Summer 2008 Main Stage Performance
Thursday & Saturday
July 24 and 26, 2008, 7:30 PM
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May 9th, 2008
“Romance & Revelry in Fair Verona”
The Marriott has been secured for PORTopera’s annual Dinner/Dance & Auction on Friday, May 9th, which this year will celebrate and support our 2008 mainstage production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Cocktails are at 6:30 pm, followed by a sumptuous northern Italian dinner. The Bob Charest Band, which rocked the house last year, will once again play for dinner and dancing.
Too Many Sopranos
Five Summer Perfomances by MEA Young Artists

In 2008, the Maine’s Emerging Artists program will present Too Many Sopranos, a comic opera in English by Edwin Penhorwood. Directed by Ellen Chickering, there are five performances in Maine and New Hampshire.
Photos by Martha Mickles Photography




2005's "Carmen" (Kate Aldrich) and Don Jose (Richard Troxell).
Lovers Rosina (Lauren McNeese) and Almaviva (Victor Ryan Robertson) in "Il
Barbieri di Siviglia," 2007.
PORTopera's first-rate chorus in the chaotic end of Act 1, "Il Barbieri di
Siviglia," 2007. Russ Burleigh Photo. 