opera Partenope. Excellent group tickets are available through PFO for $75. Please reserve by January 15, 2010.
Date: May 16, 2010
Location: The Princeton Seminary, Princeton, NJ
Details:
Lecture by John Burkhalter on Musical practices in ancient Mexico and Peru and their impact on later operas, will begin at 3:00 p.m. John will bring some of pre-columbian musical instruments from his collection as well. This promises to be a most interesting and informative afternoon. Join us for a reception to follow.
Location: Private Princeton residence
Details:
Cori Ellison, Dramaturg of New York City Opera, will host a lecture on Handel's opera Partenope, which is being presented by NYC Opera. Tickets for the presentation are $30 for members, $35 for friends and guests. Invitations will be mailed in January. Join us for a delightful afternoon.
Location: Ten Thousand Villiages, Princeton Shopping Center
Details:
Ten Thousand Villiages & Princeton Friends of Opera present a shopping "Opera"tunity for PFO members and friends on Wednesday, Dec. 9 from 3-7pm.
Shop, enjoy cider and cookies and support two worthwhile organizations.
Ten Thousand Villages is a fair trade store offering beautiful handcrafted jewelry, personal accessories, home decorative items, musical instruments, toys, hand made paper, baskets, table linens, ceramics and collectable items, tea, coffee and chocolate. Your fair trade purchase helps improve the lives of thousands of artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
10% of all sales go to PFO.
Ten Thousand Villiages
Princeton Shopping Center
301 N. Harrison Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 683-4464
Location: Local Movie Theatre TBA
Details:
Join us for Puccini'sTurandot. Tentative plans for supper afterward. As of 10/26 tickets were still available. Check PFO Meet-ups for more information.
Location: Hopewell Valley Vineyard
Details:
PFO's Wine and Dinner Buffet "Italy Comes to Hopewell" will feature delicious Italian food and local Hopewell Valley Vineyard wines. Noted tenor, Bob Guarino, will entertain with a selection of Neapolitan songs and arias. PFO member, Bob McMahan, accordionist, will perform Italian favorites. The party begins at 6:00 p.m. and ends at 9:00 p.m. Look for invitations in the mail after Labor Day.
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Location: At homes of Carol King and Carol Baron
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Join us for a Pot Luck Supper and viewing of opera video Tales of Hoffman at the homes of Carol King and Carol Baron.
Other nights to be scheduled.
Location: Home of Carol and Barry Baron
Details:
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Join us for a delicious reception at the home of PFO Membership Chair Carol Baron. Update of PFO activities for the coming year. Special guest, Christopher Arneson will talk about Westminster's successful summer 2009 CoOPERAtive program.