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Did someone say free opera?

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Don’t miss Opera Hub’s production of the rarely produced “Der Zwerg” this weekend.

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The Docket 2/5-2/9

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Theater Whistler in Dark‘s production of One Flea Spare opens this weekend @ the Factory Theatre. Tickets $10-$20. On the last day of their quarantine, a wealthy couple’s house is invaded by two strangers – a sailor and a girl who might not be what she seems. And so another month of quarantine begins. Watched [...]

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The Docket 1/14-1/20

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Friday night @ 8:00, Cantata Singers gives a concert at First Church Cambridge, continuing in their season-long celebration of Heinrich Schütz. Also on the program are Harbison and Duruflé. $17-$52, students 50% off, seniors $5 off. Friday night also marks the start of the Harvard Film Archive’s Alain Resnais retrospective. They’re kicking off with the [...]

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The Docket 1/8-1/10

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Friday night at 8:00, Commonwealth Opera stages Così fan tutte, Mozart’s hilarious, spectacular, and often called sexist opera whose title eludes translation, at the Central Square YMCA. Tickets are $30. Friday night in Jordan at 8:00, Emanuel Ax gives a Celebrity Series piano recital of Schumann and Chopin. Tickets going for $45-$66. Boston Chamber Music [...]

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The Docket: New Year’s Eve

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For me, New Year’s Eve was between Boston Baroque’s Mozart and Cimarosa double-bill and the Boston Pops concert with Amanda Palmer, because First Night is kind of for the kids, if I saw Dane Cook I don’t think I’d make it to 2010, and I’m not really interested in pretending I’m a celebrity for a [...]

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The Docket 12/11-12/13

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The Slutcracker (@ the Somerville Theatre) and The Christmas Revels (@ Sanders) open this weekend. I’ll be checking out both. The Brattle hosts the local premier of La Danse, a new documentary on the Paris Opera Ballet, Friday @ 7:00, with Director Fred Wiseman in person. (trailer here) Also, a lot of screenings of It’s [...]

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The Docket 12/04-12/07

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Plenty of freebies. The Brattle Theatre celebrates a James Mason Centennial with double features of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and Lolita (1962) Friday through Sunday. The ART continues with the free side of its Shakespeare Exploded festival with a panel discussion on Shakespeare and contemporary culture at the Loeb on Saturday, 11:00 a.m. [...]