Ravens Cry Theatre

FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT Fri-Thurs (May 18-24) at 7:30pm

Raven's Cry Theatre — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:02:25 +0000

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Running Time: 124 min
Web Site: www.tomandviolet.com
Rated: 14A with sexually suggestive scenes, coarse language

Cast: Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt, Alison Brie and Rhys Ifans
Director: Nicholas Stoller Screenplay: Jason Segel & Nicholas Stoller

Synopsis: The director and writer/star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall reteam for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple, Jason Segel and Emily Blunt, keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle.

CHIMPANZEE Sat-Tues (May 19-22) at 2pm

Raven's Cry Theatre — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:23:18 +0000

Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 78 min
Web Site: www.disney.com/chimpanzee
Rated: G with no advisory

Cast: Narrated by Tim Allen
Director: Alastair Fothergil.
Synopsis:Disneynature takes moviegoers deep into the forests of Africa with Chimpanzee, a new True Life Adventure introducing an adorable baby chimp named Oscar and his entertaining bonds and individual triumph. Oscar’s playful curiosity and zest for discovery showcase the intelligence and ingenuity of some of the most extraordinary personalities in the animal kingdom. Working together, Oscar’s chimpanzee family—including his mom and the group’s savvy leader—navigates the complex territory of the forest. The world is a playground for little Oscar and his fellow young chimps, who’d rather make mayhem than join their parents for an afternoon nap. But when Oscar’s family is confronted by a rival band of chimps, he is left to fend for himself until a surprising ally steps in and changes his life forever.

MEN IN BLACK 3 Fri-Thurs (May 25-31) 7:30pm plus Sun (May 27) 2pm

Raven's Cry Theatre — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:07:47 +0000

Genre: Sci-fi Action
Running Time: 106 min
Web Site: www.meninblack.com
Rated: PG with violence and coarse language

Cast: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenplay: Etan Cohen, based on the Malibu Comic by Lowell Cunningham

Synopsis: In Men in Black 3, Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back… in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K’s life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him — secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA June 3 (Sun) 2:30pm

Raven's Cry Theatre — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:00:28 +0000

The Coast Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Edette Gagné, presents “THERE IS A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING!”

To round out the Coast Symphony Orchestra’s season, Artistic Director, Edette Gagné, decided it fitting to present an entire concert of “firsts”. In collaboration with the Orchestra’s board of directors, Edette has built an exciting program to be presented June 3 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre.Opening with Manuel da Falla’s “First Spanish Dance” from his opera – La Vida Breve – the percussionists will steal the show with Val Anderson playing the castanet solo. This will be followed with “Concertino for flute and orchestra” by Cécile Chaminade. Featuring Nina Haedrich as the solo flutist, this work marks the first time the Coast Symphony Orchestra has ever performed a work by a female composer – but hopefully not the last! To round out the start of the program, the orchestra will perform the closing movements [Berceuse and Finale] from Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite” – the first of the famous Diagalev ballet commissions.Finishing off the first half of the program, Ms. Adriana Lebedovich – one of the youngest members of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra – will be joining the CSO as guest violinist for Mozart’s rarely performed Violin Concerto no. 1. This marks the first time the Coast Symphony Orchestra has featured a soloist from outside of the province and the first time the CSO has performed a Mozart violin concerto. Ms. Lebedovich will be playing cadenzas created by her friend and mentor, James Ehnes. Worth noting that this is the first time anyone besides James Ehnes has played these exciting virtuoso sections of the concerto.

After intermission, the Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform Kalinnikov’s Symphony no. 1. A lush four-movement symphony that is filled with Russian Romantic harmonies, memorable melodies and a wonderful duet for harp and English Horn as the focal point of the slow movement. To round out their show of firsts, the CSO will leave the audience tapping their toes with Schubert’s first March Militaire.

There will be a pre-concert chat 30 minutes before the performance

Tickets: General Admission $15 Child (under 12) $5

Available at Gaia’s Fair Trade, Laedeli, Strait Music, Bluewaters Books

Information: Elaine at 604-886-9432 or Coast Cultural Alliance Calendar www.suncoaststarts.com

BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

Raven's Cry Theatre — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:13:02 +0000

Genre: Comedy Drama
Running Time: 124 min
Web Site: www.foxsearchlight.com/thebestexoticmarigoldhotel

Rated: G with coarse language

Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Dev Patel

Director: John Madden
Screenplay: Ol Parker and Deborah Moggach

Synopsis: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to “outsource” their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past

Met Opera: Donizetti’s L’ELISIR D’AMORE Oct 13 (Sat) 10am

Raven's Cry Theatre — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:21:38 +0000

Oct 13 (Sat), 2012 10 am

Conductor: Maurizio Benini
Production: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Cast: Anna Netrebko (Adina), Matthew Polenzani (Nemorino), Mariusz Kwiecien (Belcore), Ambrogio Maestri (Doctor Dulcamara)

The Live in HD season begins October 13 with a new production of Donizetti’s comic gem L’Elisir d’Amore, directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Maurizio Benini. Anna Netrebko makes her Met role debut as the beautiful landowner Adina, with Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino, the simple peasant who falls in love with her. Mariusz Kwiecien sings Adina’s arrogant fiancé, Sergeant Belcore, and Ambrogio Maestri will sing the role of the magic potion-peddling Doctor Dulcamara. “L’Elisir d’Amore is kind of two operas at the same time,” Sher says. “It’s an opera that’s a great entertainment, and it’s an opera that has something else happening underneath. It’s informed by when in Italian history it was written—you can see the early stirrings of a cry for independence.”

Cast subject to change without notification
Runtime: 3 hours 2 minutes.
Tickets: $24 (General) and $20 (Senior 65 yrs +). Call 604-885-4597 (after Sept 1, 2012) to have yours held for pickup.

The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor The Neubauer Family Foundation Transmission of The Met: Live in HD in Canada is made possible thanks to the generosity of Jacqueline and Paul G. Desmarais Sr. Global corporate sponsorship of The Met Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg The HD Broadcasts are supported by Toll Brothers, America’s Luxury Home Builder

Met Opera: Verdi’s OTELLO Oct 27 (Sat) 10am

Raven's Cry Theatre — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:25:37 +0000

Oct 27 (Sat), 2012 10 am

Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Production: Elijah Moshinsky
Cast: Renée Fleming (Desdemona), Johan Botha (Otello), Michael Fabiano (Cassio), Falk Struckmann (Iago)

Verdi’s towering masterpiece, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy, makes its first Live in HD appearance. Semyon Bychkov conducts an extraordinary cast led by Johan Botha in the title role of the jealous Moor of Venice, opposite Renée Fleming in one of her greatest roles, Otello’s innocent wife Desdemona. Falk Struckmann sings Iago, Otello’s disloyal ensign, and Michael Fabiano is the captain Cassio.

Cast subject to change without notification
Runtime: 3 hours 27 minutes.
Tickets: $24 (General) and $20 (Senior 65 yrs +). Call 604-885-4597 (after Sept 1, 2012) to have yours held for pickup.

Met Opera: Ades’s THE TEMPEST Nov 10, 2012 (Sat) 10am

Raven's Cry Theatre — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:30:26 +0000

Met Premiere
Nov 10 (Sat), 2012

Conductor: Thomas Adès
Libretto: Meredith Oakes
Production: Robert Lepage
Set Designer: Jasmine Catudal
Cast: Audrey Luna (Ariel), Isabel Leonard (Miranda), Iestyn Davies (Trinculo), Alek Shrader (Ferdinand), Alan Oke (Caliban), William Burden (King of Naples), Toby Spence (Antonio), Simon Keenlyside (Prospero)

British composer Thomas Adès makes his company debut conducting the Met premiere of his opera The Tempest, which has been widely praised as a modern masterpiece. Robert Lepage’s innovative production recreates the interior of the La Scala opera house as the magical island venue for the otherworldly arts of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan. Simon Keenlyside sings Prospero, as he did to critical acclaim in the opera’s world premiere at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. “The Tempest is an extraordinary, exquisite composition.” Lepage says. “The opera captures the magic of Shakespeare’s last play. It is a box full of magic tricks, which makes it a gift for me and for the designers.” The opera also stars Isabel Leonard as Prospero’s daughter, Miranda; Toby Spence as his brother, Antonio; Audrey Luna as the spirit Ariel; Iestyn Davies as the jester, Trinculo; Alek Shrader in his Met debut as the noble Ferdinand; Alan Oke as the monstrous Caliban; and William Burden as the King of Naples. The libretto, by Meredith Oakes, is adapted from the original text of Shakespeare’s play.
Cast subject to change without notification
Runtime: 3 hours 30 minutes, approximately.
Tickets: $24 (General) and $20 (Senior 65 yrs +).
Call 604-885-4597 (after Sept 1, 2012) to have yours held for pickup.

Met Opera: Mozart’s LA CLEMENZA DI TITO Dec 1 (Sat) 2012 10am

Raven's Cry Theatre — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:35:24 +0000

Dec 1 (Sat), 2012

Conductor: Harry Bicket
Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Set & Costume Designer: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Cast: Lucy Crowe (Servilia), Barbara Frittoli (Vitellia), El?na Garan?a (Sesto), Kate Lindsey (Annio), Giuseppe Filianoti (Tito)

Mozart’s final Italian opera, La Clemenza di Tito, features a charismatic cast conducted by Baroque specialist Harry Bicket and led by Giuseppe Filianoti as the title character, a Roman emperor. Barbara Frittoli is the vengeful Vitellia, daughter of a deposed ruler, whose plan to assassinate Tito is complicated by her romance with the young nobleman Sesto, sung by El?na Garan?a. Kate Lindsey and Lucy Crowe co-star as the young lovers Annio and Servilia. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s stylized production is one of the legendary director’s most acclaimed stagings.

Cast subject to change without notification
Runtime: 3 hours 13 minutes, approximately.
Tickets: $24 (General) and $20 (Senior 65 yrs +). Call 604-885-4597 (after Sept 1, 2012) to have yours held for pickup.

Met Opera: Verdi’s UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Dec 8 (Sat) 10 am

Raven's Cry Theatre — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:39:37 +0000

Dec 8 (Sat), 2012 at 10 am.

Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Production: David Alden
Set Designer: Paul Steinberg
Cast: Karita Mattila (Amelia), Kathleen Kim (Oscar), Stephanie Blythe (Ulrica), Marcelo Álvarez (Gustavo III), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Anckarström)

Verdi’s vivid drama of jealousy and vengeance will be seen in a new production by acclaimed opera director David Alden, returning to the Met for the first time in more than 20 years. Fabio Luisi conducts his first Met performances of the opera, which stars Karita Mattila in her Met role debut as Amelia, Marcelo Álvarez as Gustavo III, Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Anckarström, Stephanie Blythe as the fortuneteller Ulrica, and Kathleen Kim as the page Oscar. Alden, whose production is set in a dreamlike, early 20^th-century Swedish environment, says that “Un Ballo in Maschera is one of Verdi’s greatest and most brilliant scores, with a variety of different colors. It alternates between the light and the intensely melodramatic. Verdi pulls it all together with unbelievable theatrical energy. Ballo is theatrical dynamite.”

Cast subject to change without notification
Runtime: 3 hours 54 minutes, approximately.
Tickets: $24 (General) and $20 (Senior 65 yrs +). Call 604-885-4597 (after Sept 1, 2012) to have yours held for pickup.